Eight businesses have been selected from a pool of over 25 applicants to move to the first round in the Dalton Innovation Accelerator’s second annual PitchDIA competition.
The first-round competitors are:
* Critterbox created an Internet of Things-enabled device to enable automated live bait feeding marketed toward reptile owners that comes with a mobile app allowing owners to feed their pets from anywhere.
* Sweat Pack created a mobile app and fitness technology company that allows users to join a group or start a team to motivate each other to meet up for group workouts and sports leagues.
* Elite Lineman Training aims to train people for entry-level line work positions in the electrical lineman industry.
* Musicbük is building a hyper local mobile app that uses artificial intelligence to facilitate the connection between qualified music instructors and prospective students.
* Blackwell Pastures produces pastured livestock and poultry as well as vegetables to connect the community directly to the local farmer.
* Scrap Sports is a sports scrapbooking media platform that allows parents to easily create, store and share their kids’ sports content.
* Rugxite is a product used to sanitize and deodorize rugs, specially designed to keep bathroom rugs feeling clean while killing mold and bacteria and avoiding frequent rug washes.
* Baby on Board is a mobile app designed to ensure caregivers never forget a child in the backseat of a car using specialized technology that alerts the caregiver to car seat activity from anywhere.
Winners will be announced Oct. 8.
PitchDIA is a “shark tank” style pitch competition in which entrepreneurs present business models to a panel of judges. The winner of the 2018 competition, Le Glue, competed on ABC’s SharkTank and was featured agreeing to terms with one of the sharks in the series’ season premiere.