SVP Dallas 2024 Fast Pitch Competition Application
Social Venture Partners Dallas (SVP Dallas) invests in mission-driven, for-profit companies that use market forces to help address social inequality and injustice in our community and elsewhere. While any impact-oriented company may be considered, we particularly focus on companies in housing & community development, legal & justice technology, financial equity, education & workforce development, food justice, and fair access to health/wellness. We generally participate in Pre-seed and Seed stages but are open to investing in mature companies. We are especially alert to companies with founders, principal shareholders, or senior team members from historically underrepresented populations.
Three companies will be invited to pitch in person at the bigBANG! 2024 Conference to be held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on Friday, October 25th, sponsored by SVP Dallas. All three companies invited to pitch will receive 1 complimentary all-conference pass. Companies will be pitching in front of bigBANG! 2024 attendees, SVP Dallas Partners, and guests.* The winning company will receive a $25,000 equity and/or debt investment from SVP Dallas Impact*. The two runners-up companies will each receive a $1,000 grant for participating.
The application will be open from August 15th and the deadline is Tuesday, September 10th. In addition to the questionnaire below, a copy of your pitch deck and high-level financial projections must be emailed to Seth Block (sblock@svpdallas.org). Down-selected semi-finalists will be notified on Tuesday, September 17th, and asked to join a Zoom interview with a committee of SVP Dallas Partners and staff within the following three weeks. The three selected Fast Pitch Finalists will be chosen and notified by Tuesday, October 8th. If selected, as a finalist, the Company commits to taking part in person at bigBANG! Fast Pitch event on Friday, October 25th, at the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas.
Participating companies must be an incorporated business and should have an open funding instrument: either a term sheet for a priced round, a convertible note, or other financing document. If the company does not have these then they should be willing to accept the investment using the most current unaltered Y Combinator post-money SAFE template found here: https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/.
For further information contact Seth Block at sblock@svpdallas.org
*SVP Dallas Impact is not an accredited investor as defined by the Securities Act of 1933 but will provide, upon request, representation to the winner to indicate that SVP Dallas Impact meets the necessary sophistication requirements in Regulation D, Rule 506 to invest in start-ups.