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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

Read the 2025 Pitch Competition Press Release 

Watch the Entire Recording

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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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2025 PITCH COMPETITION FINALISTS

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KIMBERLE LAU

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CAROLINA LOPEZ

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TATYANA JONES

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ANGEL HOBBS, RACHEL RANSOM, ALIYAH NEWMAN

PALITA SRIRATANA

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Inside access to the 7th Annual Pitch Competition

Go behind the scenes at the 7th Annual Pitch Competition—finalists, Shop small with Amazon pop-up brands, cocktails, judges, and more.

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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 2026 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.

Timeline 

  • August 2025 - Applications Open 

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Past 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

Thank You
2025 Pitch Competition Sponsors 

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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

2025 Prizes

  • $15,000 cash, no strings attached

    In-kind business services from Enthuse

    A license to Locket Professional, the AI retention engine and a session with founder Susie Kilcoyne

    Morgan Stanley financial planning and informal business valuation consultation

    An evaluation of the brand’s social media presence conducted by Hootsuite

    Access to one of Katie Dunn’s Digital Twins and three coaching sessions with Katie

     

    Financial Health Assessment and Strategic Financial Roadmap with Elena Minton

     

    Momentum Session with Julie Pryor, founder of EmergeCPG

     

    Retail strategy consulting call with Allison Ball

     

    Interview on Emerging Brands Podcast® hosted by Kelly Bennett

    Total prize package = $120,000+

  • $10,000 cash, no strings attached

    In-kind business services from Enthuse

    A license to Locket Professional, the AI retention engine

    Morgan Stanley financial planning and informal business valuation consultation

    Access to one of Katie Dunn’s Digital Twins and three coaching sessions with Katie

    Financial Health Assessment and Strategic Financial Roadmap with Elena Minton

     

    Retail strategy consulting call with Allison Ball

    Interview on Emerging Brands Podcast® hosted by Kelly Bennett

    Total prize package = $100,000+

  • Presented by Kendra Scott SoHo and Launch Grow Exit
     

    $3,000 Cash. No Strings Attached.

    Quarterly mentoring and business strategy meetings with Kelly Anne Parker, founder of Launch Grow Exit (valued at $3,000)


    Total prize package = $6,000

    • Two 90-minute 1:1 executive coaching sessions per finalist with Sarah Bellendaine, Executive Coach, to help them cut through complexity and move forward with clear priorities and presence (valued: $1,250 each, $6,250 total)

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

Total prizes awarded = $236,850+

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