Futurestay at UPitchNJ 2018
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – April 26, 2018 – Futurestay CEO, S. Philip Kennard is selected to be a judge at UPitchNJ’s 2018 pitch competition. “UPitchNJ is sponsored by the New Jersey Collegiate Entrepreneurship Consortium, which represents the entrepreneurship education programs at New Jersey’s four-year colleges and universities.”
This year, Montclair State University hosted the UPitchNJ competition.
14 teams from the following colleges pitched for the first place prize of $2,000: Drew University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Monmouth University, Montclair State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Rider University, Rowan University, Rutgers University, Saint Peter’s University, Seton Hall University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and William Paterson University.
UPitch NJ Judges
Futurestay CEO, S. Philip Kennard was invited to be one of the judges this year. The other entrepreneurial judges for the competition were:
- Jackson Jeyanayagam, Chief Marketing Officer at Boxed
- Jessica Gonzalez, Founder & CEO of InCharged
- Kimberly Weisul, Editor-At-Large, Inc.com
- Elizabeth Vilchis, Founder & CEO, latinoTech
Check out some of the event highlights
The winning teams
Congratulations to all the teams who competed. The list of teams who placed in the four categories include:
- Living Waters — First Place
- League of Lifeguards — Second Place
- NeatSweeps — Audience Choice & Third Place
- Dowie Corp — Best Early Stage Startup
“Given the combination of universities, financial institutions and successful startups, New Jersey is one of the best places in the nation for entrepreneurship to flourish.” — Greg Olsen, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Princeton University.
About Futurestay
Launched in 2014, Futurestay works with over 100,000+ vacation rental properties in over 120 countries. Futurestay’s Smart Connection™ technology connects everything that matters to a vacation rental business — from listings on channels like HomeAway, Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking.com — to reservations, calendars, direct websites, and more. With Smart Connections™, rental businesses easily connect to global guests while seamlessly automating guest communications, payments, channel auditing, and more. It’s free to sign up and get started.
Contact
Kristen Martinelli
Marketing Coordinator
kmartinelli@futurestay.com
888 885 3439 x 3 US EST
About Futurestay
Futurestay pioneered the first operating system designed to empower rentalpreneurs with the connectivity and automation previously out of reach for everyday people running short-term rentals. Building on its promise to help rentalpreneurs succeed at any stage, Futurestay is so much more than a platform, offering anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit and a room to rent the chance to learn, earn and grow at every stage of their rentalpreneur journey.
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