Heartland 2023

Anna Mason and Earnest Sweat will sit for "fireside chats" with local founders as part of the keynote ceremonies at the 2023 Heartland Challenge. A venture ...

[ Carter Malloy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carter-malloy/), founder and CEO at [ AcreTrader](https://acretrader.com/). She earned her law degree at the U of A in 1939. The final round of the competition and the Startup Expo are live events that are open to the public. [Earnest Sweat](https://www.linkedin.com/in/earnestsweat/), who grew up in Little Rock and focuses on investing in founders accelerating the world's largest industries, will be the keynote speaker for the awards banquet on April 15 at [ the Ledger](https://ledgerbentonville.com/). A unit of the Sam M. Mason is currently the managing partner for [ Ingeborg Investments](https://www.ingeborginvestments.com/), a venture fund and platform founded by Olivia Walton that focuses on investing in women. The winner will receive $5,000. [Women's Giving Circle Grant Empowers ART/Works! First and second place winners in the elevator pitch competition — decided by an audience vote — win $3,000 and $2,000, respectively. She helped grow the initiative from a startup-community bus tour into a fund with $300 million in assets-under-management and early-stage investments in more than 75 cities across the United States. The overall winner will collect $50,000. [ Sam M.