Today PR Solutions LLC announced the winners of the third annual i.Invest National Youth Business Competition. Four teams consisting of youth entrepreneurs, 13 to 19 years-old from across the U.S. have been selected to receive cash and in-kind prizes after successfully completing a six-month web-based mentoring program and competition that included three rounds of scoring led by business and academic leaders from organizations, including: Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Un

Professional growth is essential to the success of an entrepreneur. Regardless of their age or background, no entrepreneur succeeds alone. It is this belief that inspires the i.Invest Competition to recruit judges and mentors with various experiences to help us shine a light on business development, innovation and creativity. It is also this belief that made working with New Orleans economic development professional, Alejandra Guzman, and others like her, the best choice when

Richa Krishna, 17, of Los Altos, CA along with her team members, William Barkoff, 16 of New York, NY and Anna Pertl, 17, of Munich, Germany are one of this year’s competitors in the i.Invest National Youth Business Competition. The team, who met at the 2017 MIT Launch Entrepreneurship Program, are the co-founders of Pulse Wearables, a startup company working to develop a potential life-saving wearable patch that will give people limited by heart conditions peace of mind. We s

Brown University student, Winnie McCabe and Babson College student, Marc Baghadjian, both 19, are one of this year’s competitors in the i.Invest National Youth Business Competition. Their startup, Skippit, is a dating platform that uses video and voice, and a slew of other features, to build intimate connections. McCabe spoke with us about the business venture: Tell us about your business. Skippit is an iOS voice/video calling speed-dating platform for users ages 19-28 lookin

Miracle Olatunji, 18, of New Castle, DE is one of this year’s competitors in the i.Invest National Youth Business Competition. Olatunji is the founder of OpportuniMe, a technology startup with the mission to help high schools and their students by democratizing access and exposure to quality experiential learning, enrichment, and employment opportunities for passion, career, and self-discovery. We spoke with Olatunji to learn more about her business venture: Tell us about you

Navami Jain, 17, Megan Wu, 17, Michelle Bao, 17 and Vincent Xia, 18 of Durham, North Carolina are one of this year’s competitors in the i.Invest National Youth Business Competition. Their company, Trofi, is a sustainability-driven venture that aims to reduce food waste while simultaneously offering new nutritional value to livestock farmers and their animals. Tell us about your business. Trofi’s online platform will enable suppliers of food by-products, such as fruit and vege

Learn about the recent achievements of past i.Invest participants. Class of 2016 Sunrise Health (formerly Beacon Health), is a mobile platform that uses artificial intelligence to offer anonymity and support to those suffering from mental health issues. The company, co-founded by Shrenik Jain of Baltimore, MD, now 21, was i.Invest's Youth Business of the Year in 2016. Since participating in the competition, Sunrise Health has expanded its staff, received $100k in paid pilots,

Tell us about your current job, why you do what you do and how it prepares you to mentor youth and youth entrepreneurs? I serve as the Entrepreneurship Instructor at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts (ASMSA). ASMSA is one of sixteen public, residential high schools in the country specializing in the education of talented and motivated students who have an interest and aptitude for mathematics and science as well as a passion for creativity, humanitie