The Pitch Perfect Podcast

The race to fund the best AI startups continues for VC firms across the world. We sat down with a founder and a funder who found each other years ago and crossed the funding finish line before most investors even realized the race had begun. Lukas Biewald, CEO and cofounder of Weights and Biases, and George Mathew, managing director at Insight Partners, join The Pitch Perfect Podcast for a discussion about the practical uses of AI ...

Weaviate is the AI-native database for a new generation of software. Its open source vector database empowers every developer to build AI-native applications with less hallucination, data leakage, and vendor lock-in. Cofounder Bob Van Luijt joins the Pitch Perfect Podcast to share how building the Weaviate team based on kindness has been the startup’s superpower. Learn more at https://weaviate.io/.

Danel Dayan, principal at Batter...

With advances in LLMs it’s finally possible to automate data analysis in ways that actually work. This will radically transform how security teams operate--Prophet Security was started to make that happen. Co-founded by Kamal Shah, Prophet Security investigates alerts and responds to threats with unparalleled speed and precision while empowering your analysts and safeguarding your data. Learn more at https://www.prophetsecurity.ai/...

Founded in 2014, Fountain started with a vision to transform the hiring of hourly workers. The majority of the global workforce is composed of hourly workers, but most applicant tracking systems aren’t built for this type of worker. Hiring salaried, knowledge workers is fundamentally different from hiring hourly workers, which is why Fountain is designed to enable recruiters to efficiently hire hourly workers, from application to s...

A candid conversation with Sean Whiteley and Scott Beechuk about the founder/funder relationship and what to do when the roles are reversed and a venture capitalist is the one pitching YOU.

Qualified.com is a platform that facilitates instant sales conversations - one click to chat, voice, and video - to unlock an entirely new pipeline generation channel. Founder and president Sean Whiteley runs the Solutions Engineering team ...

Mytra automates the most common task in industry: moving and storing material. Founded by Chris Walti, the robotics startup created an AI-powered bot that enables you to move inventory in any direction from any cell in the system, up and down, automatically. Learn more at https://mytra.ai/.

Seth Winterroth, partner at Eclipse, is a firm believer that the opportunity for entrepreneurs to build differentiated companies that will...

Rainmaker exists to solve the water scarcity problem. Founded by Augustus Doricko, the cloud seeding startup uses drones to provide water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world. Learn more at https://www.makerain.com/.

Greg Bernstein, general partner at Acequia Capital, is an investor in Rainmaker. He is a former investor of EQT Ventures and commanding officer of the U.S. Coas...