Welcome to the 6th Annual Pitch Night!

Pitch Night 2024

Nov 21, 2024. Union League Club

The Future of Innovation

Are you ready to be inspired by groundbreaking ideas and the future of innovation? Join us for an unforgettable evening featuring 5-10 of the most promising rising startups that are pushing the boundaries in technology, innovation, and creative solutions.

The 6th Annual Pitch Night brings together entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and startup enthusiasts for a night of networking, learning, and opportunity.

Event Highlights

Pitch Presentations

Hear from 5-10 rising companies that are redefining industries with their cutting-edge technologies and game-changing solutions.

Keynote Speakers

Learn from renowned industry leaders, startup founders, and successful entrepreneurs as they share their insights on building businesses and fostering innovation.

Networking Opportunities

Meet with venture capitalists, startup accelerators, incubators, and other key players in the startup ecosystem. Build relationships that could help take your business to the next level!

Startup Showcase

Get an exclusive look at emerging startups in tech, health, green energy, and more. These companies are primed to solve tomorrow’s biggest challenges.

Our Speakers

Ryan Walsh

Valqari

Valqari is an award-winning robotics & drone startup that’s transforming the future of last-mile and medical delivery with their patented autonomous drone delivery systems.
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Valqari is an award-winning robotics & drone startup that’s transforming the future of last-mile delivery and drone logistics with our patented autonomous drone delivery systems. Our mission is to use our technology to revolutionize the world by closing food deserts, increasing access to medical care, and making the chore of running errands a thing of the past.

Valqari’s proprietary point-to-point drone delivery system covers virtually any variation of a drone landing pad, and is protected by 34 granted patents in the US, China, Canada, the EU, the UK, Switzerland, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, and others, with an additional 37 pending applications.

John Sheets Jr.

Patheon Vision

Pantheon Vision is a medical device company creating a bioengineered corneal implant and a procedure to treat corneal blindness globally.
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Pantheon Vision treats and cures corneal blindness globally, by creating a bioengineered corneal implant and a procedure. Corneal blindness affects over 13M people worldwide, growing by 500,000 annually. The current solution is to replace the diseased/damaged cornea with a human donor cornea (keratoplasty). Unfortunately, while this is the current solution, it is not ideal. 52% of patients after a successful surgery are still legally blind and 50% are rejected by year 5.

Pantheon Vision has created a synthetic implant made from material with proven ophthalmic biocompatibility that will yield precise visual outcomes. This implant will also have a long-term shelf life, convenient shipping and storage requirements, while providing a durable solution. The solution includes instruments for a complete surgical kit simplifying the procedure while
assuring consistent results.

Danielle Drabkin

Pear Chef

Pear Chef is a tech-enabled food service company disrupting the way food and beverage is brought on-site into urban buildings.
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Launched in 2019, Pear Chef has re-imagined the way food & beverage is distributed into urban buildings. Our mission is : no friction, no fees and no wait for fresh, chef-made food. We are currently using RFID tech enabled smart fridges with “real time” inventory. This allows users to view “what’s in their fridge” in real time while in the comfort of their home or office building.

We are improving the distribution channel for how end-users receive food while simultaneously improving the carbon footprint, eliminating the need for food delivery.

Dr. Shamim Shakibai &
Dr. Joshua Lewis

MyPreOp, Inc.

MyPreOp was founded to make the preop process faster, smarter, and digitized. Leveraging smart technology, AI, patient engagement, and at home testing to make the process smoother for everyone.
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MyPreOp was founded to make the preop process faster, smarter, and digitized. The current process for clearing a patient for surgery is disorganized and chaotic. MyPreOp leverages smart technology, AI, patient engagement, and at home testing to make the process smoother for all stakeholders involved. They are the only telehealth platform in North America that specializes in pre-ops.

Due to this specialization, they are A) able to see patients much more quickly than they would ordinarily be seen, and B) providing in-depth and standardized care by staying up-to-date on all of the latest preop recommendations. Our mission is to standardize and digitize the preoperative encounter, making a previously complicated process more efficient and safer.

Steve Subar

MatFresher

MatFresher transforms yoga hygiene with UV-C technology, efficiently sanitizing mats to eliminate bacteria, viruses, and fungi, addressing key challenges in fitness economics.
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MatFresher is late-stage startup capitalizing on the $12.7b mindful movement market with emphasis on the largest segment – yoga. We have brought to market a fitnesstech service to monetize the ~300m yoga classes sold annually in the US, and address two key challenges in the fitness industry: (1) unit economics and (2) hygiene.

The MatFresher is an advanced fitnesstech system designed to sanitize yoga mats quickly and efficiently. The innovative machine uses UV-C light technology to deactivate and destroy 99.9% of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that grow on yoga mats.

John Ireland

NTP Technologies

NTP Technologies was founded in 2021 to develop plasma technologies in agriculture, beginning with nitrogen-enriched water or NEWfertilizer.
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NTP Technologies offers an alternative to traditional synthetic fertilizers for small-scale farmers making it safer for our food chain and the soil. NTP developed. Their flagship system creates sustainable, affordable, salt-free nitrates from air and electricity by creating on-site nitrogen fertilizer production technology using non-thermal plasma. The NTP platform will offer additional plasma technologies for seed and post-harvest treatments.

NTP Technologies was founded in 2021 to develop plasma technologies in agriculture, beginning with nitrogen-enriched water or NEWfertilizer. Our target market is farmers who grow 365 days a year and use an irrigation system. Our seed treatment technology will enhance germination and our post-harvest system will extend shelf life.

Our 2023 Speakers