Chicks Rule at StartupChicks’ 3rd Annual Pitch Competition

Twelve companies, six minutes and four slides. Those were the digits that mattered last Wednesday as more than 70 women gathered at the Hodges Room in ATDC for the third annual StartupChicks Pitch Competition.

The annual competition is open to female entrepreneurs only and twelve companies were selected from an application pool of more than 20. Each of the 12 companies had six minutes to pitch their company concept to a panel of all-star female serial entrepreneurs, executives and investors that included Joan Lyman, Karen Cope, Kelly Gay and Judi Vitale.

Having been present all three years, in this editor’s opinion, the companies participating were the most diverse yet. Concepts ranged from a women’s sports community to a marketplace for interior designers to a software suite that helps businesses go global. In the end, the judges picked the following six companies:

1. Team Fenom: Women’s sports community
2. Synkup: Tungle for personal events
3. Intellitaste: Mobile app to record retail preferences.
4. Do Good Get Rewards: Reward marketplace for non-profits and retailers
5. Home Anatomy: Marketplace for interior designers and consumers
6. Raise Global Services: Match.com for corporations and non-profits

As the winner of this year’s competition, Team Fenom earned a slot to pitch at Startup Riot 2012. All six companies will undergo StartupChicks’ four-month Accelerator program. Previous participants Jackie Hutter (Class of 2010) and Caroline Van Sickle (Class of 2011) have since received funding from Atlanta Technology Angels for their respective companies.

Stay tuned as Venture Atlanta will be checking in on the class of 2012 right before their graduation in June.