{"id":35605,"date":"2021-05-18T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=35605"},"modified":"2021-11-08T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T15:08:33","slug":"apps-technology-innovations-win-top-honors-at-miami-herald-startup-pitch-competitions-fiu-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2021\/05\/apps-technology-innovations-win-top-honors-at-miami-herald-startup-pitch-competitions-fiu-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps, technology innovations win top honors at Miami Herald Startup Pitch Competition\u2019s FIU Track."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Apps,<\/p>\n

Now in its 20th<\/sup>\u00a0year as South Florida\u2019s signature entrepreneurship outreach competition, the\u00a0Miami Herald Startup Pitch Competition\u00a0named two FIU Business alumni entries and a student team as winners in its FIU Track.<\/p>\n

First place went to FIU Business alumna Nadia Davis for\u00a0Show Agents, an app designed to connect realtors to licensed showing agents in their area, thereby freeing up their time while giving them updates on the status of showings.<\/p>\n

FIU MBA alumna Laura Borland and Sean Hale won second place for\u00a0PodPic,\u00a0which tracks a package delivery in photos. It is designed to protect e-commerce companies, logistics companies and last-mile delivery companies from being wrongfully charged for theft and damage claims by showing where and when a package may have been damaged.<\/p>\n

\"Miami<\/p>\n

Third went to\u00a0Weighted Luggage, submitted by FIU Business students Indira Nunez and Ernesto Ramos, along with Adena Green, an FIU biology major who\u2019s also in the entrepreneurship certificate program. The students, who often travel internationally, drew up a plan for rugged luggage with an LCD screen and built-in scale that could enable travelers to avoid the need to unpack and repack overweight luggage at the airline ticket counter.<\/p>\n

For the FIU Track, students, alumni and faculty who submit ideas, pitch decks and strategy are eligible to compete, while those who pursue the pitch competition\u2019s Community Track must submit viable products. Judges for the FIU Track were Juan Carlos Abello, creator of the\u00a0Nuvola app<\/a>;\u00a0Seema Pissaris<\/a>, serial entrepreneur and FIU Business clinical professor;\u00a0Orlando Espinosa<\/a>, co-founder of Emineo Media; and\u00a0Karlene Cousins,<\/a>\u00a0chair and associate professor of information systems and business analytics at FIU Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now in its 20th\u00a0year as South Florida\u2019s signature entrepreneurship outreach competition, the\u00a0Miami Herald Startup Pitch Competition\u00a0named two FIU Business alumni entries and a student team as winners in its FIU Track. First place went to FIU Business alumna Nadia Davis for\u00a0Show Agents, an app designed to connect realtors to licensed showing agents in their area, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":35609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4503],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36167,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35605\/revisions\/36167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}