2023 Run the Future

Pitch Competition

Run the Future has partnered with GripTape to help emerging entrepreneurs launch their businesses. Through a 10-week course, youth ages 16-26 developed their innovation skills and their venture ideas within a community of their peers. The course culminated in a pitch competition with the top winners receiving prizes to support the launch of their business idea.

WINNERS

  • Jazlyn Fuentes

    WINNER

  • Jahzeel Sanchez

    Runner Up
    Builders Club is a venture meant to centralize information for Hispanic entrepreneurs and cultivate community. A platform that merges education and culture to specifically serve their needs and lifestyle.

  • Nephraterie Smith

    Runner Up
    Afya is a wholistic doula service focused on providing education, care, access, and resources to black folks experiencing pregnancy, birth, postpartum, abortion and/or loss.

  • Mohammed Fofana

    Honorable Mention

PARTICIPANTS

  • Kennedy Adams

    Participant

  • Irene Bhunia

    Participant

  • Natasha Brewer

    Participant

  • Savanna Brookshire

    Participant

  • Justine Cotiere

    Participant

  • Emonii Hamilton

    Participant

  • Chelsea Haye

    Participant

  • Shanea Higgin

    Participant
    Passion product focused on creating a time management journal to help students improve on all aspects of their mental health and well-being, while also better organizing their time management.
    Instagram * LinkedIn
    shaneahiggin@gmail.com

  • Qiling Jiang

    Participant

  • Trinity Jones

    Participant

  • Christie Peng

    Participant
    Life Basics is an app that teaches life skills to teenagers and unemployed individuals.
    @christieecp

  • Joanny Salazar

    Participant

  • Daniel Uche

    Participant

  • a joint collaboration between Cambiar Education and Formation Ventures

  • in partnership with GripTape Alumni

  • generously funded by the Margulf Foundation