Dominion Energy Innovation Center is adding a new category to its annual pitch competition.
Applications are open through Feb. 1, for the fifth annual Center Street Pitch Competition hosted by the DEIC and Randolph-Macon College EDGE Career Center.
The event typically includes pitches from three different competitive tracks: energy or sustainability related businesses, Randolph-Macon student ideas, and a general startup category. DEIC Director Adam Sledd said for the upcoming 2022 competition, the general startup category will be replaced with with agribusiness-related innovators.
“Hanover (County) has been an agriculture-focused community for a long time,” he said. “It’s still a place where you have a lot of farmers and food being produced and land being used in a lot of ways.”
Sledd said DEIC is inviting innovators from the surrounding area to pitch startup ideas for the Ag-Enterprise category. He said they’re looking for folks who can excite judges by doing something…
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