Meet the Monster Pitch Finalists for 2017

The excitement around this year’s Monster Pitch event was like never before, with the return of our two celebrity judges and amazing presentations by the finalists made this sold out event one to remember.

Monster Pitch is a Brock pitch competition hosted by the Brock Innovation Group in partner with the Goodman School of Business and BioLinc. It allows four finalists the chance to pitch their upcoming business ideas to a panel of judges in hopes to win the grand prize package of $12,500.  The judges included Jim Treliving and Bruce Croxon from the hit TV show Dragon’s Den, as well as Brock Alumni and successful entrepreneurs Jason Sparaga and Deborah Rosati.

The finalists benefited from the competition regardless of their success during the competition, as the feedback from the judges was both useful and encouraging for the entrepreneurs to continue to pursuit their ideas.

The finalists included:

Dalton Steele: Dalton is a 4th year BBA student who has developed HOMESHARP, a professional photo editing service for realtors that he plans on incorporating with his existing business Huvr Media. This app will focus on servicing real estate agents selling low-to-mid range homes looking to eliminate the use of professional photographers but still use professionally edited photos for their listings.

Olivia Poulin: Olivia is a 3rd year BBA student with a passion for animals. Her company Olivia’s Pupadise provides a more personal and luxury pet-care service, which includes long-term and in-house care for a variety of pets.  With her hard work and team of student employees Olivia’s Pupadise has cared for over 65 different pet owners in the Niagara Region with a 100% return rate.

Ryder Damen: Ryder, a 3rd year Biology student with the passion for aviation and innovation is working to create Hundred Dollar Burger. This is a unique web-based platform, which connects pilots for the convenience of ridesharing and cost sharing. The concept “Hundred Dollar Burger” stems from the aviation slang for flying for the sake of flying. “You get in your plane, you fly to another city, you get out, get a hamburger and you fly back.” Ryder says. He has a very niche target market but knows he will grab the attention of a high percentage of aviators looking for a buddy to fly with.

David Lisi: David, a 2nd year student completing his Bachelor of Arts has developed a social enterprise based around high quality scarves with a one-to-one business model. His plan is to provide a free scarf to the local homeless shelter for every Bundle Scarf he sells. This concept won over the judges as two of them purchased scarves on the spot.

The finalists have worked very hard building these ideas and it showed with the quality of the pitches and their ability to tackle the tough questions they were asked. These four finalists have taken advantage of the services offered in BioLinc and plan to continue to use the on campus incubator for support.

Our big winner this year was David Lisi, you can read the full story here.

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