Regional Pitch Competition
Get ready to showcase your company and ACCELERATE your opportunities.
Regional Pitch Applications
Now Open!
Applications will be open May 23rd through July 18. Please provide a 60-second pitch video with your application.
Apply NowThe 2025 WBEC FL Regional Pitch Competition serves as a qualifying round for the National WBENC Semi-Finals.
WBENCPitch is a signature WBENC program featuring a series of pitch competitions and educational sessions to help WBEs hone their business pitch, gain meaningful exposure, and compete for grants and other prizes to invest in their business.
The 2025 WBENCPitch Accelerate competition is focused on storytelling and impact. In this ever-changing business landscape, it is critical now more than ever for business owners to effectively communicate beyond their capabilities or the problems they solve.
The competition will feature two separate categories – Products and Services. Each category will award two (2) winners.
1. First Place: $25,000
2. Runner Up: 2026 Complimentary WBENC National Conference Registration
How the Competition Works:
Each contestant must submit a 60-second intro pitch video attached to the application, which will be used by our selection committee to narrow the field to 10 regional semi-finalists. Those chosen as semi-finalists will compete in the virtual regional competition on August 15. Four from that round will advance to the national competition.
Pitch Criteria
Participant must be a WBENC-Certified WBE whose certification is in good standing.
Participant fits the following 1st Round Criteria:
- Entry video is 1 minute, and virtual live pitch will be 3 minutes.
- Pitch must focus on communicating the company’s story in a creative and compelling way.
- Entries must focus on an existing product, service or business solution that is currently in the market or ready for market (not a future idea or endeavor).
- Presenter must be a female owner of the company.
If the solution is the result of a joint venture between multiple WBE companies or if the business has more than one female owner, the application must be submitted on behalf of only one of the WBE companies or owners. Only one WBE will be permitted to pitch in each round, and it will need to be the same WBE in each round.
Save the date!
The 2025 Virtual Regional Pitch Competition will be held on Friday, August 15, from 10 a.m. to noon.
RegisterMeet the 2024 Services Winner!
Dhomonique Murphy, InclusiSync Workforce Solutions (now SkillSprint Workforce Solutions), is a WBEC Florida WBE and was the winner of the $25,000 prize for service-based companies in the 2024 competition.
This could be YOU this year!
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