Our 5th Annual Unicorn AmbitioPleasen Pitch Competition returns with cash and prizes. Come prepared to pitch your tech or scalable startup to a panel of judges, investors, and attendees. The Competition will take place on Friday, November 10th for tech-enabled scalable startups. In just 5 years, over $30M in funding has been invested into participating pitch competition finalists through curated investor connections.
Eligibility:
- At least one member of the founding team must identify as a Black male
- Your company is a tech or tech-enabled scalable startup
- Funding Stage: Seed or Series A
- Your business must be revenue-generating
Here's How it Works:
Round 1: The Application - Submit your digital application for internal review. 3-4 founders will be selected to pitch live.
Round 2: The Pitch (2 min) - Deliver your pitch for investment to a panel of expert judges
Round 3: The Hot Seat (5 min) - Q&A with judges on the pitch and the plan
Terms & Conditions – Black Men Talk Tech
- Please acknowledge the above Terms and Conditions
- In lieu of your resume, please submit your pitch doc and a headshot
Skills Required
- At least one founding team member must identify as a Black male
- Company must be a technology or tech-enabled scalable startup
- Company must be at the Seed or Series A funding stage
- Company must be revenue-generating
- Submit a digital application for internal review
- Submit a pitch document and headshot instead of a resume
- Acknowledge the stated terms and conditions
What We Do
Black Men Talk Tech is an entrepreneurship collective and conference series supporting emerging and established Black technology entrepreneurs. It promotes collaboration across the tech ecosystem and seeks to create access to insights, capital, and inclusion. Through conferences, educational programming, networking, corporate connections, and pitch competitions, it helps founders learn, commercialize products, raise funding, and build high-growth technology companies and pursue scalable ventures.
