Coverage from NowKalamazoo, published 2026-04-10.
NowKalamazoo’s community calendar listed Cultivate 269: The $100,000 Pitch Night, an event presented by Kalamazoo Forward Ventures (KZFV) in partnership with Western Michigan University. The listing placed the event at the WMU Student Center in Kalamazoo on Friday, April 10, from 5 to 7 p.m. According to the entry, nine WMU students would compete with $100,000 at stake, and the evening would include music and food alongside the pitches.
The listing invited attendees to RSVP and pointed to an Eventbrite registration page for tickets. The event was filed under the calendar’s Awards/Recognitions, Business, Networking and Resource Distribution categories. The page is a calendar entry rather than a news report, and it contains no reporting on the competition’s applicants, finalists, judging process or outcome, and no named individuals beyond the sponsoring organizations.
