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2023 InnoVets Pitch Competition

  • When

    Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 5:00 PM

  • Where

    Emond Center for Engagement (ECE)
    12 Channel Street, Suite 603
    Boston, MA 02210

  • Application Deadline

    TBD

Join InnoVets and Massachusetts Fallen Heroes in celebrating our Veteran and Gold Star Family businesses in New England at our InnoVets Pitch Competition. Each candidate will have 15 minutes to address the public and present their compelling pitch for how we can help them continue to grow and thrive, followed by a 5 minute Q&A session with our judges. The first and second place winners will leave with their share of $20,000 in seed money. Attendees will have the chance vote for their favorite, with an additional prize of $5,000 for the audience’s favorite business.

2019 Pitch Competition Winners

UPROOT is a military-focused home equity solution and marketplace. We remove the current inefficiencies, risks and hassle that exists in the real estate market which limits the appetite and opportunity to profit from homeownership when people are frequently “uprooted” because of their service. We expand homeownership opportunities and access to financial security by creating a mortgage market for short-term homeowners.

When a servicemember gets orders to PCS from their current duty station, they will call UPROOT. We take the place of a traditional real estate agent and find an incoming military buyer, and then mediate a loan assumption between the two parties. The incoming member moves in with an UPROOT cash offer that is guaranteed when he moves out at the end of their tour. Our outgoing member moves out and can choose between the cash offer they were guaranteed or the opportunity to maintain a fractional equity stake in the home and let it appreciate without having to do anything else.

A person can bleed to death in 5-8 minutes. A 10-year study of battlefield deaths from 2001-2011 concluded that 879 preventable deaths occurred where the warfighter died of hemorrhage. On the homefront, data from the National Center of Injury Prevention and Control show that over 2 million Americans have died from trauma since 2001. They estimate that 20% of trauma deaths are preventable, 30,000 annually.

Aggressive tourniquet use has been shown to significantly reduce deaths. But successful application of traditional, hand-wound tourniquets requires training and practice. Timing, speed, and force are central issues. Automation of the tourniquet offers a path to a rapid, more effective lifesaving response. OLGS is developing an automated tourniquet for warfighters and first responders. It is an intuitive device that works with the push of a button and does not require extensive training to use.

Our business is a digital platform that provides vetted, veteran employees who are mentally stable and are guaranteed to stay with the company for over a year. We do this by providing the veterans with holistic, curated, high-impact veteran resources that align with their passions, needs, and interests so they can thrive in their work and personal lives. We are a double-sided platform consisting of three databasesa resource database, a veteran database, and a job database.

Veteran Entrepreneur Series

  • When

    A restart of this event is currently being planned.

  • Where

    Emond Center for Engagement (ECE)
    12 Channel St. Suite 603
    Boston, MA

  • More Information

    These meetings are informal. Beer and wine will be available.

Series is free and open to the public. Please register for the night(s) you wish to attend by visiting our events calendar.

The Veteran Entrepreneur Series connects, inspires, and supports military veterans in their efforts to navigate the path of entrepreneurship. This event regularly gathers military veterans and the Boston entrepreneurship and innovation community. This series is open to the public with content geared towards supporting veterans and their growing businesses:

  • Student veterans
  • Transitioning military
  • Budding entrepreneurs
  • Startup/early-stage business founders
  • Growing business owners
  • Social entrepreneurship

Veteran Leadership Panel

  • When

    Wednesday, May 25, 2022
    9:00-11:00 AM

  • Where

    PwC
    101 Seaport Blvd
    Boston, MA 02210

“Once a Marine, Always a Marine” or “Airborne All The Way” are famous phrases to the Marines and airborne soldiers, but what do they mean as Veterans transition out of the service and begin to build a new foundation and career in the civilian marketplace?

Each year, InnoVets Boston and Mass Fallen Heroes present a panel of Veteran and business leaders who have experienced deep cultural transformations and made the changes necessary to create not only dynamic changes in their lives but in their professional fields and businesses.