New Milwaukee CBD bakery wins Project Pitch It $10,000 prize

A brand new sort of bakery received over the moguls throughout this week’s episode of Challenge Pitch It. Amanda Buhrman, founding father of Milwaukee-based firm Sweetly Baked, received the $10,000 Challenge Pitch It Award.

Sweetly Baked is Milwaukee’s first industrial CBD Bakery, specializing in handcrafted, small-batch confections. Within the first month after she opened, Buhrman bought over 1,000 particular person gadgets.

In 2020, Buhrman was working within the tourism trade and located herself changing into anxious when desirous about the potential results of the COVID-19 pandemic. She immersed herself into baking to handle that anxiousness and ended up leaving her job in June of 2021 to launch her enterprise. The thought to include CBD into her merchandise got here from private expertise. Buhrman has used CBD to assist handle her anxiousness.

“With regards to edibles, typically occasions you possibly can solely discover gummies or mass produced, white label gadgets. Not often can you discover a variety of customized and scrumptious treats,” Buhrman stated.

Sweetly Baked doesn’t at the moment have a brick-and-mortar storefront the place merchandise are bought. Prospects can place orders on-line or schedule a time to choose their merchandise up instantly from the corporate’s industrial kitchen. Buhrman plans to make use of the cash she received to rent extra employees so her firm can develop extra shortly. She additionally hopes to launch subscription containers and begin attending farmers markets.

Entrepreneur Marlowe Franklin and his firm Authorized Stream Interplay (LSI) earned the Jendusa/UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Award. This consists of entry to workshops, programming and assist companies together with funding steering and mentoring from UW-Milwaukee’s Lubar Entrepreneurship Heart, plus $5,000.

Franklin got here up with the concept for his app after witnessing how the pandemic led individuals to have “shorter fuses.”  He referenced a Pennsylvania dispute between two neighbors and snowblowing companies that led to a few individuals being killed.

“Throughout that argument, if they’d stated one thing like ‘I’ll simply contact my legal professional,’ that in all probability would have subtle the scenario,” Franklin stated. “However everyone knows all people doesn’t have an legal professional on standby.”

That’s the service LSI can present to its customers. LSI streams conditions on to your legal professional and the legal professional is ready to interject throughout the livestream. Franklin stated proper now, he wants steering to determine methods to transfer the platform ahead. He’s additionally to start with levels of looking for a patent for his product.

Appleton resident Andrew Schmitz and his firm Micronet took dwelling the American Household/We Energies Award which incorporates $1,500 in money and mentoring from a We Energies chief to assist all facets of the enterprise, together with advertising and marketing, IT, human sources, and finance.

Micronet helps organizations with member retention and engagement by serving to them construct a greater sense of belonging amongst workers. That is all completed through e-mail introductions which can be despatched out by way of the platform. These introductions assist join people who find themselves involved in networking. Individuals inside the similar firm could be related to assist construct engagement amongst workers. Micronet customers may also join with individuals from outdoors firms and organizations.

Schmitz got here up with the concept for the software program as soon as he got here throughout his personal difficulties in balancing his work duties and nonetheless discovering time to community.

“I used to be venting to a good friend in the future and I stated, ‘I actually want I may simply have a protracted checklist of all of the businesspeople within the space that had been prepared to seize a espresso.’ That was a lightbulb second for me,” Schmitz stated.

At six months outdated, the platform is being utilized in over 10 communities and has helped facilitate over 4,000 introductions. Schmitz is hoping to attach with extra firms and organizations that may use Micronet.

Challenge Pitch It airs Saturdays at 10:35 p.m. and Sundays at 11:30 a.m. in Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin on WISN-TV Channel 12. BizTimes Milwaukee is a media accomplice for Challenge Pitch It.