SXSW Pitch is a platform to allow early-stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel, Investors. Five companies will dazzle a live audience, a panel of judges with their ideas, innovations, product, and/or service on Sunday, March 13th in Salon DE on the 4th floor of the Hilton Hotel. We will announce all category winners at the SXSW Pitch Awards Ceremony on Sunday, March 13th at 5:30 pm in Salon H on the 6th floor of the Hilton Hotel.

Innovative World Technologies This category is for any creative and innovative application, product, or service that does not fit in another SXSW Pitch category, as well as technologies that act as the infrastructure that new technologies are built on. Examples that might fit into this category include (but are not limited to) Payment and FinTech, NFT/Blockchain, Space and Aerospace, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Pet Tech, Cannabusiness, Sustainability, Drones, Home Refinancing, Quantum Computing, and Computer Chip Technology, Energy, and others.