NEW YORK - New York based startup Lab141, pitched by Andrea Madho, is announced winner of Present Your Startup New York. The event took place on Monday April 8 at the headquarters of partner Silicon Harlem, the partner organization for Present Your Startup New York. Winner Lab141 stood out because of its innovative solution for a process for consumers to purchase new designer women’s clothing in a made-to-fit format. The startup manufactures clothes in 48 hours for premium direct-to-consumer fashion brands with robotics, analytics and logistics so brands can sell to any body shape with no inventory commitment.
“Lab141 has set a new standard for the yearly competition.” Said Mike Rijkers, director of the Netherlands of Innovate Today, the party that created the Present Your Startup foundation. “This prize is a testament of skill, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.”
Among the pitching startups were last year’s winner of Present Your Startup Lolo’s Bites, winner of Present Your Startup Caribbean Le Grand Voyages and New York based startups See Thru, Skinno, Wino and Gutandflip.
About Present Your Startup
Present Your Startup is a yearly accelerator and startup competition that connects startups to investors and experts in New York, the Netherlands and the Caribbean. Shortlisted startups follow a program of multiple training days, which is followed by a pitch competition. Throughout the whole program, the participants get to know investors, other businesses and potential customers of the Present Your Startup network.
On a yearly base, Present Your Startup takes place in New York. The New York version is however a shorter version of the Dutch and Caribbean version and consists of only a pitch competition between three New York based startups and three startups that are based in the Netherlands.