Test Flight Pitch Practice

Description

What is Test Flight?

Test Flight is a startup community-building event designed to help founders raise the bar on their pitches. We host it on the first Tuesday of each month to give early-stage startups a supportive space to practice pitching, receive feedback, and refine their story before approaching investors, customers, or partners.

Come support these founders, ask questions during Q&A, and help accelerate their path to market!

This month's presenters include:

Solvata (9:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT)

Solvata is a voice-first tool for scouting and field recordkeeping that saves agricultural field teams hundreds of hours by eliminating manual data entry. The platform captures observations hands-free on the go, instantly parsing and structuring the data to transform messy field notes into a reliable, searchable intelligence of operational history.

Presenter Bio: Guilherme Tejada, Co-founder and CEO. Guilherme is an AgTech entrepreneur with 15 years of professional experience spanning market research, intelligence, strategy, and process improvement. For the past decade, he has designed and led qualitative and quantitative studies for agriculture, machinery, and animal health companies—conducting dozens of firsthand interviews with farmers in the field. As CEO, Guilherme leverages his data-driven perspective and deep market expertise to drive Solvata’s product roadmap and growth strategy. He holds an MBA in Agribusiness, a B.A. in Marketing, a Six Sigma Green Belt, and is trilingual.

Skitii (10:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT)

Skitii is a health-tech company developing innovative, AI-powered, drug-free solutions to improve patient well-being during cancer treatment. Its flagship product, Kitii, is an intelligent medical device that reduces anxiety and emotional distress in cancer patients. By continuously monitoring physiological and behavioral stress indicators (including heart rate variability and computer vision analysis), the platform generates personalized, adaptive instrumental music in real time to promote relaxation. Kitii has PCT patents filed and is currently undergoing CDSCO Class B medical device approval and evaluation by the U.S. FDA Breakthrough Devices Program.

Presenter Bio: Dr. Chirag Bhirud, Co-Founder & Surgical Oncologist. Dr. Chirag Bhirud is a surgical oncologist and cancer specialist with over 10 years of experience in advanced cancer care. He earned his MBBS from Nair Hospital (Mumbai), an MS in General Surgery from BJ Medical College (Pune), an MCh in Surgical Oncology from GCRI (Ahmedabad), and completed a Fellowship in Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgical Oncology at Fortis Hospital (Bengaluru). Dr. Bhirud focuses on advanced, minimally invasive, and robotic cancer surgeries and is deeply committed to delivering patient-centered, cutting-edge innovation to improve clinical outcomes in oncology care.