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HER GENIUS PITCH

Overview

In honor of International Women’s Day, Impact Ventures host HERGenius Pitch Competition, a celebration of brilliant female & female identifying entrepreneurs. This “shark-tank” style vent will be live streamed on March 8th, 2022 at 6pm – 8pm.

Program Eligibility

  • Located in North Texas (Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton and surrounding Counties)
  • Women, Black, Hispanic, People of color, LGBTQ, or Veterans
  • Must be for profit
  • Must be growth oriented (employer firms, B2B, B2G, models): scalable small businesses, consumer products or goods
  • Stage:
    • Early-stage (post rev/early adopters, at least $100k+ annual revenue)
    • Growth (product market fit, $250k+ annual revenue)
  • Industry: Agnostic

Program Benefits

  • 1st Place – $5,000
  • 2nd Place – $2,500
  • 3rd Place – $1,000
  • Each will also receive invite to Spring 22 Accelerator
  • Each will also receive invite to IV inclusive Capital Fund
  • Each will also receive IV Perks Packages valued at $50,000

Program Timeline

  • Applications close December 15, 2021.
  • Invitations to Pitch will be sent January 3, 2021
  • Pitch coaching starts January 12, 2022
  • Finalists pitch in an elimination round February 9, 2022
    • Top 3 competitors pitch live on March 8, 2022

**Dates are subject to change**

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