The PILOT Pitch Prize sought early stage startups with game-changing technologies and solutions to help broadcasters innovate and better serve their communities. The winners were chosen in the final round of pitches at NAB Show New York.
This year’s winners are Airwavz.TV, PolyPort and Teamium.
2018 Winners
Teamium
Ashok Sharma pitches Teamium to the Pitch Prize Judges at NAB Show New York
Teamium is a cloud-based media production management platform that provides distributed teams with all the digital collaboration tools they need to coordinate production work. Teamium’s visual collaboration tools that work on all devices combined with consumer-grade user experience that requires no training radically transform the way production teams communicate and get things done. Designed with the latest digital technologies, Teamium unifies production resource planning and management with user defined business processes eliminating spreadsheets and never-ending email chains.
PolyPort
Chloe Kettell explains PolyPort’s 3D digital asset management. In addition to winning the Pitch Prize, Port also took home the Peoples Choice Award
PolyPort offers complete digital asset management, tracking, and IP protection for owners and creators. PolyPort’s solution, employing security and encryption algorithms, enable content owners to control, monitor, and manage access to digital content to remote users and collaborators in real time as well as set time limits on assets for self-destruct. PolyPort gives you true control over your intellectual property wherever it may travel.
Airwavz.tv
Airwavz CEO Bonnie Beeman pitches Airwavz.tv
Airwavz.TV™ is delivering fresh, fast and free TV all over the world. Airwavz.tv is the first and only company to design and patent Quarterback®, the world’s first digital TV antenna and receiver that enables anyone with a smartphone to get live television broadcast programming straight from TV towers – even if there’s no cell, internet, Wi-Fi or satellite service. Quarterback® satisfies consumers pent-up demand to get free Over-The-Air High-Definition TV on mobiles, with instant access to premium grade TV channels 2 thru 51. Plus, Airwavz.tv is pioneering NextGen TV deployment in the United States with the commercial launch of RedZone Receiver™ the world’s first professional NextGen TV toolkit designed to help broadcasters roll out ATSC 3.0/NextGen TV, which is poised to replace the current US digital TV standard beginning in 2019.
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For information on the 2019 PILOT Pitch Prize, see below.
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Prize
$50,000 SAFE Contract
(Simple Agreement for Future Equity)
- $50,000 with no interest and no expiration date
- Valuation cap of $6 million at the time of conversion to equity
- No discount if the money is converted into equity within six months of winning PILOT Pitch Prize
- 80 percent discount rate if the money is converted after six months
Brand Recognition
As a member of NAB’s Portfolio
- Announcement of the winners at NAB Show New York
- Highlighted placement in NAB’s marketing channels
- Opportunity to present to senior level executives from NAB member companies.
- Exhibit space at NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 2019)
Judges
Mike Chapman
Managing Director, Accenture Strategy
Tim Clarke
Vice President of Audience and Content, Cox Media Group
Lora Dennis
Senior Vice President, Digital Media, NBC
Roger Keating
Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, Hearst Television
Michele Laven
President of Strategic Partnerships Group, iHeartMedia, Inc.
Mentorship
Coaches from the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship are provided our finalists with advice and mentorship as they prepared for their final pitches at NAB Show New York. Find out more about the Dingman Coaches.