Speed Venture Summit™ Top Companies to Receive Pitch-Off Awards
The NH High Technology Council and NH Small Business Development Center today announced the award structure for the top businesses at The Speed Venture Summit™. Fifty of New England’s fastest-growing hot companies have been selected to pitch their growth stories to the region’s leading private capital investors. The five finalists will be seeking private capital investment, and will also compete to win the new, super-thin and stylish Peek™ e-mail device, along with other accessories.
Peterborough, NH, October 22, 2008 --(PR.com)-- The NH High Technology Council and NH Small Business Development Center today announced the award structure for the top businesses at The Speed Venture Summit™.
Fifty of New England’s fastest-growing hot companies have been selected to pitch their growth stories to the region’s leading private capital investors. The five top presenting companies, as ranked by the investors, will qualify to participate in a Pitch-Off, where they will deliver a 1-minute elevator pitch during the networking session. The audience will select the most compelling presentation as the winner.
“We are pleased to announce that, courtesy of our Award Sponsor, ColoSpace, Inc. and the generosity of the inventive folks at Peek, the five finalists will be competing to win the new, super-thin and stylish Peek™ e-mail device, along with other accessories,” said Summit marketing producer Tim Platt. “With these coveted prizes on the line, we are looking forward to the pre-Summit buzz reaching a crescendo level during the Pitch-Off. No techie or business leader is going to want to miss this moment,” he predicted.
“This award structure fits in nicely with our Real Time/Real Investors™ mission,” explained Summit Chair Hollis McGuire, director of the New Hampshire Small Business Development Center for Manchester and Nashua. “This will provide even more incentive for executives of the presenting companies to sharpen their message and tell a compelling story in less than a minute. They will be better prepared as a result for the featured speed-venture segment.”
While the private speed-venturing segment has sold out, there are still some openings for the public networking session that begins at 5 PM, according to Julie Gustafson, the Summit’s PR Director.
Participating companies represent all sectors and development stages, from start-up to later-stage. They will “speed pitch” to 25 of the region’s savviest and shrewdest investors, ranging from individuals and Angel investors to venture capital firms and private equity and mezzanine financers, in private sessions throughout the afternoon. Following the speed venturing segment, the Summit will include a public business networking session, which will kick off with remarks from private capital guru Jeffrey Sohl, Director of the Center for Venture Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences at University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics.
The drama of the Pitch-Off will immediately follow Jeff Sohl’s remarks.
For more information about the Summit, or to register for the networking segment, visit www.speedventuresummit.org
About the NH Small Business Development Center (NH SBDC): The NH SBDC provides confidential business management consulting and educational programs to New Hampshire’s small businesses. The NH SBDC is the only NH agency that has full-time certified business advisors providing on-on-one, long-term, management consulting to small businesses. NH SBDC is an outreach program of the UNH Whittemore School of Business & Economics, and a cooperative venture with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the State of New Hampshire (DRED), the University System of New Hampshire, and the private sector. For more info on the NH SBDC, visit www.nhsbdc.org.
About the New Hampshire High Technology Council (NHHTC): The NHHTC’s purpose is to bring together representatives from the private and public sectors to establish and maintain financial, technical, management, legislative and educational support programs that encourage innovative research and technology-based industrial development in NH. www.nhhtc.org
About ColoSpace: ColoSpace is a leading provider of Application Hosting, Colocation, and Disaster recovery services in New England. Headquartered in Rockland, Massachusetts, ColoSpace operates a network of 6 Internet Data Centers (IDCs) throughout the region. From these IDCs ColoSpace deploys high availability services to firms located throughout the world. ColoSpace's customers include some of the largest firms in the Financial Services, Healthcare, and High Technology industries. www.colospace.com
About Peek: Peek is a new company that has created a device entirely designed to make mobile email easy for anybody. The Peek device offers a straight-forward, easy-to-use email device without all of the hassles of other wireless products. Peek keeps things simple. Just unlimited email—no contracts, no hidden fees, no complications. www.getpeek.com
Contact:
Tim Platt
Board of Directors
NH High Technology Council
603.410.1500
tcp@kinsmanco.com
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Fifty of New England’s fastest-growing hot companies have been selected to pitch their growth stories to the region’s leading private capital investors. The five top presenting companies, as ranked by the investors, will qualify to participate in a Pitch-Off, where they will deliver a 1-minute elevator pitch during the networking session. The audience will select the most compelling presentation as the winner.
“We are pleased to announce that, courtesy of our Award Sponsor, ColoSpace, Inc. and the generosity of the inventive folks at Peek, the five finalists will be competing to win the new, super-thin and stylish Peek™ e-mail device, along with other accessories,” said Summit marketing producer Tim Platt. “With these coveted prizes on the line, we are looking forward to the pre-Summit buzz reaching a crescendo level during the Pitch-Off. No techie or business leader is going to want to miss this moment,” he predicted.
“This award structure fits in nicely with our Real Time/Real Investors™ mission,” explained Summit Chair Hollis McGuire, director of the New Hampshire Small Business Development Center for Manchester and Nashua. “This will provide even more incentive for executives of the presenting companies to sharpen their message and tell a compelling story in less than a minute. They will be better prepared as a result for the featured speed-venture segment.”
While the private speed-venturing segment has sold out, there are still some openings for the public networking session that begins at 5 PM, according to Julie Gustafson, the Summit’s PR Director.
Participating companies represent all sectors and development stages, from start-up to later-stage. They will “speed pitch” to 25 of the region’s savviest and shrewdest investors, ranging from individuals and Angel investors to venture capital firms and private equity and mezzanine financers, in private sessions throughout the afternoon. Following the speed venturing segment, the Summit will include a public business networking session, which will kick off with remarks from private capital guru Jeffrey Sohl, Director of the Center for Venture Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences at University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics.
The drama of the Pitch-Off will immediately follow Jeff Sohl’s remarks.
For more information about the Summit, or to register for the networking segment, visit www.speedventuresummit.org
About the NH Small Business Development Center (NH SBDC): The NH SBDC provides confidential business management consulting and educational programs to New Hampshire’s small businesses. The NH SBDC is the only NH agency that has full-time certified business advisors providing on-on-one, long-term, management consulting to small businesses. NH SBDC is an outreach program of the UNH Whittemore School of Business & Economics, and a cooperative venture with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the State of New Hampshire (DRED), the University System of New Hampshire, and the private sector. For more info on the NH SBDC, visit www.nhsbdc.org.
About the New Hampshire High Technology Council (NHHTC): The NHHTC’s purpose is to bring together representatives from the private and public sectors to establish and maintain financial, technical, management, legislative and educational support programs that encourage innovative research and technology-based industrial development in NH. www.nhhtc.org
About ColoSpace: ColoSpace is a leading provider of Application Hosting, Colocation, and Disaster recovery services in New England. Headquartered in Rockland, Massachusetts, ColoSpace operates a network of 6 Internet Data Centers (IDCs) throughout the region. From these IDCs ColoSpace deploys high availability services to firms located throughout the world. ColoSpace's customers include some of the largest firms in the Financial Services, Healthcare, and High Technology industries. www.colospace.com
About Peek: Peek is a new company that has created a device entirely designed to make mobile email easy for anybody. The Peek device offers a straight-forward, easy-to-use email device without all of the hassles of other wireless products. Peek keeps things simple. Just unlimited email—no contracts, no hidden fees, no complications. www.getpeek.com
Contact:
Tim Platt
Board of Directors
NH High Technology Council
603.410.1500
tcp@kinsmanco.com
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