The SCORE Savannah BizPitch Application Window is Closing Soon – Deadline is Oct. 3rd

Don’t you want to win $10,000 for your small business? Time is running out to submit your application for SCORE’s BizPitch Savannah 2022 Entrepreneurial Competition!

Applicants’ businesses can either be a new startup or have obtained a Chatham County business license after July 31, 2021. You must agree to locate your new business in Chatham County and launch no later than January 1, 2024. A non-refundable $25 application fee is payable at the time the application is submitted. 

Eight applicants will be selected as finalists. They will be trained on how to make an effective business pitch, will be partnered with a Savannah SCORE Mentor, and will pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges on Wednesday, November 16.

Three winners will be selected. Each will receive cash and free professional services valued at more than $10,000 to help them launch their new local businesses.

Competition Rules and Requirements as well as the Online Application are available at http://bizpitchsavannah.com. The deadline for submitting applications is midnight, Monday, October 3.

“BizPitch Savannah™ 2022” is presented by the Savannah Chapter of SCORE, the nation’s largest provider of free business mentoring services and educational programs for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Savannah SCORE was named SCORE’s “2019 Mid-Market Chapter of the Year,” is one of the only Diamond Level SCORE chapters in the country, and was named the 2021 “Outstanding Chapter for Community Partnerships.”

Savannah SCORE thanks our sponsors for their generous support of “BizPitch Savannah™ 2022”

Platinum Level Sponsor: Truist
Silver Level Sponsors : Small Business Assistance Corporation, WJCL, Coastal Care Partners
Bronze Level Sponsors: City of Savannah Economic Development Department; Savannah
Economic Development Authority (SEDA); Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce; First Chatham Bank; Great Oaks Bank; Brody-Frohn Wealth Management Advisors of Wells Fargo; Cadence Bank

For more information about “BizPitch Savannah”, contact SCORE at bizpitchsavannah@gmail.com.
For more information about SCORE’s free business mentoring services, go to https://savannah.score.org.

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