Nashville Entrepreneur Day showcases 90 area founders on simultaneous pitch stages
More than 90 companies, 103 founders, and hundreds of investors, advisors, and community members packed into GEODIS Park for a day full of pitch presentations.
GEODIS Park, for the second time this year, was packed with entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, and community supporters for the Winter rendition of Nashville Entrepreneur Day. The bi-annual spotlight features the founders who have gone through one of the five Nashville Entrepreneur Center (NEC) accelerator programs.
The founders presented on four curated pitch tracks:
- B2B Services & Technology
- Consumer Services & Products
- Healthcare
- Fintech
A special group of selected founders also pitched as finalists for the Impact Grants. Impact Grants are non-dilutive cash awards totaling $40,000, given to outstanding founders in NEC’s Fall 2025 accelerator cohorts. The grants are split up by $25,000 (first), $10,000 (second), or $5,000 (third). These awards celebrate founders who demonstrate exceptional potential. They were scored for the competition based on vision clarity, execution plans, business traction, and coachability.
The companies pitching for Impact Grants included:
- Adele Health, founded by Mark Norton (read more from Adele’s pitch at 3868).
- Avenue, founded by Heather and Matthew Utzig
- Docktron, founded by Sam Titus and DJ Crandall
- Harding House Brewing Company, founded by Nate Underwood
- Mommy’s Baby Buggy, founded by Isabella Greathouse
- Montgomery Road Inc., founded by Darius Montgomery
- One Connection Counseling Center, PC, founded by Dr. Tonya McKoy
- Pebble, founded by Aaron Jordan
- Repped in tech, founded by Dr. Teresa Vasquez and Trinity Christiana Terry
- Senior Shield Technologies, founded by Kareem Elfoulie
Before the pitches kicked off, attendees got to hear from Jamari Brown, the Senior Director of Economic and Community Development for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, and Nathan Buttrey, the Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD), about the economic impact of entrepreneurship across the city and state.
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