Celebrating Excellence: Top Winners of #SurvivorX and #Survivors Shine at SoCal Startup Day!

Congratulations to our Top Three #SurvivorX #Survivors!

🥇First Place Nicholas Cupps, Davy Gas
🥈Second Place Allan McNichol, Zuno Medical
🥉Third Place John Ashley, Auctus Surgical

Nearly 100 founders took the stage during the #LightningRound ⚡ for 30 seconds of stage time to fast-pitch their startups. Karen Caswelch, Jesse Lee Despard, and MerchCall co-Founders Matt Chait and @daniel bremmer advanced to the Semi-Finals!

Founders in the Semi-Finals had 90 seconds to pitch to our Community Panel Judges Cynthia West, Ph.D., Tony Crisp 🚀, Scott Fox 🦊, Faisal Mushtaq, Bill Carpou, and David Ochi.

Congrats to all Semi-Finalists Irvinei, Peman Montazemi, MSEME, MSMAE, MSBME, MBA, Socialprofiler, Justin Couto, Hezi Korn, Don Buckner, Michael Freeman, J.D., Money Talks Winner 💰 Olivia Rutman, CTP, and more who were on stage to the esteemed Investor Panel Judges with representatives Pat Hwang of TCA Venture Group, Mike Krebs of Pasadena Angels, John Bradley Jackson of Titan Angels LLC, Xandra Laskowski of OSEA Angel Investors, Mark Kapczynski, @guarav kumar of @tieangels, and @darren eng of Los Angeles Venture Association

We are grateful to work alongside Stephen Silver at SoCal Startup Day. #SCSD24

Thank you to Irvine Mayor Farrah N. Khan for your continued support of Irvine's #FundableFounders! #growthOC

s/o to our sponsors Veritone Pivotal Law Firm, Inc. UCI ANTrepreneur Center Startup Steroid - Deal Flow | SPVs | Demo Day Platform Orange County OC Startup Council Liquid Death Chapman University, and for the SurvivorX branding CRISPx | brand marketing agency

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