When Cureate beta-launches its Connect offering at the Made in Baltimore food fair on June 20, the online platform can call itself small-business friendly, food-focused and now award-winning.

Kym Bryden, the brains behind the site designed to connect small food entrepreneurs and larger institutions, won the Innovation Village Boot Camp pitch competition Tuesday night.

Cureate was up against nine other startups that spent the day at MICA perfecting their pitches and learning about conscious capitalism. Other pitches came from language-learning tool ClassTracks, drone startup Global Air Media and Sunniva Coffee, among others.

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