Connecticut Pitchoff

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Join us to watch pitches from universities and colleges all around the state of Connecticut! You'll have the opportunity to see more than 10 student teams pitch for 5 minutes each. Teams will come from Fairfield University, Quinnipiac University, Trinity College, and Yale University. See teams pitch, enjoy appetizers and drinks, and meet others in the Connecticut entrepreneurial ecosystem. Check out the  teams that  will be pitching below:

 

Yale University

Cimu

Kaci Xie

Cimu helps fashion companies reduce returns by connecting consumers with easy, accessible clothing alterations. We envision a world where no clothes end up in landfills, and we're starting by re-directing garments back to consumers' closets where they belong.

Vialista Foundation

Nana Adenu-Mensah, Philip Ratnasamy, Katelyn Rudisill

To improve job accessibility and economic well-being in a low-income urban community in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, we aim to establish a digital skills education program with an English learning parallel application. This intervention will enable high school dropouts and graduates to learn skills that facilitate employment in the corporate sector.

 

Trinity College

Xassa

Enrico Rodrigues Buoro

Xassa is a Brazilian cocktail brand. Crafted out of sugar cane made Chachaça, honey, and cinnamon. The idea of facing the big brands in the beverage industry is what inspired the founder to create the product.

Adhere

Tommy Giandomenico

Adhere is a digital software platform that combines ride-hailing services with advertisement opportunities in order to bridge the gap between supply, demand, and price points for passengers and drivers in the ride-hailing industry.

Born2Serve Agri-Business

Enock Niyonkuru

Born2Serve Agri-Business is a chili-pepper-based agribusiness based in Rwanda, where we train local farmers in modern farming practices by example and export fresh chili pepper to European countries.

 

Quinnipiac University

Neater Notes

Zavier Smith & Kinshu Gupta 

NeaterNotes is an app that takes your regular handwritten notes and converts them into very neat, aesthetically pleasing, stylized digital notes!

Campus Cars

Tess Rose & Kat Storey

Campus Cars provides Safety both on and off campus with peer ride-sharing.

 

Fairfield University

GreenIRR

Celine King

GreenIRR is a SaaS offering that provides portfolio managers access to low-latency environmental data on their portfolio companies.

quantifAI

Mariana Antaya

quantifAI is an AI-based cryptocurrency portfolio selection, recommendation, and optimization software for financial advisors.