The Pitch 16S On May 19th!

Twenty people will pitch their big ideas in two minutes or less.  Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges and the audience. Four winners receive up to $3000 from DEN and design/development support from the DALI Lab.  The Pitch is a fun, fast-paced event.  Show support for the students, faculty and staff who are pitching, and cast your vote for the winners!  Food will be served.  Winners will be announced at the end of the event.

Winners are selected based on originality of the idea, potential impact, feasibility of the idea, strength of the team, quality of the pitch.  Hope to see you on Thursday, May 19th at 7 PM in Filene Auditorium.

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Incente Wins Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Forum

Hanover start-up and DALI partner, Incente, won the 2016 Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Forum StartUp Competition. Incente’s award-winning product, Proxi, is a digital toolbox for mental health clinicians.  Incente says that Proxi “leverages dynamic and intuitive technologies to enhance the delivery of mental healthcare.”

 

A DALI project from 2014-15, Proxi was one of our first partnerships with a start-up company. This was a great opportunity for a team of DALI students to work on the design and development of a complex web application with the potential for big impact on mental health treatment.  DALI blends mindful design and cutting-edge technology to build prototypes of our partner’s ideas in order to help them get to the next level.  Congratulations to Incente’s Co-Founders, Bill Hudenko, Ph.D., C.E.O. and Dom Candido, PhD., Board Member, for winning the $25,000 top prize!

Congratulations, Pitch 16W Winners!

The DALI+DEN Pitch for Winter 2016 was held at Loew Auditorium on the evening of Wednesday, 24th February. "The Pitch" is a Shark Tank-like competition where 20 teams have two minutes to pitch their big ideas in front of a packed audience and panel of judges. The event saw excellent audience turnout with hundreds of people showing up to offer their support and to vote for their favorites among the pitches.

  • First Place: FoodShare
    Team Representative: Aidan Folbe (D'19)
    An app that combines a marketing opportunity for restaurants with food donations to families in need.
  • Second Place: Lodestone Biomedical, Project Iron Wand
    Team Representative: Lidia Valdés (D’14, Th’15), CEO, Lodestone Biomedical
    A smart wand that detects iron deficiencies in a non-invasive way.
  • Third Place: Heartstring
    Team Representatives: Pete Mathias (T’16, D’09), Johnny Mathias (T ’16, D’11)
    An easy way to add an original music score to social media posts.
  • Audience Choice: Puke Pocket
    Team Representative: Emmanuel A. Hui (D’17)
    A better way for EMT personnel to deal with vomit.
 

Aidan Folbe, whose project placed first said,

"The Pitch is a great way to expose Dartmouth College and the world to the amazing startups being created by Dartmouth entrepreneurs. Students, faculty and alumni get the opportunity to strengthen their pitch skills as well as receive money and resources to get their ideas off the ground."

Patrick Xu, Lead Developer Mentor at the DALI Lab and one of the judges on the panel, said,

"The presenters were so passionate during their two minutes and their ideas reflected creativity and originality. What I found most inspiring was the success already achieved by many of the ideas, from having hundreds of active users to a working prototype."

The Pitch 16W

Twenty people will pitch their big ideas in two minutes or less.  Help choose the winners, February 24th from 7-9 pm in Loew Auditorium. 

Let us know if you are coming on our facebook event page.  

Winners are chosen by a panel of judges and the audience. Four winners receive up to $3000 from DEN and design/development support from the DALI Lab.  The Pitch is a fun, fast-paced event.  Show support for the students, faculty and staff who are pitching, and cast your vote for the winners!  Food will be served.  Winners will be announced at the end of the event.

Winners are selected based on originality of the idea, potential impact, feasibility of the idea, strength of the team, quality of the pitch.  Hope to see you on Wednesday, Feb. 24th at 7 PM in Loew Auditorium.

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The Pitch 15F Winners!

First place: Artwear, Second place: Band Runner, Third place: HytchCar, People's Choice: FliQ

First place: Artwear, Second place: Band Runner, Third place: HytchCar, People's Choice: FliQ

 

DALI and DEN are pleased to announce the winners for the 2015 fall term Pitch. Four winners were chosen from our most competitive applicant pool yet. 20 teams had only two minutes to pitch their big idea to a lively audience in Loew auditorium on Monday, November 9th.  It was our biggest and best pitch competition pool yet!  The four winners are:   

First place: Artwear - a clothing brand that specializes in hand-painted dresses and tops.
May Nguyen, D'18

Second place: Band Runner- a competitive running IOS/Android app that allows two or more users to connect their smartphones and compete with one another in real-time.
Suleman Ashfaq, CS graduate student
Ayan Azmat, CS graduate student
Asad Alavi, CS graduate student
Qurat Rafiq, MEM graduate student

Third place: HytchCar- a social network exclusively for college students to share and connect based on car rides and travel locations.
Azhar Hussain, D'19
DhungJoo Kim, D'19

People's Choice: FliQ- created a faster, easier, and better way to connect and share with those around you using smart bluetooth that allows individual users, businesses, and organizations to find, connect and share contact information and content.
Rob Thelen, Tu'16
Orestis Lykouropoulos, D'17  


The first, second, and third place winners will earn $3,000, $2,000, $1,000 respectively. The audience choice winner will receive $2,000. In addition to cash prizes from DEN, each of the winners receives design and development support from the DALI Lab (up to a $15,000 value). Teams were judged by a panel of judges assembled from DALI and DEN. Judges included: Lorie Loeb, Research Professor in Computer Science, Tim Tregubov, Technical Director at DALI, Jamie Coughlin, the Director of Entrepreneurship at DEN, Eileen O’Toole, Program Manager with DEN, Joshua Schoenbart ‘16, and Amy Zhang ‘17. Audience members voted for the People's Choice Award. The Winter 2016 Pitch will take place on February 25th.  Applications will open January 15th and will be due February 15th. We  encourage everyone with a creative idea to apply!