You can pitch too at UTS Venture Day and UTS Startup Awards

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In 2022 for the first time, UTS Startups and the UTS Business School Venture Day are teaming up for our annual UTS Startups Festival. It is an opportunity to meet student entrepreneurs, hear them pitch their ventures and mingle with peers. With over $90,000 in awards and prize money, the event is one of Australia's best-endowed student entrepreneurship pitch events.

Any UTS student entrepreneur and alumni can enter the event. In 2022 Venture Day was organised in two preliminary pitch rounds (heats) and a final pitch event at the UTS Great Hall. If you are a UTS student or alumni, you can enter the event and submit your application.

For any inquiries regarding the UTS Venture Day, email us at ventureday@uts.edu.au

Entry Requirements

Key Dates

Guidance

Your Venture Day pitch should be more an investment pitch than a sales pitch. Potential investors or partners and Venture Day judges will expect your material to address the following key areas:

Problem: A description of the problem that you identified and justifying why it is a problem worth solving. This may include a definition of the scope, reach and size of the problem, description of user experiences, pain points, stakeholder interests and the impact that the lack of a better solution has on society, economies and people's lives.
Solution: A description and validation of how you propose to solve the problem. This may include a description of prototypes, features, customer journeys, functionalities, benefits and proof of how the solution can work at scale to solve the problem.
Use cases: A description of how your solution has been used or trialled by different kinds of users, industries or different situations. Use cases provide proof of how your solution has worked in a specific context.
Market: A description and analysis of the size and needs of the market you are addressing. This may include results from desk research, qualitative and quantitative user needs analysis, segmentation, user profiles as well as a description of how the addressable market is distributed.
Competitors: A description and analysis of the competitive situation including key competitors, competing for products/services and analysis on features as well as competitors' comparative strength and weaknesses, capabilities and growth projections.
Business model: A description and justification for the business model you validated to best suit your start-up. This includes justification and validation of revenue-generating mechanisms and key drivers for costs, sales and distribution.
Traction: Proof of success in the market that you are addressing, which may include customer feedback, proof of sales, marketing, online traffic, positive reactions, anything that proves that what you do is leading towards a working business model.
Partners: Identification of key partners that are helping to build your venture and a description of the existing or anticipated relationship.
Financials: The basic financial information and estimations that will give investors and advisors a sense of your business. This may include market data, cash flow, pricing, sales, investments, cost drivers, etc.
Team: This is about you and the team and how each individual contributes to the venture. This may also include any identified capability and knowledge gaps that need to be filled.
Road map: Your plan for the next 3, 6, and 12 months includes major stepping stones and goals.
Ask: What you need most at this moment in time, which may include funding but could just as well be advice or access to technology or introductions to people that you think can help you.

Judging Criteria

The combination of originality and ingenuity, plus a disciplined approach showed the value of a program such as this.

- Paul Thorley, Director of Partnership Strategy, Greenwich Capital Partners

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