Purpose Pitch Competition

Student Category

• First place: Victoria Martin del Campo Cano, undergraduate honors student studying entrepreneurship at the Driehaus College of Business. | Let’s Link, an app for student commuters to connect and ride together to decrease the risk of public transit.
• Second place: Edward Sanchez, undergraduate honors student studying management and finance at the Driehaus College of Business. | PagoPay, a project designed to facilitate the transfer of money between the U.S. and Ecuador.
• Third place: Tom Leamon, an undergraduate student studying computer science at DePaul. | AVsync.LIVE, an app program to enhance music and video experiences.

Alumni Category

• First place: Rocco Guarino (BUS '18) | Meals from the Heart, which has supported frontline health care workers with more than 750 individually packaged, donor-signed homemade meals.
• Second place | All Together, a design studio focused on community branding, engagement and placemaking. All Together takes big picture ideas through a participatory process and turn them into community-backed realities.
• Third place: Jessie Amga (BUS '18) | EcoSolves, a company designed to help people take a direct part in decreasing the plastic and micro-plastic pollution in the world by providing single-use bathroom products without the plastic packaging.

• Bevon Joseph (MS '19) | Greenwood Project, a nonprofit that builds a diversity pipeline for minority students to get into the financial services industry.
• Dianna Harris (MFA '15, MS '18) | The Corner, a small business incubator and collaborative space for Southside Chicagoans.
• Badar Al Lawati (MS '11) | BridgeLink, which mediates the process of fair-employment through a platform designed specifically for refugees and employers.
• Kevin Sofen (MBA '16) | Wristponsible, a startup that raises awareness and funds for grassroots water projects by creating a community of action.
• Ari Carter and Peyton Pritikin | Cloche, an online investment platform developed by millennial women for millennial women.
• Evan Mahoney (BA '07) | Profile Peace, a social media closure and memorialization service that helps social media users lay online profiles to rest.

• Ann Foley (LAS ’99) | 10th Avenue Tea, which delivers instant matcha tea powder in a patent-pending eco-friendly shaker bottle.
• Esteban Perez (BUS '18) | Universala Esports, a community-centered business with the goal of providing e-sports centers for young people throughout Chicago and beyond.
• Savy Leiser (MA '19) | The Furever Home Friends, a series of children’s books that tell the stories of real shelter dogs and teaches kids about social issues.
• Adero Knott (BA '13) | AK Prosthetics, tech-driven prosthetic limb company that empowers people and builds confidence through customized and easily accessible prosthetics.

• Elizabeth (MBA '15) and Melissa Ames | EarlyVention, a subscription services company that designs comprehensive activity boxes with visual, sensory and interactive components for children with autism and special needs.