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2025 Pitch Competition

Our biggest night of the year

 Enthuse Foundation’s 7th Annual Pitch Competition,  celebrated women making their mark on the food, beverage, and CPG industries.

Thursday, November 6 

5 PM ET 

The Town Hall by Skylight
PENN 2, 2 Pennsylvania Plaza

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Our Tentpole Event

We have the privilege of working with women entrepreneurs every day. However, our annual Pitch Competition is a celebration of the guts, hustle, and courage it takes to live the entrepreneurial life.

 

The Top 5 Final entrepreneurs pitch their business live in New York City in front of a panel of industry experts.

 

Four industry experts pick the winners, awarding one worthy entrepreneur the chance to take home the title of Enthuse Foundation’s Pitch Competition Winner of the Year.

The Path to the Pitch Competition

Since 2019, women entrepreneurs have applied for the Enthuse Foundation Pitch Competition. In addition to competing for a chance to win cash and prizes, finalists are forever linked with four other entrepreneurs.

 

Enter the Enthuse Foundation Pitch Competition and you never know what exciting connections and potential could come of it.

2025 Eligibility

  • Food, beverage, or CPG business founder

  • Women own at least 51% of business

  • The company has a minimum amount of sales of at least $10,000

  • Business created on or after January 1, 2021

  • Revenue does not exceed $750,000

Full Rules and Eligibility

Timeline 

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Congratulations!  

Five women founders, selected from more than 320 applications, pitched their businesses to a panel of judges vying for cash and other business-building prizes. The winners included:

 

  • Grand Prize - Unbothered Foods, Chicago, IL, Founder: Morgan Murdock. Unbothered Foods, a dietitian-founded, gut-friendly sourdough cracker brand, won $15,000 in cash, 20 hours of in-kind services from Enthuse, a one-year virtual membership to Luminary, access to Hummingbirds user-generated content platform, a social media package from SeeFood Media, a one-year Learning Pass from EmergeCPG, a brand and sales building program helping emerging CPG founders grow sustainably and profitably, and a one-hour coaching call with Kelly Anne Parker, the Founder of Send Ribbon (acquired by UrbanStems). $35,000 prize value.

  • Runner-Up - JONI, Brooklyn, NY Founder: Claire Matern. JONI, a verjus based sparkling non-alcoholic canned drink, won $10,000 in cash, 20 hours of in-kind services from Enthuse, access to Hummingbirds user-generated content platform, a one-year Learning Pass from EmergeCPG, a brand and sales building program helping emerging CPG founders grow sustainably and profitably, and a one-hour coaching call with Kelly Anne Parker, the Founder of Send Ribbon (acquired by UrbanStems). $25,000 prize value.

  • Audience Choice - Private Packs Brooklyn, NY, Founder: Suzanne Sinatra.  Private Packs, makes ergonomic, body-safe hot and cold therapy packs designed to relieve intimate discomfort with its first product addressing vulvovaginal pain, won $3,000 in cash and access to Hummingbirds user-generated content platform. $6,000 prize value.

 

The finalists included To Be Honest Beverage Co. a brand that offers elevated non-alcoholic hemp infused spirit alternatives to replace the liquor or alcohol in crafted cocktails, founded by Michelle Houston, and NEOTEIN, a patent-pending electrolyte and protein drink mix, founded by Cherissa Kell.

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Criteria

  • At least 51% women-owned 

  • U.S. based 

    • At least one founder must be a U.S. citizen​

  • Companies with revenue up to $750K

  • At least $10K in lifetime sales

  • Founded after Jan. 1, 2021

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The Prizes

  • $15,000 Cash. No strings attached.

     In-kind business services from Enthuse (valued at $75,000)

    Morgan Stanley financial planning and informal business valuation consultation (valued at $5,000)

     

    Financial Health Assessment and Strategic Financial Roadmap with Elena Minton, co-owner of SFT Consulting (valued at $2,000)

     

    One-on-One retail strategy consulting call with Allison Ball, specialty food consultant, former Grocery buyer, and founder of Food Biz Wiz® (valued at $600).

    Total prize package = $98,000+

  • $10,000 Cash. No strings attached.

     In-kind business services from Enthuse (valued: $75,000)

    Financial Health Assessment and Strategic Financial Roadmap with Elena Minton, co-owner of SFT Consulting (valued at $2,000)

    One-on-One retail strategy consulting call with Allison Ball, specialty food consultant, former Grocery buyer, and founder of Food Biz Wiz® (valued at $600).

     

    Total prize package = $87,600+

  • Presented by Kendra Scott SoHo and Launch Grow Exit

    $2,500 Cash. No Strings Attached.

    Quarterly mentoring and business strategy meetings with Kelly Anne Parker, founder of Launch Grow Exit (valued at $2,500)


    Total prize package = $5,000

Entrepreneurs have the opportunity to win cash and in-kind business services to help grow their businesses.

Past Pitch Finalists

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Morgan Murdock 

2024 Winner 

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Claire Matern

2024 Runner Up

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Suzanne Sinatra 

2024 Audience Choice 

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Michelle Houston 

2024 Finalist

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Cherissa Kell 

2024 Finalist

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Alison Evans & Chloe Bergson

2023 Winners

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Hilary Cocalis

2023 Runner Up

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Emily Cohen & Drew Lederman

2023 Audience Choice

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Alexandra Baker

2023 Finalist

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Ashley Sankar

2023 Finalist

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Regina Trillo
2022 Winner & Audience Choice

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Nancey Harris

2022 Runner Up

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Marilyn Yang

2022 Finalist

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Lindsay Simon & Delia Hughes

2022 Finalists

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Amanda Victoria

2022 Finalist

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Ashley Nickelsen

2021 Winner

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Reyanne Mustafa

2021 Runner Up & Audience Choice

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Dr. Amy Andes

2021 Finalist

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Nadine Joseph

2021 Finalist

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Tiffany Leong

2021 Finalist

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Ashley Xie & Hedy Yu

2021 Finalist

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Arion Long

2020 Winner & Audience Choice

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Cecilia Panichelli 

2020 Runner Up

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Rhonda Cammon

2020 Finalist

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Katie Maloney

2020 Finalist

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Chi Nguyen

2020 Finalist

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Effie Panagopoulos

2019 Winner

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Jen Pelka

2019 Runner Up

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Taylor Cook

2019 Finalist

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Zoë Gellar

2019 Finalist

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Anna Peck

2019 Finalist

Thank You Pitch Competition Sponsors 

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