Pitch to Launch 2025
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Pitch to Launch 2025

By Rajesh Kavasseri and Dwaine Chapel

Overview

Get ready to turn your ideas into reality at Pitch to Launch 2025 - where dreams meet action!

Join innovative teams from USD, DSU, and SDSU as they pitch their technologies that might shape the future!

  • Food-tech & Ag-tech innovations
  • Event management & booking solutions
  • Cybersecurity, fraud verification & anti-counterfeiting tech
  • AI-powered dental diagnostics
  • Plant genome engineering
  • Autonomous robotics & AI for inspection, mapping, and crop analysis

Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, technologist, student, or community member, or just curious — this event is for YOU.

Meet Aspiring Founders & Form New Partnerships: Connect with innovators, angels, VCs, industry leaders, and ecosystem partners looking to build what’s next.

Discover the essentials of customer discovery, product-market fit, funding strategy, and go-to-market execution.

Teams compete for up to $5,000 in in-kind prizes, including:

  • SBIR/STTR support up to $3,000
  • $1,000 in legal/LLC formation support
  • $1,000 in back-office + admin support

Come watch, support, network — and be inspired. Join us and see it happen.

Brought to you by the SDSU I-Corps Team and the SDSU Research Park.

See you there!


Category: Business, Startups

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Highlights

  • 4 hours
  • In person

Location

2301 Research Park Way

2301 Research Park Way

Brookings, SD 57006

How do you want to get there?

Agenda
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Pitch (9 teams, from SDSU, USD and DSU)

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Judging & Mini Break with Small Bites

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Award Announcements and Social Networking

Organized by

Rajesh Kavasseri and Dwaine Chapel

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Free
Dec 10 · 1:00 PM CST