Deadline: 14 June 2024
Submissions are now open for the SENT Pitch Competition 2024.
Seeking up to 5 teams at the angel, pre-seed, and seed level to pitch their startups to a panel of seasoned investors at the upcoming SENT Summit, including:
- $10,000 cash prize to the winner
- $50,000+ in in-kind prizes
- The opportunity to connect with dozens of values-aligned investors at the SENT Summit and through the SENT platform.
Pitch Criteria
- Alignment
- Does the company advance Catholic values? Does the management team attempt to live out their faith in the operations of the company?
- Team
- Do these founders make sense for this team? Does their background contribute to the likelihood of success? Do they have the skills internally (or are experienced finding them externally) to advance the product?
- Timing
- Why this now? What makes this the right time to build this company?
- Market
- Does the market make sense for the pitch they are making? If pursuing a VC scalable model, is the TAM large enough to justify VC funding?
- Traction
- Do they have sufficient traction for their stage? If seed, do they have paid contracts/strong user growth? If pre-seed, do they have pilots/beta users? Angel – do they have thorough customer discovery?
Criteria
- They are seeking Catholic startup founders looking to live and build Spirit-led companies in both secular and faith-tech verticals. You simply have to have at least one Catholic founder on your team and tell us how you are living out your faith as a Spirit-led founder in your application to be considered.
- They are looking for companies from the MVP to the pre-product market fit stage. You don’t have to have previously raised financing but if you have, they prefer teams that have raised no more than $1mm previously. You don’t currently have to be fundraising but should plan that your next fundraise should be no more than $2.5mm.
- This pitch competition is for for-profit startups with venture scalable roadmaps only.
For more information, visit SENT Ventures.