Recap of July 2020 Boss Biz

Boss Bizz Entrepreneurship Academy

(Open to all who dream of Entrepreneurship. No prior experience required.)

Boss Biz is a business pitch fest, where Samaira, alongside well-renowned entrepreneurs across the world, will share the process of creating a business and becoming an entrepreneur, from the very basic on how to start out and by the end, you will know all the needed skills to become an entrepreneur.
You put the skills you learned to use when you get the chance to create your own business. You get to pitch your idea for the chance to win $1000 as seed funding to make it reality! Runner ups will win $500, $250, and $250.

Event Information

Who:

Anyone 8 years old and above

When:

July 13 – July 24 from 8-9:30 am PST.

Please convert this to whatever timezone you’re located in.

We won’t have an meeting everyday, but this is the time span of the event.

For the exact dates of the meetings and what is going to happen each day, check out out eventbrite page here

Where:

Online from your device

What:

Online Business Pitch Fest, where you will learn crucial entrepreneurial skills, create a business, and have the chance to win $1000

Benefits of Attending the Program

* Unlock your kids’ brilliance as they are challenged to create their own profitable companies
* Learning about how a business is made from the start to the finish
* Learning and interacting with guest speakers who have created well-known companies and made their name across the world.
* Getting to create your own business or company
* Gaining vital entrepreneurial skills and mindsets
* 1 on 1 mentoring sessions
* Public speaking skills
* Getting the chance to pitch your business and product for the chance to win $1000 in first place, $500 in second, and $250 for 3rd and 4th.

Distinguished Speakers

Vicki Saunders
CEO and Founder of SheEO

Gabrielle Goodwin
CEO and President of GaBBY Bows

Madhavi Shankar
CEO and Founder of Space Basic

Brian Weisfeld
CEO and Founder of The Startup Squad

Sebastian Hofbauer
Co-Founder of 1M2030

Sheena Yap Chan
CEO and Founder of The Tao of Self Confidence

Isabel and Caroline Bercaw
CEO and Founder of Da Bomb Bath Fizzers

Alex Glow
Hardware Nerd at Hackerster.io

Alina Morse
Founder and Creator of Zollipops

Michelle Sun
CEO and Founder of First Code Academy

Natasha Sichula
President and Founder of the Herz Movement

Raju Chithambaram
CTO at Global 1000 and a startup coach

Boss Biz Judges

Our Sponsers

Media

And the winners are...

Winner of the $1000: KaMbeka Foundation – Evelyn Sitambi

A foundation from Zambia which ensures that every pregnant woman books early for antenatal care services so that no woman or newborn will have to die from preventable causes, working to save the lives of children. Ka Mbeka means a very beautiful woman in one of her local languages.

Winner of the $500: Healera – Shivam Garg
A faucet extension that turns your ordinary taps smart and helps you conserve water (UN SDG 6), protects you from deadly diseases (UN SDG 3), and helps you live a stress-free life by making daily tasks more convenient.

Winner of the $250 (#1): Kid Everest – Kayla, Keagan, Ashley Serverius
Kid Everest is the WORLD’S FIRST crowdfunding platform safe for kidpreneurs

Winner of the $250 (#2): Hygieia – Nishchay Jaiswal, Parth Dama, Sanshray Jaiswal
Hygieia is a product that helps public places to be more hygienic and safer through detecting if you’re wearing a mask or not, checking your temperature, and sanitizing your hands.

We have also added 2 $50 prizes:

Winner of the $50 (#1): Unitic – Jerry Di
Using machine learning and optimization to create an automatized online therapy platform for the treatment of Tourette Syndrome

Winner of the $50 (#2): FunShop – Tony and Kayla
Provide a safe way to shop via online app/game through an interactive virtual shopping experience

We love all of your ideas, and we’d like to support as many of you as possible. That’s why we have another category for noticeable people and/or companies that the judges and I also really liked. We’d like to support you with $10:

Winner of the $10 (#1): Threat Gone – Chandrasekhar Kappagantula

Winner of the $10 (#2): EtoE – Jeya Kumari and Lamia Jamal

Winner of the $10 (#3): Powcher – Lara Jeetly

Winner of the $10 (#4): Moi Treasury – Pransh Patwa

Winner of the $10 (#5): Easy Cut – Jiya Kohar, Sophia Caguiat, and Damilare Oshin

Winner of the $10 (#6): Nolan Romero – Artisto

Winner of the $10 (#7): Christianna Alexander – Sweet Christi’s

Winner of the $10 (#8): Cune – Varun Ramachandran, Hansini Ramachandran

Winner of the $10 (#9): Think Green – Sarah Weh

Winner of the $10 (#10): Focus & Learn – Jason Zhang, Wayne Lu, Evan Wang

Winner of the $10 (#11): Kreative Kids – Cary, Cyra, Caaliyah Matthews

Winner of the $10 (#12): MTC Educate a Girl Inc. – Maka Chikowero