Aspiring local entrepreneurs with ideas for exciting new businesses have until midnight Monday, October 3 to submit their application to become contestant in Savannah SCORE’s “BizPitch Savannah™ 2022” Entrepreneurial Competition. A kinder, gentler version of TV’s “Shark Tank”, “BizPitch Savannah™”, now in its fifth year, offers aspiring local entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges for the chance to win cash and free professional business services valued at more than $10,000.

Applicants’ businesses can either be a new start-up or have obtained a Chatham County business license after July 31, 2021. Applicants must agree to locate their new business in Chatham County and launch their new business by 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”.