The Pitch
Where startup founders raise millions and listeners can invest. Forget everything you think you know about the world of venture capital. Host Josh Muccio takes listeners behind closed-doors and into the room where deals are made. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Episodes
October 23, 2024 • 30 mins
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.
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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 ca...
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October 16, 2024 • 21 mins
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.
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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.sh...
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October 9, 2024 • 25 mins
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.
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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 raisi...
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September 25, 2024 • 33 mins
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.
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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 ...
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September 18, 2024 • 28 mins
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.
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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 a...
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September 11, 2024 • 34 mins
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.
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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
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September 4, 2024 • 31 mins
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.
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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
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August 28, 2024 • 37 mins
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.
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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
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August 21, 2024 • 29 mins
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?
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August 14, 2024 • 30 mins
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.
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Watch the FutureMoney pitch on YouTube @thepitchshow
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July 31, 2024 • 15 mins
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.
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July 24, 2024 • 38 mins
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.
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July 10, 2024 • 39 mins
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 Hu...
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June 26, 2024 • 41 mins
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.
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June 12, 2024 • 41 mins
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?
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May 29, 2024 • 38 mins
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?
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May 15, 2024 • 50 mins
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 Ung...
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May 8, 2024 • 47 mins
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 dr...
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May 1, 2024 • 36 mins
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 Un...
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April 24, 2024 • 44 mins
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.
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