The final Pitch & Pick of 2022 is Tuesday, December 13th, and this cohort was truly one of our strongest yet! Tuesday’s competition will see six of the fall cohort’s participants pitch for the top spot, as decided by our panel of expert judges, as well as the Community Choice award and the BlueDrop True Blue award. The six finalists are:

Jybe is a BNPL platform built specifically for the 1.5 trillion-dollar digital subscription industry. Jybe integrates into a digital subscription’s checkout page as an alternative payment option along with traditional monthly and annual contract options. By offering an annual commitment with monthly payments Jybe will pay the upfront cost of a discounted annual subscription to the vendor business and bill the consumer back at a cheaper monthly rate. This offers the cheapest and most flexible payment option for consumers, while also providing the vendor businesses with an increase in subscribers and an increase in percentage of subscribers opting for the longer lasting contract where they get paid upfront.

StepWise envisions a world where every runner and athlete wears healthy and safe shoes. We are eliminating harmful in-store shoe and orthotics recommendations that cause long-term health issues by developing an assistive scanning mobile application that provides scientifically accurate shoe recommendation services to athletic footwear retailers.

Bonocle is a braille education and entertainment platform for the visually impaired that solves the braille illiteracy crisis in North America and worldwide. It acts as a braille controller for applications on your smart devices and helps teachers and students teach and learn braille in a fun, easy, and accessible way through our educational apps and games.

SendNaa is a marketplace for  person-to-person currency exchange. Allowing users to set exchange rates for their currencies and other users to purchase those currencies, send money back and forth between Nigeria and Canada and trade currencies between Nigeria and Canada for profit. 

Data Farms is a precision agriculture IoT company using sensors to monitor crops in real time.  We help farmers use resources more efficiently, saving fuel and fertilizer costs, and optimize indoor and greenhouse environments to improve crop yield.  Custom alerts allow farmers to react fast when conditions change to avoid crop loss and crop failure.  Data Farms offers a full-service data platform, taking care of everything from hardware installation all the way to actionable insights in your browser.

Veristart is a construction security solution. Construction equipment keys are literally all the same.  In most cases one common key works in all units made for a manufacturer, providing almost no security.  As a result, over $5B of construction equipment is stolen each year.  Veristart addresses this problem by putting construction equipment keys in the cloud, using mobile and cloud technology to empower equipment owners with real time control over who can operate their equipment.  This benefits the equipment owner through reduced risk of loss, reduced downtime, and improved worker safety.