Date/Time
5/28/2025 - 6/13/2025
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM MST
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM MST
Event Registration
Event Type(s)
GBMA Events
Member Hosted Community Events
Civic Events
Community Event
Member Hosted Community Events
Civic Events
Community Event
Event Description
A Shark Tank Style Pitch Event for Rural Arizona! Serving Casa Grande, AZ and the City of Maricopa, AZ.
Do you have a "moonshot" business idea or an existing business you'd like to expand? Or maybe you have a product or business idea scribbled down on a napkin or notebook, but that's as far as you've gotten?
If you answered YES to either question above, join us for Moonshot's 6th Annual Rural Arizona Pitch Competition for entrepreneurs and business owners (aka, a showcase like you see on ABC's Shark Tank)!
"The Moonshot Rural AZ Pitch Competition 2025, is an inspiring event that empowers entrepreneurs and encourages job growth and economic development. Through this event, our team is able to connect with the businesses and entrepreneurs that can use our support and resources. We have connected with so many viable established companies that we may never have met without the pitch competition as a vehicle to making these important connections."
Become A Dream Maker!
By Becoming a local sponsor of your town/city tour stop competition, you’ll show your support for the risk taking entrepreneurs in your community and the organizations that support them.
From March through September 2025, the 6th Annual Moonshot Rural AZ business pitch competition is heading to 20 stops throughout rural Arizona!
Your financial contribution will help fund:
Do you have a "moonshot" business idea or an existing business you'd like to expand? Or maybe you have a product or business idea scribbled down on a napkin or notebook, but that's as far as you've gotten?
If you answered YES to either question above, join us for Moonshot's 6th Annual Rural Arizona Pitch Competition for entrepreneurs and business owners (aka, a showcase like you see on ABC's Shark Tank)!
"The Moonshot Rural AZ Pitch Competition 2025, is an inspiring event that empowers entrepreneurs and encourages job growth and economic development. Through this event, our team is able to connect with the businesses and entrepreneurs that can use our support and resources. We have connected with so many viable established companies that we may never have met without the pitch competition as a vehicle to making these important connections."
Become A Dream Maker!
By Becoming a local sponsor of your town/city tour stop competition, you’ll show your support for the risk taking entrepreneurs in your community and the organizations that support them.
From March through September 2025, the 6th Annual Moonshot Rural AZ business pitch competition is heading to 20 stops throughout rural Arizona!
Your financial contribution will help fund:
- Prize money for winners
- Food and beverages for participants
- All local event print materials and ads for the event
- The event itself (shout out by Host City partners & Moonshot)
- Moonshot’s tour stop webpage (moonshotazpitch.com)
- Event materials for the Statewide Pitch Competition Finals event held in Prescott, AZ in October 2025.
Flyer
Location
Setting: In-Person
Butterfield Elementary School
43800 Honeycutt Rd
Maricopa, Ar 85139
UNITED STATES
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Butterfield Elementary School
43800 Honeycutt Rd
Maricopa, Ar 85139
UNITED STATES
Click here for Google Maps
Contact Person
Leslie McCloskey
(phone: 786-395-5069)
(phone: 786-395-5069)
Details
6/21/2025 is the Date of the Competition
8:30 AM - Voluntary Workshop - Fill out pitch worksheet
9:00 AM: 1st Pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on financial's and business model
10:30 or 11:00 AM: 2nd pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on legal and branding/marketing
12:00 or 12:30 PM: Working lunch, pitch deck cleanup
1:30 or 2:00 PM: Start Pitch Competition
3:00 or 3:30 PM: Announce Winners
8:30 AM - Voluntary Workshop - Fill out pitch worksheet
9:00 AM: 1st Pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on financial's and business model
10:30 or 11:00 AM: 2nd pitch Practice Workshop, emphasis on legal and branding/marketing
12:00 or 12:30 PM: Working lunch, pitch deck cleanup
1:30 or 2:00 PM: Start Pitch Competition
3:00 or 3:30 PM: Announce Winners
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