Funding Universe

This event is all about Social Entrepreneurs. See profit-based social ventures who aim to improve our community pitch to a panel of experts.

This Event is Tomorrow!: RSVP HERE

Panel of Judges

• Todd Manwaring — BYU Director of the Social Entrepreneurship business plan competition
• Fraser Nelson — founding Executive Director of the Community Foundation of Utah
• Steve Grizzell — Managing Director of InnoVentures Capital Partners

Attendance & Lunch are free

Attendance is free. You’ll learn how investors think, meet the hottest start-ups, and have a lot of fun. You’ll also help decide the winner of the event by investing your monopoly money in the business of your choice.

When & where

November 4
11:30 – 1:30 pm MDT
Lone Peak & Red Pine Rooms
Karen Gail Miller Conference Center
9750 S 300 W
Sandy, UT

What: LivePitch & Networking Event

Who: Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists & Service Providers

When: Tuesday November 18, 2008

Time: 3 – 5:00 pm

Where:USU Innovation Campus — Calibration Building, 489 E. 1650 N.,  North Logan, UT

Cost: Attendance is Free. Pitching requires a $25 application fee & $50 presentation fee if selected

The Utah Entrepreneur & Angel Summit 2008, and

The Logan LivePitch Event

LivePitch is for entrepreneurs who would like to present a business plan to a large group of investors, critics, and peers. You get four minutes to spill the beans and are rewarded with sturdy feedback from a panel of investors as well as from the audience at-large. It is a remarkable experience, whether to present or spectate.

The Utah Entrepreneur & Angel Summit 2008 is a Global Entrepreneurship Week Utah activity, which recognizes entrepreneurs as ‘change agents’ for the economy while bringing young, exuberant entrepreneurs and more seasoned serial entrepreneurs together with investors to inspire, connect, and mentor.

The theme for Global Entrepreneurship Week Utah is “Unleashing ideas: Igniting High-Growth Entrepreneurship in Utah.” The week is highlighted by the Utah Angel Summit, a day-long entrepreneur conference bringing entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists, and experts in numerous core service industries together to help generate ideas, build high-growth companies and encourage and promote entrepreneurship in Utah.

Don’t miss it. If you are a Utah Valley entrepreneur growing a new business, or have a new idea, this will be the place to find people and resources to make you a success.

The Summit will be held on Thursday, November 20, 2008 from 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. You will find it at Sandy’s South Towne Exposition Center. The address is 9575 S. State Street Sandy, UT 84070.

The LivePitch event will be held Tuesday November 18, 2008 from 3-5:00 p.m. at the USU Innovation Campus — Calibration Building. The address is 489 E. 1650 N., North Logan, UT.

The event was held at the Open Source Technology Center on the Novell campus. Over 60 people attended with six investors comprising a panel of judges. Investors were treated to a review of five up-and-coming business opportunities, and entrepreneurs were given a preview of what it is like to present a business to potential investors.

As a participant, I found it to be an extremely valuable experience.

The five companies who pitched were:

• ListPipe, a new SEO company focused on providing custom content through an online subscription service.
• Izatt International, a local development group focusing on iPhone applications.
• Gruvie, a social utility that enables you to wrangle all your social networking accounts into a single login.
• Lignin Bio Fuels, an alternative fuel company that produces transportation fuel out of non-edible biomass.
• Estamar Strategy, a consulting group managing business investment opportunities.

After the presentations, the audience voted for their favorite companies with ‘Monopoly-style’ dollars. Two companies with the most amount of ‘investment cash’ were selected as ‘winners’ and were awarded $500 in-kind consulting services from Funding Universe.

The two winners chosen by the audience were: ListPipe and Gruvie. See photos below.

In addition to our appreciate for event hosts Funding Universe, a special thanks to the event sponsors, which included Dashboard Accountants, The Open Source Technology Center, Fibernet, and Grow Utah Ventures.

The next LivePitch event has not been announced; stay tuned for information as it becomes available.

Presenters receive votes in the form of faux 'investment dollars'

Contact Funding Universe for more information.

Click Here to RSVP, Register, or get more information.

LivePitch is a business luncheon hosted by Funding Universe wherein you have the opportunity to rub shoulders with local entrepreneurs and investors. Funding Universe selects up to five applicants to pitch their business opportunity to a panel of experts, and the attendees of the luncheon. Presenters have four minutes to make their pitch, and are offered feedback. Pitching companies must pay a $25 application fee and an additional $50 if they are selected to present.

Anyone can RSVP as an attendee, and there is an audience participation element; Audience members receive $100 of play “Monopoly” money to “invest” in their favorite company pitch. After all of the presentations, the audience will place their monopoly cash into the bowl of their favorite LivePitch presentation.

After all of the presentations, 2 winning presenters will be announced based on the amount of “monopoly cash” that is “invested” (one by the panel of expert investors and the other by the audience).

Note that this is a ‘LivePitch’ event, and not a SpeedPitching Luncheon. LivePitch is not a fund raising event. Please do not apply to pitch or attend with the expectation that investment offers will be a natural or immediate outflow of this event.

SpeedPitch, on the other hand, is targeted toward connecting entrepreneurs and investors.

Details:

• What: LivePitch & Networking Event
• Who: Entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists & service providers
• When: Tuesday September 30, 2008
• Where: Novell OSTC
  building A, rooms 6 & 7
  1800 Novell Place
  Provo, Utah 84606
  (Westside of campus)
• Time: 12 noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch is included free
• Cost: Attendance is Free. Pitching requires a $25 application fee & $50 presentation fee if selected