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title: AI Tool That Aims for Viral Clips Takes Top Honors at Pitch Dingman
date: 2025-04-25T05:30:00-04:00
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# AI Tool That Aims for Viral Clips Takes Top Honors at Pitch Dingman

*April 25, 2025* — by [John Tucker](/author/john-tucker)


> Terps Awarded More Than $170K in Prizes at Annual Entrepreneurship Competition

*Pitch Dingman 04242025 SC 2217 1920x1080 — Takiyah Roberts ’25 makes her case to the judges at the 10th Pitch Dingman Competition. Her nonprofit, Dare to Dream, took the $15,000 prize in the event's Main Street Track.*

Aayush Gupta ’25 was getting annoyed when his roommate, a variety streamer, spent hours editing highlights from the various games he played online into social media content.

“I wanted to solve the problem because he was spending his weekend making clips instead of hanging out with us,” said Gupta, a computer science major with a background in machine learning research.

Gupta turned that idea into a business called [Saved](https://www.saved.gg/), and on Thursday inside a packed Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center, he accepted the top award of $25,000 at the University of Maryland’s 2025 [Pitch Dingman Competition](https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/centers-initiatives/dingman-center/initiatives-programs/pitch-dingman-competition). There, entrepreneurial students and alumni presented their ventures to judges “Shark Tank”-style in hopes of taking home a share of more than $170,000 in prizes, a record.

Gupta’s product uses artificial intelligence to cut livestreams into made-for-social-media clips, capturing key content in real time and packaging it for virality. He tested it on UMD’s esports team quickly causing its online video views to skyrocket, he said.

The venture helps creators earn sponsorships, said Gupta, who took the award in the competition’s David and Robyn Quattrone Tech Track, open to students who founded scalable, tech or tech-enabled ventures that already have traction through metrics like revenue, users, investments and grants.

The Dingman competition, in its 10th year, is hosted by the Dingman-Lamone Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. This year’s winners, selected from a pool of 97 applications and competing in five tracks, will receive venture-development resources and professional coaching in addition to prize money.

“This event is the culmination of everything we do,” said Mike Hoffmeyer, managing director of the center. “We call this the fearless future of entrepreneurship. The participants are the best of the best, and it’s an amazing show.”

Thursday’s event also celebrated the late Rudolph P. “Rudy” Lamone, former Smith School dean, pioneer of entrepreneurship and founder of the Dingman-Lamone Center, whose name was added to the title in January [following a $3.8 million gift](https://today.umd.edu/3-8m-gift-honors-longtime-business-school-dean-rudy-lamone) from his widow, Linda Lamone.

“He was a man whose vision and dedication helped make Maryland a more innovative and entrepreneurial state,” Maryland Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary Ricardo Benn ’83 remarked to the crowd.



*Winners of a pitch competition stand next to each other on stage — David Shukhin ’27 (green and white shirt), of Tailored, and Aayush Gupta ’25 (white shirt), of Saved congratulate each other after Gupta's company won the David and Robyn Quattrone Tech Track.*



*big group pictureon the stage after the competion — Pitch Dingman's judges and some of the winners pose for a group picture after the competition.*



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**Topics:** [Campus & Community](https://today.umd.edu/tags/campus-community)


**Tags:** [Academic Competitions](https://today.umd.edu/topic/academic-competitions), [Student Experience](https://today.umd.edu/topic/student-experience)


**Units:** [Robert H. Smith School of Business](https://today.umd.edu/topic/robert-h-smith-school-business)