Rise Southern Virginia Business Pitch Competition @ SVHEC

The RISE Business Pitch Competition is a free-to-enter competition that will take place on March 28, 2023 from 4-8pm at the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center (SVHEC) Innovation Center in South Boston, Va. It is the first-ever region-wide business pitch competition hosted in Southern Virginia. The competition will feature 10 businesses and entrepreneurs selected from the pool of applicants.

Businesses will pitch for a chance to win $1,000 to start or $5,000 to grow.

Registration is open to individuals who live or run a business in one of the fifteen GO Virginia Region 3 localities, have completed an approved entrepreneurship course, and whose businesses are early in the start-up phase, already in operation, or anywhere in between.

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