{"id":47986,"date":"2025-07-08T06:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47986\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T06:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:28:10","slug":"eosera-pitch-competition-opens-nationwide-42-5k-in-prizes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47986\/","title":{"rendered":"Eosera\u00ae Pitch Competition Opens Nationwide | $42.5K in Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The eosera\u00ae\u00a0Foundation is opening applications for its fourth annual eosera\u00ae\u00a0Foundation Pitch Competition<\/a>\u00a0this week, and this year\u2019s event will be offered to a much wider audience and with a larger cash prize available for the first-place winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That makes it bigger and better.<\/p>\n

The foundation is expanding the competition to women across the U.S. who have been in business for three years or less, rather than entrepreneurs just in Texas.<\/p>\n

Applications will open Tuesday \u2014 July 8 \u2014 and close\u00a0Sept. 9\u00a0\u2014 or once the maximum number of entries has been received.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal was always to eventually have a larger reach and invite more women to apply for this exciting opportunity,\u201d said eosera\u00ae\u00a0co-founder and CEO\u00a0Elyse Stoltz Dickerson in a statement.<\/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’s choice award.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The eosera\u00ae Foundation Pitch Competition will culminate with a live finale on Nov. 13 at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Three finalists will deliver their business pitches to a distinguished panel of judges and live audience, competing for funding that has the potential to revolutionize their ventures.<\/p>\n

Sponsors for the event include iHeart Impact and\u00a0Simmons Bank, as well as a host of other generous contributors.\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

“The 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,” Dickerson said.<\/p>\n

Before Dickerson and business partner Joe Griffin got eosera\u00ae products onto retail shelves, they had spent months in a laboratory on the campus of the UNT Health Science Center, where they had leased space. During that time, they had worked repeatedly with all kinds of earwax and had finally found one formula they had developed that worked consistently on the various kinds of earwax.<\/p>\n

Having collected \u201crobust test tube data,\u201d it was time to run a human clinical trial, but the principals of this self-funded project winced just a little when they were told the price tag of this part of research and development: $50,000.<\/p>\n

As fate would have it, the Dallas Entrepreneur Center and Comerica Bank were hosting a pitch competition.<\/p>\n

Dickerson entered<\/a> and nailed it. The top prize: $50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The eosera\u00ae\u00a0Foundation is opening applications for its fourth annual eosera\u00ae\u00a0Foundation Pitch Competition\u00a0this week, and this year\u2019s event will…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,9604,36838,7371,11095,7372,36837,358,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-47986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-entrepreneurs","10":"tag-eosera","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fort-worth-inc-staff","13":"tag-fortworth","14":"tag-pitch-competition","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-top-story","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114816201874046215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}