Welcome to the first Cyber Pitch competition, for startups with digital solutions to cybersecurity, privacy, and safety. Cyber Pitch is part of the Houston Cyber Summit virtual event.
Watch the livestream recording from October 22nd and participate in questions, comments, and feedback for the finalists. See the links below for all the tools you need to participate. Yes, the event is over but you can still give your feedback.
Index of times for Cyber Pitch in the video above:
5:43:25 Preamble and introducing Cyber Pitch - Umesh Verma, Greg Wright, Kate Baucherel (emcee)
5:55:06 Overview and Judge intros - Rahul Sood, Sue Jain, Richard Munassi
6:01:44 Clocr - Sree Chintala - pitch and Q&A
6:14:03 PixoAnalytics - Ali Özyigit - pitch and Q&A
6:23:03 Rainbow Secure - Nehal Mehta - pitch and Q&A
6:32:25 Paqt - Anatolii Shkliaruk - pitch and Q&A
6:42:20 How everyone can rank and provide feedback to the finalists
6:44:00 Fireside chat during judging and scoring - Phil Beckett, Rep. Giovanni Capriglioni (Texas)
7:14:09 Short elevator pitch by each finalist
7:19:57 Results for Audience Favorite followed by Judges choice for 3rd, 2nd, 1st place
Essential tools for Cyber Pitch
Scoresheet for judging and feedback. You can continue to add feedback after the ranking deadline.
Who can ask questions?
While the primary questions will come from our three on-air judges, you are welcome to ask too, Please submit any questions for the presenters on the YouTube chat and we’ll ask as many as we can.
Did you know that the first Hatch Pitch winner was a cybersecurity startup that raised $60 million and was acquired in 2019?
Meet the Judges
The global Hatch Pitch community comprises industry experts, VCs, successful entrepreneurs, angel investors, and professionals with a passion for helping startups succeed in making the world a better place. Each judge was hand selected for their expertise, commitment, and leadership.
emcee
Kate Baucherel, holds the show together. She was a Hatch Pitch finalist, multi-year panelist, and emcee of our first virtual summit. She’s a digital strategist. She writes books on cyber crime.
on-air judges
We have three judges who will be asking questions to our startups. It’s great that Rahul Sood, the co-founder of Unikrn and Creator of Microsoft Ventures, will be a judge once again. We are also happy to introduce Sue Jain, senior Technology & Analytics Executive, and Richard Munassi, co-founder of Blackfin Technology Partners and Blackfin Venture Partners.
scoring judges (not what you might think)
Just like our on-air judges, our scoring judges will be evaluating the startups’ pitch plus Q&A.
This year, we are pleased to welcome back Ben Wilson (CTO, Google Energy), along with Roger Casals (Founder & CEO, Plazah); Kerty Levy (Managing Director, Techstars); Sajeev Prelis (Partner, CyberGuard Compliance LLP); Yale Zhang (Founder, Safe Heart); Dennis Dayman (President, SURVIVR); Juliette Richert (Associate, The Artemis Fund); Roberto Moctezuma (Founder & CEO, Fractal River); Mark Streich (Co-Founder, SquareFairy); Paulo Machado (CEO & Founder, Health Innovation Partners); Bart Bohn (Director, Blackstone LaunchPad); Jake McKee (CEO, Community5); Katie Baker (Director, Advisor); Kyle Cox (Partner, ATP); Mike Steely (Co-Founder, Vocool); Thor Schueler (Senior Director, Avanade); Steve Forte (Managing Partner, Fresco Capital)
Learn more about our Cyber Pitch judges and coaches here…
You say I can judge?
Yes, everyone can submit a scoresheet. Official Hatch Pitch judges will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. The “Crowd Favorite” is selected by the audience via the scoresheet. Please wait until all teams have presented before casting your vote. Please submit your rankings by 4:45pm. You can continue to add feedback after the ranking deadline.
Meet the Finalists
Four startups were chosen by our panel from hundreds of applications that were sent in from around the world.
Clocr (Austin, Texas) - Clocr, short for Cloud Locker, is the industry’s first all-in-one legacy planning platform for online accounts, crypto currency, and digital assets.
Paqt (Toronto, Canada) - The agreement platform that enables external business communication in a chat environment without compromising speed and legal security.
PixoAnalytics (Bonn, Germany) - Makes it possible to identify any item at any point in time in any location with its unique surface structure recognition algorithm.
Rainbow Secure (Old Bridge, New Jersey) - Secure office solutions for protecting logins, data, payments, transactions, and services.
Why should I attend?
See startups duke it out while learning about the latest innovation in cybersecurity. What could be better?
Who knows - one of our next finalists may be the perfect solution or partner you need!
Watch live now. This chance may never happen again!
Would you like to be involved? Lets us know with the link below…