Episodes
Is your AI hallucinating? This AI can fix it. This is Chinar Movsisyan's pitch for Feedback Intelligence. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell and Jesse Middleton. ... Watch Chinar pitch her AI startup on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party To invest with us, become an LP in thepitch.fund *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in Feedback Intelligence is being made to or solicited from the...
Published 11/13/24
Published 11/13/24
Gwyneth Borden has a vendetta. This is The Pitch for Remynt. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Mac Conwell, Ben Taft and Elizabeth Yin. ... Watch Gwyneth pitch her debt recovery startup on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party Applications for our winter pitch event will close in one week, apply now at pitch.show/apply To invest with us, become an LP in thepitch.fund *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in Remynt is being made...
Published 11/06/24
Could robots bring healthcare access to rural America? This is Ryan James' pitch for Dopl. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Josh Muccio and Jesse Middleton. ... Watch Ryan pitch his healthtech startup on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party Applications are closing soon for our winter cohort, founders raising pre-seed or seed can apply to pitch at pitch.show/apply To invest with us, become an LP in...
Published 10/30/24
Can a college advisor disrupt the system from the inside? This is Julia Dixon's pitch for ESAI. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell and Jesse Middleton. ... Watch Julia pitch her edtech startup on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party Applications are closing soon for our winter cohort, founders raising pre-seed or seed can apply to pitch at pitch.show/apply To invest with us, become...
Published 10/23/24
Award winning event planner makes the pivot to tech. This is Virginia Frischkorn's pitch for Partytrick. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Mac Conwell, Ben Taft and Elizabeth Yin. ... Watch Virginia pitch her startup on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party Applications are now open for next season, founders raising pre-seed or seed can apply to pitch at pitch.show/apply To invest with us, become an LP in...
Published 10/16/24
Two of Josh's favorite hobbies—beer and startups—collide in The Pitch Room. This is Dean Eberhardt's pitch for ReCraft. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell and Jesse Middleton. ... Watch Dean pitch his beer technology startup on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party Applications are now open for next season, founders raising pre-seed or seed can apply to pitch at pitch.show/apply To...
Published 10/09/24
Chad Wilson wants to disrupt history class with video games. This is The Pitch for immersionED. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell and Jesse Middleton. ... Watch Chad pitch his edtech startup on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party Applications are now open for next season, founders raising pre-seed or seed can apply to pitch at pitch.show/apply To invest with us, become an LP in...
Published 09/25/24
What happens when disaster strikes and the internet goes down? This is Jorge Rios' pitch for Bridgefy. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Josh Muccio, and Jesse Middleton. ... Watch Jorge pitch his peer-to-peer networking tech on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party Applications are now open for next season, founders raising pre-seed or seed can apply to pitch at pitch.show/apply To invest with us, become an...
Published 09/18/24
What if you could take someone’s vitals, using just the sound of their voice? This is the pitch for Vital Audio. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Mac Conwell, Jesse Middleton and Lee Jacobs. ... Watch Nyamitse-Calvin Mahinda pitch his healthtech startup on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party To invest with us, become an LP in thepitch.fund *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in Vital Audio Inc. is being made...
Published 09/11/24
One million patients fall in hospitals each year, and it costs US hospitals over $35 billion. What if they could all be prevented? This is the pitch for Kinometrix. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Mac Conwell, Ben Taft and Elizabeth Yin. ... Watch Devina Desai pitch her hospital fall prevention software on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party To invest with us, become an LP in thepitch.fund *Disclaimer: No offer to...
Published 09/04/24
What happens when a Michelin-trained palate makes junk food with no junk? This is The Pitch for Christie’s Chips. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Mac Conwell, Ben Taft and Elizabeth Yin. ... Watch Christie Buck pitch her potato chip startup on YouTube @thepitchshow Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party To invest with us, become an LP in thepitch.fund *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in Christie's Chips is being made to or solicited from the...
Published 08/28/24
Biomimicry (noun): the design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes. Founder Capella Kerst invented a material that mimics a geckos' gravity defying grip. This industrial velcro could be a multi-billion dollar industry, and geCKo Materials is shooting for the moon. I mean, they’re already on the International Space Station... how hard can it be? Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Mac Conwell and Jesse...
Published 08/21/24
Phil Barrar sold his last company for $65 million. Now he’s back in the game with FutureMoney, an investing platform that helps parents create generational wealth for their kids with the Junior Roth IRA™. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell and Jesse Middleton. ... Watch the FutureMoney pitch on YouTube @thepitchshow To invest with us, become an LP in thepitch.fund *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in Future Money Inc. is being made to or solicited from...
Published 08/14/24
A new season is here! Fourteen pitches start August 14th with one crazy season finale to tie it all together. These startups will blow your mind, and if you’re an investor on the show… your wallet. BONUS: Stick around at the end of the trailer for a special behind the scenes interview with Charles Hudson, Cyan Banister, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell and Jesse Middleton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 07/31/24
Alexa Von Tobel started thinking about money after her dad died when she was young. By the time she got her first job out of college, she was horrified to learn that there weren’t any financial resources online. So she built LearnVest – one of the first companies to help young people manage their money online – and sold it to Northwestern Mutual for $375 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Published 07/24/24
As a glacier guide in Alaska, Georgia Grace Edwards had a problem: her pants. While the male guides just unzipped and did their business, she had to find a secluded place and completely undress in the freezing tundra. So Georgia Grace created the GoFly zipper technology to help everyone go on the go. Will the investors get behind this consumer product or is this business just too messy? Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell and Paige Finn...
Published 07/10/24
Lending is one of the oldest markets in recorded history. But founder Luis Sánchez believes there’s an opportunity that remains untapped… manufacturing companies in Mexico. Can Luis mint a Mexican unicorn? Or will the investors decide that this market is just too niche? Featuring investors Elizabeth Yin, Charles Hudson, Beck Bamberger, Pascal Unger and Mac Conwell. ... Watch the KredFeed pitch on YouTube @thepitchshow To invest with the VCs on the show, join our investor community at...
Published 06/26/24
Twin sisters Nilo and Jennifer Rahmani used to be site reliability engineers. Where they worked night and day to keep servers running at companies like Slack. But Nilo and Jen left their cushy jobs in tech to build Thoras AI, a platform that helps startups scale and optimize their cloud infrastructure using AI. Will the investors get down on site reliability, or will this “family business” scare them away? Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin and Paige Finn...
Published 06/12/24
When women started curling their hair with bathrobes, Emily Kenison didn't see a silly TikTok trend. She saw the creation of a new market – heatless hair care. This lawyer-turned-inventor decided to capitalize on the craze by designing her own patented line of heatless curling headbands. Will the investors see a big vision in big curls, or is this just another one of those 'lifestyle' businesses investors love to hate? Featuring investors Jillian Manus, Beck Bamberger and Mac...
Published 05/29/24
We thought it would take years before AI could replace a podcast host. That is, until founder Edward Brawer slid into Josh’s DMs to pitch his startup, PodcastAI. Edward thinks he can make podcast producers 10x more productive and he already signed two big name podcasters. Now can he convince the big name investors that PodcastAI will deliver 100x returns? Featuring investors Elizabeth Yin, Charles Hudson, Beck Bamberger, Pascal Unger and Mac Conwell. ... Watch the Podcast AI pitch on YouTube...
Published 05/15/24
Since the beginning of The Pitch, we’ve told one story: what it’s like to raise money for a startup. But what about the rest of the journey? On our new segment, The Exit, we talk to startup founders who’ve done the impossible, sold their startup for hundreds of millions. How does it feel to finally accomplish the dream? And is that dream all it’s cracked up to be? In our first exit interview, we talk to Bill Smith, a high school dropout from Alabama who started, scaled and sold Shipt for...
Published 05/08/24
What if your favorite online store had models that look like you: your skin tone, your height, your body shape? That question propelled Vita Mallela to start Flock AI. Their AI generated models could help brands eliminate pricey photoshoots. But with AI startups so en vogue, how will the investors know if this AI startup is the one to walk the runway with? Featuring investors Elizabeth Yin, Charles Hudson, Beck Bamberger, Pascal Unger and Mac Conwell. ... Watch the Flock AI pitch on YouTube...
Published 05/01/24
After spending a decade as a franchise broker, Kenny Rose decided to break out on his own and start FranShares. An alternative investment platform where anyone can invest in franchises. Now you can own a piece of your local fast food joint, a medspa, even a car wash! But will the investors be able to see big tech returns for a company that sounds like small fries? Featuring investors Jillian Manus, Beck Bamberger and Mac Conwell. ... Watch the FranShares pitch on YouTube @thepitchshow To...
Published 04/24/24
Monica Williams wants to revolutionize the period experience for tweens. With $5 million in sales in just two years, she’s on her way. Now she wants to raise venture to scale her bootstrapped company. Will Monica get to pitch the big vision for RedDrop or will investors write her off from the start? Featuring investors Elizabeth Yin, Charles Hudson, Beck Bamberger, Pascal Unger and Mac Conwell. ... Watch the RedDrop pitch on YouTube @thepitchshow To invest with the VCs on the show, join our...
Published 04/17/24