May 7, 2016

Accelerate Your Wellness Startup At The BOW Pitch Contest

We’re celebrating innovation in the wellness industry with The Business of Wellness Pitch Contest — a unique opportunity for wellness startups and entrepreneurs to kickstart their business and accelerate growth.

As part of our Business of Wellness Summit in London on 4th June; a groundbreaking event bringing together 500 influencers and change-makers to discuss the future of the wellness industry, the BOW Pitch Contest will give three ‘standout’ wellness startups the chance to pitch to a live panel of investors and compete to win a prize pool of specially curated business services.

The panel of investors have backed world class startups like Spotify, ADAY, Naked Juice, Genesis Today, Yplan, Hello and BitPay.

“Our greater ambition through BOW Summit is to create a platform for early stage entrepreneurs to connect with investors and business leaders,” explained BOW Summit co-founder Andrea DeBellis.

“We see the pitch contest as a fantastic opportunity for startups to bring their ideas to life in front of a very targeted audience, and will offer fantastic prizes to the winner of the contest to help them accelerate their venture.”

Receiving a “BOW Kickstart” bundle of prizes, which includes an exclusive set of coaching and mentoring services, the full winner’s package will include:

  • Workspace at one of WeWork’s prime co-working spaces.
  • 50% discount on 12 months of XERO Accounting Services.
  • A consultation with industry leading lawyers, Bird & Bird, tailored to your business, covering topics including brand management, trade mark, registered design and domain name strategy and potential business growth structures.
  • A mentoring session with experts at retail, consumer and innovation incubator, TrueStart.
  • 3 months of communications services from award winning PR specialists Rebecca Abigail Public Relations.
  • A pop up certificate from pioneers in the pop up market, Appear Here.
  • Innovation Research and Advisory firm Stylus‘ Business of Wellbeing Macro Book.
  • Consideration for early entry into the Innovation Warehouse Investor Ready Programme (TBD).
  • Company branding services from our branding partners.
  • Editorial coverage on Welltodo.
  • Feedback from and exposure to an audience of active investors and other entrepreneurs.

Business of Wellness Summit Pitch Contest Parters - Submissions Now Open

“We are very excited to be involved in the BOW summit,” explained TrueStart associate, Kalinka Kay.

“As retail and consumer sector specialists we see a lot of startups in the space, be it a fitness app or a healthy consumer product, and definitely think it is worthwhile to have a forum dedicated to investing in wellness.”

Open to startups that are solving a problem in the wellness space, creating a new market or disrupting an existing market, if you are a startup that has been in business for less than two years, and has had no more than $500k in funding, you may be in with a chance to bring your idea to life in front of an audience of industry experts and potential investors.

Led by a judging panel including Charlie Kemper, Entrepreneurial Venture Capital Investor; Shakil Khan, co founder at student.com and investor in Spotify, Yplan, Hello; Baz Saidiah, CEO at TrueStart – whose portfolio includes ADAY and VITL; Emma Green, Intellectual Property Solicitor at Bird & Bird; and Meeta Gournay, Partner & Angel Investor at Prehype, a venture development firm; the BOW Pitch Contest has the potential to take your wellness brand to the next level.

*Submission for the BOW Pitch Contest close on 15th May at 5pm BST*

Head to www.thisisbow.com contest to complete your online submission form and if you meet all of the eligibility requirements you will be contacted by a member of the BOW Team with further details.

For more details regarding eligibility and rules, please visit: www.thisisbow.com/contest