2018 Indianapolis Pitch Competition Review

The five companies selected to compete on the Pacers court for the pitch competition are fighting some of the most daunting statistics in America:

• 31% of nation’s homeless population is age 50 or older

• African American home ownership is 41.7% (50 year low)

• In one of the world’s highest food producing states, 15% of Indiana’s population is food insecure (urban and rural)

• 64,070 Americans died of addiction overdose last year – 21% increase

• US has 4% of world’s population but 22% of its prisoners – 4 in 10 return to prison