SEYMOUR, Ind. – The Jackson County Chamber recently announced the finalists for its first-ever SPARK Tank entrepreneur pitch competition.
The SPARK Tank competition and awards are made possible by a Community Collaboration Fund grant from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.
Seventeen local entrepreneurs and innovators submitted an idea that they would like to develop into a business model. The submissions were anonymously reviewed and rated by a panel of Jackson County business leaders.
Each submission was evaluated in five key areas: Team, Traction, Customer Discovery, Opportunity, and Creativity.
The finalists in the SPARK Tank entrepreneur pitch competition are:
- Brian Snow, “World Class Filming Location and Event Space”
- Jane Ellery, “A PLACE for Change!”
- Nathan Otte, “School-Based Vision Clinic”
- Stephanie Strothmann, “For Love of Dogs and Beer”
- Nadia Herrera Luna, “NH by Nadia Herrera”
- Jessica Bowman, “From Pasture to Plate, a Rural Feast”
These finalists will compete for a total of $15,000 in awards at the live SPARK Tank pitch event on Thursday, February 1. The event will be held upstairs at Rails Craft Brew and Eatery at 6 p.m. The public is invited but encouraged to RSVP, here.
“We are excited that we had 17 big thinkers from Jackson County who were willing to step up and throw their big idea out there,” said Dan Robison, Director of the Jackson County Chamber.
Courtesy-Jackson County Chamber
