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LaunchVT Final Competition

Do you know how innovative your own community is?

You may have the next big entrepreneurial success story living right next door.

Come watch our Shark Tank-style competition on May 12th from 4:00-8:00pm at Main Street Landing in the Film House of the Performing Arts Center. See which businesses excite you and which the judges love. Find out who will win the first-place prize of $30,000 dollars in cash and $45,000 of in-kind services. The second place winner will receive $15,000 dollars in cash and $25,000 of in-kind services.

Afterwards, enjoy food and a cash bar from Have Your Cake Catering while you have a chance to chat up the competitors. 

Finalists:

Max Robbins and Peter Silverman of MajorWise
Stephen Swanson and Jennifer Swanson of Tomorrow’s Harvest
Dominic Spillane of TheaterEngine
Linley Shaw of Share to Wear
Ryan McDevitt and Matt Shea of Greenscale Technologies
Heather Gere and Travis Gere of CampersApp 
Paul Hines, Mads Almassalkhi, Jeff Frolik, and Andrew Giroux of Packetized Energy

Free parking will be available in the lot at the end of Lake Street (near the new skate park). There is also metered parking (until 6pm) along Lake Street and in the public parking lot across from the Performing Arts Center.