On Friday 17th of March Rome Business School held its Pitch Day, marking the end of the third cycle of the RBS4Entrepreneurship program.
This is the final event of the Startup Incubation Program of the Rome Business School. A 6-month journey that saw the participation and involvement of six startups selected during the Selection Day 2022.
During the program, the startups had the opportunity to engage in multiple challenges and productivity sprints to further validate their ideas, develop products and services, test the market, and refine the business model. They were guided by successful entrepreneurs and experts and had the opportunity to really enter the startup world.
At the event, team leaders from each startup presented their idea in front of a panel of Italian and international business angels, accelerators and venture capitalists, thus being able to receive initial feedback from investors and potentially close the first round of investment.
The 6 competing projects and their respective team leaders:
🔸PICCOLO – Aniqa Shaikh
One-stop shop to meet the needs of parents of children aged 0-12, supported by artificial intelligence and machine learning to guide and anticipate purchases based on the child’s current and future needs.
🔸GENERATION – Haiat Perozzo
Cashback platform with a sustainable footprint. The goal is to encourage new generations to embrace the world of sustainability through incentives.
🔸The Casa Club – Ching Mei
An alternative travel platform that connects travelers in Italy with local hosts of the silver generation.
🔸Ecate Group – Roberto Improta
A publishing house, art gallery and magazine where artists can express their vision of the new times.
🔸MHG My Heated Gloves – Dorottya Medgyes
A glove company that aims to enable people with chronic “cold fingers” not to make sacrifices in terms of style or lifestyle by harmonizing glove warming technology with stylish design.
🔸HESH – Ulyana Kostyshyn
Enterprise resource planning software for artisan SMEs with primary target in the fashion industry.
At the end of the Pitch Day the winners were declared. Congratulation to the winning project MHG – My Heated Gloves led by Dorottya Medgyes and to the two special mentioned projects: HESH led by Ulyana Kyrychuk and the Casa Club led by Ching-Mei Chen.
The winning team of MHG will now access a 5 week acceleration program, specifically tailored on their current needs.
Congratulations to all teams for getting this far, and embracing this learning opportunity to the fullest.
A special thanks as well to Ilinca Paun, founder of Bravva Angels, for her inspiring words on building resilience, reacting to problems and female entrepreneurship.
The RBS4Entrepreneurship program aims to support the development of new businesses related to innovative entrepreneurship and helps learn the skills needed to turn an entrepreneurial dream into reality.
In fact, RBS4Entrepreneurship is divided into two main tracks: the Open program and the Incubation program.
The Open program, is a 4-month training program where students are supported with:
✅ Workshops and meetings with entrepreneurs and our Startup Talks
✅ A Digital Hackathon event to improve understanding and project management of any digital features that could be included in the development of the project.
✅The Meet Your Team event where idea holders meet idea seekers and teams are formed
✅The Selection Day, where students enrolled in the program are invited to present their startup idea and the most successful startup ideas are be rewarded with access to the Incubation program
The incubation program is the second part of the #RBS4Entrepreneurship track, and lasts six months, culminating in the Pitch Day. Today’s event in which teams present their startup idea after having worked on it in the incubation program, where they validate their ideas, develop products and services, test the market, and refine the business model.
It is a source of great pride for us to accompany these innovative and socially responsible projects on their path to an entrepreneurial career.
