We Graduated from the CIC Social Impact Growth Stage Cohort and Won Judge’s Choice for Best Pitch! 🏆🎤

We’re thrilled to share a milestone that means a lot to our team and our mission: we’ve officially graduated from the CIC Social Impact Growth Stage Cohort and we were honored to receive the Judge’s Choice Award for Best Pitch. This recognition isn’t just a trophy on the shelf; it’s fuel for everything we’re building next.

Why this matters

Programs like CIC’s Growth Stage Cohort don’t just hand you frameworks and slides, they pressure-test your vision. Over the course of the cohort, we refined how we talk about impact, sharpened our go-to-market strategy, and stress-tested the metrics that prove what we do actually moves the needle. The feedback from mentors, judges, and fellow founders helped us get clearer, faster, and bolder.

What we took away

1. Sharper storytelling. We distilled our “why,” “why now,” and “why us” into a narrative that resonates with customers, partners, and investors without losing the heart of the problem we’re solving.

2. Stronger impact framework. We emerged with a crisper theory of change, clearer KPIs, and a roadmap for measuring outcomes, not just activity.

3. A community that keeps giving. The cohort connected us with founders solving real, hard problems, people who challenged our assumptions and generously shared playbooks.

The pitch moment

Winning the Judge’s Choice Award for Best Pitch was an unexpected and energizing validation. It told us that our problem is urgent, our approach is differentiated, and our team is ready to execute. Most importantly, it affirmed that the impact we’re targeting is not only necessary, it’s achievable.

Thank you

Huge gratitude to:

• CIC for curating a rigorous, mission-aligned program.

• The mentors who donated their time and expertise to help us tighten our strategy.

• The judges for the thoughtful questions and the recognition.

• Our fellow founders for the candid feedback, late-night brainstorms, and shared wins.

We’re grateful, we’re energized, and, most importantly, we’re just getting started. 💪🌍

Thank you for believing in us. Onward.