The pitch competitors for Will This Float?
› Winner: Other Milk
Founder: Elizabeth Bounds
Business description: Other Milk is an alternative milk brand that makes and delivers oat and pecan milk right to your door.
› Audience Choice
winner: Outshine Adventures + Nomad Be Happy
Founder: Sunshine Loveless (Outshine Adventures) Robby andLindsey Eskridge (Nomad Be Happy)
Business description: Nomad Be Happy is a customizable adventure van rental company focused on promoting the local experience while also promoting our city as a whole around the country. Outshine Adventures is dedicated to providing sustainable ecotours, immersive outdoor experiences and custom travel itineraries that inspire people to adventure differently.
› Company:
The Immersion Gallery
Founder: Kevin Bate
Business description:
The Immersion Gallery is an ever-changing collection of immersive, themed exhibits featuring local artists, sculptors, dancers, animators, poets and more. It’s one part gallery, one part theater, one part funhouse.
› Company: Vintage Outfitting
Founder: Enoch Elwell
Business description: Vintage Outfitting provides curated overlanding adventure rentals of restored vintage Land Rovers and Land Cruisers, perfectly equipped with a rooftop tent, supplies, and pre-planned routes for an authentic vintage overlanding experience.
› Company: Family Scripts
Founder: Hope Henchey
Business description: Family Scripts is a paid weekly newsletter for parents that gives them guidance on how to enrich their kids’ lives.
› Company: Soft Animal
Founder: Charity Painter
Business description: Soft Animal is a mobile safe space specializing in event curation for marginalized people. We seek to celebrate being and create fun experiences by hosting events that cater to the “soft animals of our bodies.”
› Company: Scenic City Broadway Dinner Theater
Founder: Garry Posey
Business description: Scenic City Broadway is a dinner and theater company catering to Chattanooga tourists.
› Company: Restore Furniture Ltd. Co.
Founder: Alex Stayte Business description: Restore Furniture is dedicated to building quality, artistic, durable furniture from recycled plastic waste. We believe that our products will genuinely make an impact on the plastic pollution crisis through the purchasing of plastic waste as a primary material for a long-lasting product.
› The judges
Adrienne Cooper, founder and CEO of Moonlight Roller Erin Felton Lopez, Etsy Inc. Strategy and Analytics, MBA Meilani Santillán, program director at Code for America Jay Shaffer, angel investor and board member of Atlanta Tech Angels