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#107 Terrascope: A Computer Vision Tale
March 15, 2023

This tale starts with a problem Kehan Zhou found when trying to buy a hobby farm. Zillow didnt have good search options for land and LandWatch.com was even worse, so Kehan ventured off to combine computer vision technology and satellite imagery to create

#106 Dotcal: The Calendar Wars
March 08, 2023

There are tons of companies popping up in the scheduling space now that Calendly is valued at 6 billion dollars. Everyone wants to build the next billion dollar calendar app, including David Matthews, founder of Dotcal. He thinks hes created a scheduling

#105 Teffola: Granola Guy Approved
March 01, 2023

A few years ago, Claire Smith moved back to her family farm, where they practice sustainable farming, and created Teffola. Its granola made with an ancient Ethiopian grain called teff, which is filled with lots of protein, fiber, iron, and calcium. The o

#104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?
February 22, 2023

Clothing rental companies get a bad rap in the VC world. It seems like no matter how much money investors sink into them, they always just fail? But todays founder thinks she found a way to make it work. Capri Wheaton is going after a demographic that a

#103 Get Lost in the AWSM Sauce
February 15, 2023

AWSM Sauce founders Carl and Paul have perfected a sustainable way of making sauce. But then, they had another idea a futuristic way of getting sauce on our plates. Will the investors see this as a two-innovations-in-one deal, or will they get lost in t

#102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid
February 08, 2023

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 his company and come back to hi

#101 Josh Pitches The Pitch
November 30, 2022

The Pitch is back! And a whole lot has changed since buying the show from Gimlet, bringing host Josh Muccio and cofounder Lisa Muccio somewhere they never thought theyd be pitching in front of the investorson their own show. But is the host of The Pit

Our Comeback Season Is Here!
November 23, 2022

Welcome back to The Pitch! This season, we head to Chicago to meet 14 founders with 12 business ideas big enough to change the world. Everything from a better ketchup to a potential solution to one of the biggest problems of our time - energy. The founder

Return of The Pitch
July 27, 2022

Host Josh Muccio picks up the mic once again... with some personal news.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#100 When Investors Take the Hot Seat
December 09, 2020

This week, we've got a show like no other. Instead of startup founders asking for money to grow their business, we hear investors Jake Chapman and Howie Diamond pitch their new venture capital fund. And they learn right away that things on the other side