The Toy Coach teams up with TinkerTini to provide pitching opportunities to Toy Creators Academy graduates

The Toy Coach has partnered with TinkerTini to provide its Toy Creators Academy graduates with opportunities to pitch their ideas directly to major toy companies.

Graduates will be able to utilize TinkerTini’s Tinkerly Innovation Platform to access wishlists and pitch concepts to a variety of top toy firms.

“Having a trusted and proven path for my students to connect and pitch directly to toy companies was a critical missing piece to Toy Creators Academy,” said Azhelle Wade of The Toy Coach.

“Fast pass access to TinkerTini and their Tinkerly Innovation Platform is the perfect endpiece to my program, offering the support and guidance that’s so critical to help my new inventors license their ideas.”

Trina McFarland, Owner and General Manager of TinkerTini, added: “TinkerTini is committed to cultivating the most diverse, quality, and smartly educated inventing network in the world to deliver fresh ideas and the very best for our clients, always.

“The Toy Creators Academy is truly beneficial to new inventors, and our industry as a whole. We need to keep investing in the future of inventing and The Toy Coach is doing just that! This is exactly why we built Tinkerly: to be the engine and solution that brings critical pieces, people and programs together! TinkerTini can’t wait to step-in and help Toy Creators Academy graduates take their concepts to the finish line.”

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