These 10 #dctech startups will pitch for TechCrunch

TechCrunch, you may recall, is coming to D.C.

The tech news site is hosting a “meetup + pitch-off” event on Feb. 21 at Echostage in Ivy City. It’ll be, as TechCrunch Events Director Emma Comeau told Technical.ly, an opportunity for the company to get a sense for the “tremendous growth” that’s occurred in the D.C. startup scene over the past few years.

In service of this, TechCrunch invited #dctech startups to apply to pitch a panel of VCs and TechCrunch editors. On Monday they announced who will get to take the stage.

Here’s the lineup:

• Aspire
• Dūcō
• Hydroviv
• IoT Defense Inc.
• KapitalWise
• MapHubs
• REQWIN
• ScholarVets LLC
• SimpeVisit
• Steel Mountain Systems Corp.

The challenge now, for all these companies, is to figure out how best to sell themselves and their product in just 60 seconds.

Want to be there to see it all go down? We’re raffling off 10 free tickets! Enter the raffle by signing up for our daily #dctech newsletter (where you’ll read heartwarming stories and reassuring stories and stories that hook you up with cool opportunities like this one!). Just enter “TechCrunch” in the code field.