{"id":24914,"date":"2023-04-14T23:06:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T03:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=24914"},"modified":"2023-04-17T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:30:45","slug":"spencer-tate-and-co-founder-win-paladin-pitch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/spencer-tate-and-co-founder-win-paladin-pitch-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Tate and co-founder win Paladin Pitch Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four Furman University finalists in the 4th Annual Paladin Pitch Competition squared off &#8220;Shark Tank&#8221; style on Thursday for $10,000 in prize money. Ahead of the competition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2023\/04\/14\/furman-hosts-paladin-pitch-universitys-entrepreneurs\/\">FOX Carolina<\/a>&#8216;s Zach Prelutsky spoke to Bryan Davis, executive director of The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Prelutsky also spoke to last year&#8217;s winner, Alexa Valdovinos &#8217;25, and this year&#8217;s winning team, Furman&#8217;s Spencer Tate &#8217;24 and Nemath Ahmed of Georgia Tech, co-founders of dotflo, a data analytics platform. The two won the inaugural Johnny Flynn Paladin Pitch Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX Carolina&#8217;s Zach Prelutsky covers the 4th Annual Paladin Pitch Competition. Dotflo, a data analytics platform created by Furman&#8217;s Spencer Tate and Nemath Ahmed of Georgia Tech, took first place and $10K in prize money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":24917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,20,17,33,101,37,46,1569,21,6,81,39,35,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-business-and-accounting","category-centers-and-institutes","category-computer-science","category-data-analytics","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-economics","category-fox-carolina","category-health-sciences","category-in-the-news","category-innovation-and-entrepreneurship","category-music","category-parent-news","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}