CODELAUNCH 2024 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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CODELAUNCH 2024 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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Throughout the year, 4 major events across North America, covering Canada, Mexico, and the United States all lead up to our grand finale – the CodeLaunch “World Championship” event at Gilleys Main Theater stage on November 20th 2024, this event will bring together the 8 best and the fastest-growing startups from our 4 preceding events, providing a platform to showcase their potential to venture capitalists and angel investors from across the continent.

NOTE: All CodeLaunch 2024 Finalists will be eligible to compete in the CodeLaunch World Championship event in Dallas on November 20th, 2024. The World Champion will receive $50,000 in investment funding.

CODELAUNCH 2024 WC INFORMATION

The CodeLaunch 2024 World Championship is a 2-day event hosted by Improving. See below for important information regarding travel and stay. This page will be updated as more information becomes available.

DAY 1 - NOVEMBER 19TH, 2024

FINALISTS AND INVESTORS ONLY – PRIVATE RECEPTION

DAY 2 - NOVEMBER 20TH, 2024

CODELAUNCH LIVE EVENT

WITH A SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE BY RAJIV NATHAN

Rajiv, the “Startup Hypeman,” will be performing songs from his latest album on stage following the CodeLaunch show finale. Be sure to stick around for his set and check out his YouTube channel below to sample his music.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Below is the tentative event schedule for the CodeLaunch World Championship event. This list is subject to change so please refer back for important dates.

LOCAL SPONSORS & PARTNERS

All of the sponsors and partners who have donated in-kind services and provided their support to our CodeLaunch World Championship event.

CODELAUNCH WC 2024 JUDGES & EMCEE

Raheel Malik

Founder, FirstGen Agency

Emcee

Lee Mosbacker

Founder and CEO of Cyrannus
Judge

Nayeli Flores

Founder of Elevated Mindset
Judge

John Davidson

Founder and CEO of DLYCYOUTH
Judge

Alyssa McEwan

Founder and CEO of
Judge

CODELAUNCH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2024 FINALISTS

FINALIST #1

CHAMPION

CodeLaunch HOU 2024

SeekerPitch is a soft skills development and display platform. Allowing jobseekers to stand out from the resume of titles, keywords, and the applicant tracking systems that are screening you based on hard skills. SeekerPitch gives employers a streamlined recruiting process from marketing, identification, and selection with AI features. Create your digital brand with SeekerPitch! SeekerPitch now has 2000 users and has partnerships with over 30 student organizations.

“CodeLaunch is a competition of some of the best and brightest tech startups in the world! They shine a light on you with advancement on your development, business partnerships and a platform to launch from with confidence!”

– Ryan Reisner, Founder SeekerPitch

FINALIST #2

AT-LARGE

CodeLaunch HOU 2024

Endora is revolutionizing wellness by blending the power of nostalgic reflection with casual gaming. A mobile app, Endora takes your stored photos and turns them into personalized, engaging games, promoting mental wellness through gratitude and reflection. Endora goes beyond traditional wellness apps, offering a fun and meaningful way to revisit cherished memories while enhancing your mental health.

“CodeLaunch has been part of Endora’s story from Day 1. Having participated in many accelerators and pitch competitions, we can confidently say that the CodeLaunch experience is truly unique. If you are a startup founder, and especially if you consider yourself to be of the underestimated variety, you will find unparalleled community and startup support here. It is an honor to be part of the CodeLaunch family!”

– Kitty Bogle-Sherman & Coco Harmon, Co-Founders

FINALIST #3

CHAMPION

CodeLaunch MN 2024

VSOD.io is a web+mobile platform for veterinarians to connect with veterinary specialists. Vets use the app to do quick virtual consults with specialists, helping vet clinics keep more revenue in house while delivering better service to pet owners. We’re disrupting veterinary specialty care by solving complex cases in a fraction of the time and cost. We’re looking for angel investors so we can scale operations and deliver a contract for a major university veterinary hospital that kicks off in early 2025. We’re on a fast track to get full integration in every university hospital in the country–where most specialty medicine occurs–and gain industry wide adoption.

“CodeLaunch has been a great accelerator for us – both in our process and in our results. We worked really hard to dial in our messaging and the presentation of our product to win the Codelaunch competition, and we’ve used that messaging and the photos and videos holding up our trophies to great effect. Having those few extra feathers in our cap has helped us secure meetings and deals with some of the biggest names in the veterinary space.”

– Caleb VanDeman, Founder VSOD

FINALIST #4

AT-LARGE

CodeLaunch MN 2024

Welcome Innovations, Inc. is a SaaS company serving 85 million U.S. homeowners and 3 million businesses with its flagship platform, Welcome Home. The platform streamlines home management by centralizing all documentation and communication between homeowners and service providers like builders, realtors, and contractors. Welcome Home provides on-demand access to maintenance guides, service records, and warranties, while consolidating service requests, appointments, and invoices in one customized solution for each home.

“Competing in the CodeLaunch Accelerator cohort was one of the highlights for Welcome Innovations. The experience connected the company with an impressive development team that has since evolved into a strong partnership. Advancing through the CodeLaunch competition elevated our product development, investor messaging and value proposition for our target market. The intense vetting process separates the aspirational entrepreneurs from exciting early-stage business positioned for great success.”

– Scott Roulet, Co-Founder & CEO

FINALIST #5

CHAMPION

CodeLaunch CAN 2024

Materia empowers corporations with the insights and expertise they need to launch sustainable products using biomaterials. Materia’s technology allows brands to launch products faster, smarter and cheaper, reducing both cost and time by 65% or more through our material informatics platform, MAPS. Materia is on a mission to become the go-to R&D workflow tool used by any company transitioning from harmful petroleum based plastics to sustainable biomaterials.

“Overall, it was such a great experience! We got to meet a ton of awesome people, from fellow teams to the amazing coaches at CodeLaunch. Winning the 1st Canadian CodeLaunch cohort felt like a huge validation for what we do as entrepreneurs . We are super excited to have the opportunity to present at the WC in Dallas and put on a great show in front of 750 people!”

– Has De Alwis, Founder

FINALIST #6

AT-LARGE

CodeLaunch CAN 2024

Lodestone is a product management software platform aimed at helping product teams and founders make better product decisions.In a world where product managers, their executive leaders, and startup founders all struggle with determining the correct course of action amidst a myriad of possibilities, Lodestone helps you find your way.

“Being a part of the inaugural cohort of CodeLaunch Canada 2024 was an incredible experience for us at Lodestone. We were definitely challenged and pushed to grow beyond our comfort zone with some of the key activities from the program. We also benefited tremendously from the top notch talent from our development partners during the hackathon. It was an absolute thrill to get up and share our pitch to the broader Canadian tech community, and we are stoked at the chance to tell our story at the World Championships in Dallas! The neck is feeling nice and cozy with the pendant we won, but the waist is now kinda jealous, so we intend to take care of that by grabbing the belt in November!”

– Dennis Chow, Founder

FINALIST #7

CHAMPION

CodeLaunch MX 2024

FIZI is an app that helps drivers in big cities make smart detours to local shops and service providers without leaving their cars. This virtual drive-thru concept promotes the local economy by making neighborhood businesses visible to non-local audiences.

“CodeLaunch has been an experience that brought more than we were expecting. It brought a deep reflection on what we are doing at the core of our entrepreneurship. It helped us to confirm the foundational idea. Everything else should be a consequence of that core idea. Meeting our new friends at Contollo gave us the opportunity to search deep into our code and find ways to make FIZI bring the value we are promising in a significantly stronger way. This was only possible because we did this strategic review. A reset that moved us 2 steps ahead. After winning CodeLaunch Mexico 2024 we are expecting to find the right partners to have a solid launch in Mexico and then escalate this to the rest of the world!”

Benjamin Huerta, Founder

FINALIST #8

AT-LARGE

CodeLaunch MX 2024

AlterGard develops AI-powered tools for customizable video games, enabling players to design levels, missions, and characters while also helping developers streamline content creation.

“Participating in CodeLaunch has been a significant validation for AlterGard. The social media exercises pushed us to step out of stealth mode, which allowed us to finally kick off our fundraising rounds with better-than-expected results so far. We are now looking forward to expanding our network with new international connections to accelerate the growth of our venture. We also want to express our gratitude for the incredible support from the Improving team, whose expertise has been invaluable in helping us develop our application. Thank you again for this opportunity, and we are excited about what lies ahead! What we loved the most was the vibrant style of the event, which breaks away from the traditional, somewhat dull, executive format. It really resonates with us as a video game studio.“

– Founder, Ovidio Escobedo

Visit the World Championship announcement story for more details on this event.

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