#23 Pitching to Investors and Developing Biotechnology in High School
16-year-old Neil Mitra is on a mission to help millions of visually impaired people with his biotech start-up, EyeCane.\xa0
Largely developed in his home over the past few years, Neil has taken EyeCane to the Canada Wide Science Fair in 2017 where he won a silver medal and he has also won the Ted Rogers Innovation Award in 2019 again for EyeCane.
More recently, he was a finalist in the prestigious MIT LaunchX which gave him valuable experience and an even more valuable network. Since then, he has secured seed funding and continues to work on the start-up with a team of talented students from around Canada.\xa0
Neil gives advice to aspiring entrepreneurs and inventors including the emails to send, calls to make and books to read to successfully pitch to investors.
- Neil welcomes listeners to connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter.
- Click here to visit Neil's next venture, Mitra Biotechnologies
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