{"id":105503,"date":"2025-07-30T18:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/105503\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:41:13","slug":"eosera-foundation-pitch-competition-opens-to-wider-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/105503\/","title":{"rendered":"Eosera Foundation Pitch Competition opens to wider audience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years since launching its first ever pitch competition, the eosera\u00ae\u00a0Foundation has opened applications for the\u00a0eosera\u00ae\u00a0Foundation Pitch Competition<\/a>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0this time to a much wider audience, and with a larger cash prize available for the first-place winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re so excited to expand the competition this year to women across\u00a0the United States,\u201d said eosera\u00a0co-founder and CEO,\u00a0Elyse Stoltz Dickerson. \u201cThe first three years, we really focused on entrepreneurs here in\u00a0Texas, but our goal was always to eventually have a larger reach and invite more women to apply for this exciting opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, the pitch competition is open to women from around\u00a0the United States\u00a0who have been in business for three years or less. Applications will close\u00a0Sept. 9, or once the maximum number of entries has been received.<\/p>\n

The overall earnings available this year are\u00a0$42,500, with\u00a0$30,000\u00a0offered for the first-place award,\u00a0$5,000\u00a0for the second-place award,\u00a0$2,500\u00a0for the third-place award, and\u00a0$5,000\u00a0for the people\u2019s choice award.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stoltz Dickerson\u00a0co-founded ear care company,\u00a0eosera<\/a>\u00ae, in 2015 and was able to use seed money from a pitch competition she won to help get the company off the ground. Ten years later, the company has grown into an ear care empire, with ear drops and sprays sold in more than 28,000 stores nationwide.<\/p>\n

Dickerson credits her success to having financial support and mentorship during the early stages of eosera\u00ae.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact of the matter is that we would not have been able to be so successful in the beginning had it not been for us winning a pitch competition,\u201d Dickerson said.<\/p>\n

The eosera\u00ae\u00a0Foundation Pitch Competition will culminate in a live competition on\u00a0Nov. 13, 2025, at the Kimbell Art Museum in\u00a0Fort Worth, Texas. Three finalists will present their pitches to a panel of judges and a live audience at a chance to win funding that could transform their businesses and launch their futures. This year\u2019s competition is made possible thanks to the generous support of iHeart Impact and\u00a0Simmons Bank, as well as a host of other generous contributors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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