How To Crush Your Pitch To Investors Episodes
Learn the tips and tricks from some of our most successful pitches.
Aug. 28, 2024
#141 Christie's Chips
What happens when a Michelin-trained palate makes junk food with no junk? This is The Pitch for Christie’s Chips . ... Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party To invest with us, b…
Aug. 14, 2024
#139 FutureMoney
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™. To invest with us,…
April 3, 2024
#127 Nectir: The Classroom of the Future
Kavitta Ghai struggled in school due to autism and ADHD until a positive experience with a college professor transformed her academic journey. Convinced this was the future, she launched a startup to make classrooms more acc…
Aug. 23, 2023
#115 Gemist: The Crown Jewel of Venture
When Madeline Fraser tried to design her engagement ring online, she was stunned to find it couldn’t be done. After bringing a cash deposit to a rando in LA, Madeline got her custom ring and, with it, a new business idea. Sh…
Feb. 8, 2023
#102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid
Founder Luis Medina Rivas travels across the world to pitch his big vision on how to solve one of the most important problems of our time - energy. His pitch is close to perfect. However, the VCs worry about the location of …
Jan. 8, 2020
#79 The Anti-JUUL
“Move fast and break things” is a mantra for a lot of startup founders — but what if the federal government is slowing you down? That’s the situation that Josh Israel is in with his startup, Hava Health. Josh needs to wait f…
Nov. 13, 2019
#78 Got Goals? Grab a Cru
Tiffany Dufu has spent her career uplifting women and girls. Now, she’s turning a lifetime’s worth of expertise into a venture-backed business. Her startup, The Cru, is dedicated to helping women achieve their goals by conne…
Aug. 7, 2019
#68 Dogs & Dating: A Match Made in Heaven?
Back in May we asked entrepreneurs to call in and give us their best pitches. The winner was Leigh Isaacson and her startup Dig — a dating app for people who love dogs. In this episode, Leigh enters the pitch room and asks f…
Aug. 22, 2018
#42 How Much Do You Trust Your Barista?
Cody Candee believes his company, Bounce, is the key to freeing us from the stuff we lug around all day. But can he convince investors that his temporary storage solution isn’t a liability disaster waiting to happen? Today's…
Aug. 15, 2018
#41 Can This Startup Help Retailers Take on Amazon?
Amazon is on track to grab nearly HALF of all online retail sales this year. But not if Chelsie Lee’s startup Shipsi has a say in the matter. She wants to give online retailers the ability to compete, by helping them offer s…
June 13, 2018
#39 This Pitch is Damn Near Perfect
Stefan Loble wows the room with his near perfect pitch for Bluffworks, a company that makes travel-business attire. But is his compelling story enough to get investors to sign on? Today's investors are Nicole Verkindt, Micha…
May 23, 2018
#36 When Two Startups Love Each Other Very Much ...
Margot Schmorak says half of all vacation rentals aren’t listed online—and she sees that as a big opportunity for her startup. But things get messy in the pitch room when Margot reveals that Hostfully comes with a little ext…
April 25, 2018
#32 Is Immigration the Next Venture-Scale Business?
The U.S. immigration system is a bureaucratic nightmare. And it’s only getting worse. Founder Xiao Wang has a plan to solve that with his startup, Boundless. Today's investors are Jillian Manus, Daniel Gulati, Phil Nadel, an…
April 4, 2018
#29 Could This Be the Next Airbnb?
Can Tye and Courtney Caldwell convince investors that their skills will transfer from the barbershop to the boardroom?
Jan. 17, 2018
#22 Investor FOMO: Lunar Wireless
Hunter Rosenblume is pitching Lunar Wireless, a company he co-founded as an answer to pricey cell phone plans. But getting investors to gamble on a 22-year-old who claims he can take on a decades-old industry is a hard sell.…