QTex AI takes the $50,000 Grand Prize at Boise Entrepreneur Week!

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Katie McInally, Design and Marketing
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April 7, 2025
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QTex AI Takes the $50,000 Grand Prize at Boise Entrepreneur Week!

We are absolutely thrilled to share that QTex AI has won the $50,000 Grand Prize at the Boise Entrepreneur Week (BEW) Main Pitch Competition!

The victory marks a pivotal moment for our team and validates our mission to radically transform engineering productivity.

CEO Chris Dagher shows PartWise in action at the 2025 BEW Main Pitch Competition

Revolutioning Component Sourcing and Selection

For those who missed the pitch, our technology is a conversational AI tool designed to solve one of the biggest bottlenecks in the electronics world: component sourcing and selection.

Think about every smartphone, medical device, and smart appliance - they all rely on thousands of tiny electronic components. Today, finding, comparing, and selecting those vital parts is a slow, manual process.

At QTex AI, we're changing all of that. Our copilot allows engineers to complete this critical workflow up to 90% faster, freeing them up to focus on innovation instead of the reading of tedious, endless, spreadsheets. Giving this time back to electronics engineers could not come at a better time. The demand for high tech is speeding up faster than ever, and companies cannot afford to be wasting time on legacy workflows.

"This victory confirms our vision. Our technology is set to fundamentally revolutionize engineering productivity and our team posesses the perfect combination of vision and expertise to lead that charge." — Chris Dagher, CEO of QTex AI

COO Oliver MacDonald connects with 2025 BEW Main Pitch Competition audience.

What's Next: Launching Version 2

At this stage, winning $50,000 in non-dilutive funds is transformative. It immediately fuels our next major initiative: the development and launch of Version 2 of our copilot!

This next iteration will not only enhance our core component searching capabilities but will also:

  • Expand our toolset to assist with an even wider portion of the product development cycle.
  • Introduce improved team collaboration features for engineering workflows, making component slection a shared, efficient process.

The energy and exposure from being recongnized at Idaho's largest celebration of entrepreneurship is something that will be sticking with us for a while. We are so grateful to the BEW organizers, the investors, and the judges for believing in the power of QTex AI.

Chris and Oliver, Co-Founders and best friends, share a moment together before taking the stage at the 2025 BEW Main Pitch Competition.
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