2025 Pitch Showcase

Join our Investor Pitch Showcase for a chance to hear pitches from leading film and entertainment companies. Learn from their investor pitch styles and gain insights from expert panelists, including professional investors and respected business leaders.

This year features “MyStreme”, “He Named Him Adam”, and “Gravity Jack”—three innovative, purpose-driven companies. Whether you’re pursuing funding, refining your pitch, or seeking investor perspectives, this session offers valuable insights and practical takeaways.

ICVM Presents

Investor Pitch Companies & Judges

June 27th, 2025 from 9:30am – 6:00pm EST

2025 Pitch Showcase Companies

Pitch Company: MyStreme
Dan Cobb (CEO), Paul Lauer (President)

MyStreme will be the world’s first fan-funded, fan-created streaming TV service, and it’s powered by Artificial Intelligence.

Dan is a 23 time Emmy Award-winning media executive, innovator and multi-patent holder of AI TV. As founder of national media companies, DBA Worldwide and AdBox.io, Dan brings 30 years of marketing tech experience, managing $500M in ad spend with world-class brands: Chick-fil-A, Disney, Warner Bros., Sony, ABC, NBC, CBS, Papa Johns and PizzaAndAMovie.com with Paramount, introducing social media for for Disney’s Tangled, Warner Bros., The Hobbit, Board Member at Missions.Me, Rescue International and Love Has No Limits.

Paul is a 20-year movie development and marketing executive, founder of Hollywood agency Motive Entertainment. The 50 films Paul has worked on have grossed over $4.2 billion in box office, including Chronicles of Narnia, Polar Express, Rocky Balboa, Heaven is for Real, The Shack, Just Mercy, and Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, for which Ad Age gave Paul a “Top 50 Marketer of the Year” award – in recognition of 50 million viewers via influencer marketing. Launching #1 TV shows, social media apps: Pray and Lomotif with 225M downloads.

Pitch Company: Gravity Jack
Luke & Jennifer Richer, Co-founders

Gravity Jack is an American full-service digital agency with an unyielding pursuit to create a world where technology and the human experience intersect seamlessly through augmented reality.

Jennifer has spent over 20 years in tech, co-founding and scaling startups. She was CFO of Tometa Software through its 2007 acquisition. In 2009, she co-founded Gravity Jack, one of the first AR companies. For Jennifer, Gravity Jack and WarTribe are tools to bring light into dark places and show the world what redemption truly looks like.

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Luke began coding at 14, worked with NASA, and built several successful startups, including OpenEye, later acquired by Alarm.com. In 2009, he and his wife Jen founded Gravity Jack, one of the first mobile AR companies, helping create games like Pokémon GO and Double Down Casino, which generated billions for clients. Luke sees Gravity Jack and their game WarTribe as a sheep in wolves’ clothing—built to reach the lost through gaming.

Pitch Company: "He Named Him Adam" by Crunch Entertainment
Marc Aramian & Veronica DiPippo

Crunch Entertainment is an award-winning, independent film production company. Their goal is to bring powerful, highly entertaining, kingdom-oriented stories to life that positively impact the culture, and shine a spotlight on God’s grace, mercy and forgiveness.

Writer/Director, Veronica DiPippo, began her career as an actor, working in regional, touring, and off-Broadway theaters before turning to writing and directing.  After several years of writing and directing theater on both coasts, she shifted her focus to film.

She worked in production offices, analyzed scripts for top companies, and worked nearly every crew position imaginable in independent films. In 2004, Veronica and husband Marc Aramian launched their own production company, Crunch Entertainment. While developing projects, she worked as a screenwriter for Disney Feature Animation, Disney Toons, Fours Moons, and Latitude Entertainment.

Veronica has won multiple filmmaker awards and numerous nominations. Highlights include the Audience Award at Palm Springs International ShortFest, and Best Director at San Francisco Women’s International. In 2015, Veronica and Marc moved to the South and began providing film production services for under-represented voices in our culture including multiple pro-life organizations.

Producer and composer, Marc Aramian, is a serial entrepreneur with a long history in management. He has helped start successful businesses in Saudi Arabia, Manila, London, and Los Angeles. He’s also an award-winning indie film producer and a political refugee from Hollywood. Credits include multiple award-winning short films and a feature-length docu-drama. Prior to making the jump to film producing, Marc worked as a prolific, international film composer, who has composed hundreds of scores for film, TV, records, and commercials.

2025 Pitch Showcase Judges

Jim Schubert
VP Content Licensing for Great American Media

Jim has 30 years of marketing, branding and licensing experience. Since joining Pure Flix Entertainment in 2012, Jim led the team in licensing Pure Flix films for outreach ministry initiatives and served on the investor relations team for “God’s Not Dead” and “Do You Believe.” 

Jim served on the start-up team that launched the leading Faith and Family Content streaming platform, PureFlix.com in 2015 and continues to serve as VP Content Licensing for Great American Media and PureFlix.com. 

Dana Wichterman
Senior Advisor at Impact Foundation

Dana Wichterman is Senior Advisor at Impact Foundation. She has been an active impact investor for over 8 years through Impact Foundation and Keystone Investing. She serves on several boards including Noble Story Co, a startup media company telling “noble stories in a noble way.”  Dana and her husband Bill were founding patrons of Wedgwood Circle, an angel investment community of entertainers, artists and patrons. She co-founded the Washington DC chapter of Faith Driven Entrepreneurs and Investors with 50 active members. Along with her husband Bill, she co-authored “Stewards, Not Owners: The Joy of Aligning Your Money with Your Faith”, encouraging Christians to see their money and resources to be managed wisely for His purposes. 

Ed Pearce
Chairman of The Lion's Den DFW

Ed has a long history of supporting entrepreneurial businesses in the city of Dallas as a corporate executive for two separate publicly traded computer software companies, as a partner in a Dallas based venture capital firm, and as an owner of a company providing information management solutions to Energy companies and companies in other vertical markets.  He is active as a member of the executive team for Movement Day Greater Dallas, a city transformation ministry, and teaches a young married small group at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas. 

Craig Fryar is an AI, ops and data specialist. He translates founder’s vision into strategic action. As a Venture Partner, crowdfunding portal COO and Angel, he has reviewed and advised over 3,000 Startups in tech, data, gaming, XR, AI, and biotech. He started as Technology Evangelist at Apple where he launched the consumer and gaming markets. He currently serves as CEO of ATSVR.com, provider of advanced XR simulation training for EMTs and First Responders (We Train Heros™). He’s been pursuing a vision Jesus gave him 40 years ago, combining marketplace and ministry excellence for kingdom advance!”

Craig Fryar
CEO, ATSVR.com

Craig Fryar
Ben Edwards is the Chief Servant of GoodWorks – an Equity CrowdFunding Platform for filmmakers. Ben’s background is a Builder with $500M+ completed projects. Ben is a servant leader, problem solver, and visionary. Solving the broken system for filmmakers is a current driving force.”

Ben Edwards
CEO, GoodWorks

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