{"id":19313,"date":"2023-02-16T08:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/?p=19313"},"modified":"2023-02-16T08:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:38:04","slug":"umni-with-a-2nd-place-in-the-pitch2pitch-startup-competition-by-netwotking-premium-coworking-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/umninews\/umni-with-a-2nd-place-in-the-pitch2pitch-startup-competition-by-netwotking-premium-coworking-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Umni with a 2nd place in the Pitch2Pitch startup competition by Netwotking Premium Coworking Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Pitching at Pitch2Pitch startup competition was not new to Umni. In July\u20192019 we participated in the 2nd season of this monthly startup competition by pitching Umni platform as an idea inspired by the city AI chatbot that our team have created for the visitors of Plovdiv as a European Capital of Culture \u2013 Plovdiv City AI Concierge, and we won the 1st place for the month of July.<\/p>\n<p>Then in September\u20192020, at the Grand Finale Pitch among the winners of the past year, Umni came in the top 3 companies. At that time, we were doing the first steps with Umni as functioning platform, just created the centralized AI module as a concept and technologically and had the first customers using conversational AI in their chatbots on our platform.<\/p>\n<p>Today Umni not only have working platform and customers who are with us for years and have great results using AI chatbot, but we are getting ready to release a new version of our platform that will be a game changer for the businesses with AI chatbot on their site.<\/p>\n<p>We are extremely happy that our successful track record in this premium startup pitching event remain unbroken! Umni won the 2nd place!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Emil Shekerdzhiiski for inviting us to join the stage at NETWORKING Premium Coworking Spaces with the professional support of Founder Institute and all participants for the opportunity to share about the work and successes of Umni and for the challenge to do it in 1 minute!<\/p>\n<p>The judges always play a crucial role in a pitch competition. It is their questions and attention to details, their curiosity, and the challenges they raise to founders that make us grow, be stronger and help the auditory understand better the business behind the 1-minute pitch. Respect to Viktor Manev &#8211; IMPETUS Capital, Borislav Borislavov &#8211; Former CEO at DSK Ventures and Bulgarian Angel Association, Stoyan Nedin and Kamen Bankovski from Vitosha Venture Partners, Yordan A. Zarev from New Vision 3, #NV3 Fund, and Kristiyan Begazhev &#8211; Senior Analyst at Capital Investment Fund.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitching at Pitch2Pitch startup competition was not new to Umni. In July\u20192019 we participated in the 2nd season of this monthly startup competition by pitching Umni platform as an idea inspired by the city AI chatbot that our team have created for the visitors of Plovdiv as a European Capital of Culture \u2013 Plovdiv City AI Concierge, and we won the 1st place for the month of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[66,67,57],"wf_post_folders":[261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19316,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions\/19316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19313"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umni.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=19313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}