Students presented their “competition pitches” to a panel of 20 entrepreneurs and investors from the St. Louis startup community during the last week of classes in December. There were 60 students participating on 16 teams in two flights.

The feedback from the judges was that this was the highest quality of pitches that they have ever seen in The Hatchery.  The students transformed their raw ideas to invest-able plans in one semester.  I am very proud of what they accomplished.

The judges’ results:

Thursday Flight:
#1. TeleREDI (telemedicine platform) led by EMBA student Javier Esteban
Varela, MD

#2. Zymplr (new football helmet technology) led by BSBA student Chisolm
Uche. Read more about this company in Olin Business Magazine.

#3. AirHop (private aviation concept) led by MBA Ryan Maher

Friday Flight:
#1. River City Distillery (craft whiskey distillery) led by BSBA
student Dara Baker

#2. The Reserve (online fashion marketplace) led by MBAs Leigh Farah
and Ashley Ross. Leigh was a guest on the Techli Domain Report with Prof. Holekamp and Andrews Brimmer’13 talking about The Hatchery course.

#3. Data TurnAround (data services) led by MBA Kris Klinkerman