Sponsors include People’s United Bank, Opticliff Law, the City of South Portland, the South Portland Economic Development Committee, and Southern Maine Community College. For more information, check out the city’s website. The competition is open to small businesses (defined as those with less than $100,000 in annual revenue, whether incorporated or not) based in South Portland, Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth, and Westbrook. There will be two more semifinal pitch events, Sept. The third contestant was Richard Reynolds of GTFO Escape Room, one of several “Escape Room” companies in southern Maine. Luke Thomas, founder of Friday Feedback, won second place, $250, and a spot in the final event. Two other startup founders pitched at the inaugural event. 4 at a yet-to-be-determined location in South Portland. McNeally’s successful pitch came with $750 and a spot in the grand finale event, which takes place on Oct. Win at Startup South Portland From L to R: Luke Thomas of Friday Feedback, the runner-up Adam Nyhan of Opticliff Law, one of the organizers and Allegra McNeally of Apricart, the winner.(Photo/Katie Shorey) But it gained some exposure this week when Co-founder Allegra McNeally pitched the company’s smart shopping cart product, which it calls Apricart, at the inaugural Startup South Portland pitch contest, and won. The company, called Blynk Technology, has flown under the radar since it was founded this spring. You know that feeling when you spend a productive and efficient 45 minutes loading your shopping cart with the groceries you carefully included on your shopping list only to turn a corner and see the checkout lines backed up and so choking the main aisles that you can’t even get your cart through the crowd?Ī new Maine startup wants to solve that problem by developing smart shopping carts that act not only as convenient wheeled contraptions to hold your groceries, but also as the point-of-sale terminal, eliminating the need to ever wait in a check-out line again.
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