The Pitch

Josh Muccio

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.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best The Pitch episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to The Pitch for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite The Pitch episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

How I Saved My Startup

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04/22/20 • 40 min

Investors are giving founders everywhere an ultimatum: just find a way to survive the next few months. This had us concerned about the entrepreneurs who’ve been on this show. Debbie Wei Mullen pitched Copper Cow Coffee to our investors a few years ago, and in this episode Debbie tells the sequence of events that led to a few early, strategic decisions made in 2020 that set up her business to outlast the pandemic.

Today's investors are Alexandra Stanton, Sheel Mohnot, Charles Hudson and Phil Nadel.

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#111 Stigma: Whose Business Is It Anyway?

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04/12/23 • 37 min

Founder Ariana Vargas wants to destigmatize talking about mental health. So she built a social app. No wait, now it’s a Slack app for the workplace? This founder is willing to do whatever it takes to secure investment - maybe too willing. Will Ariana build the business she wants, or the one investors want?

Today’s investors are Jillian Manus, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell, and Neal Sáles-Griffin. If you’ve been enjoying our comeback season, will you share The Pitch with a friend?

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Disrupting Venture Capital

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11/04/20 • 19 min

Why does so little venture capital money go to women, Black, and Latinx founders? In this episode, investors Charles Hudson and Elizabeth Yin explain how VC is set up in a way that excludes many founders and businesses, and what their funds are doing to expand access to capital.

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Give the Money Back

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07/01/20 • 20 min

Should startups get money from the Paycheck Protection Program? Investor Jillian Manus says that for some startups, the answer should be no. She even convinced one of her startup founders to send over $2 million back. But investor Elizabeth Yin says the problem with the PPP goes deeper than that.

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#75 “I Want Bro Money Too”

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10/09/19 • 35 min

The 2.4 trillion dollar fashion industry is due for a makeover, according to Andrea Madho. She says her company, Lab141, will be the biggest change to the way clothes are made in over a century. But it’s a moonshot and she knows it, now the investors know it too and will have to decide whether or not they think Andrea can get it done.

Today's investors are Soraya Darabi, Sarah Downey, Michael Hyatt, Charles Hudson and Phil Nadel.

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#74 Stop Killing Your Plants

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10/02/19 • 32 min

Ryan Lee says he has a better way to buy plants, on his website, Rooted. To conquer the market, Ryan has a big, audacious plan, and this is his very first time pitching it to VCs. Find out if he can convince the investors that money really does grow on trees.

Today's investors are Nimi Katragadda, Al Doan, Sheel Mohnot and Charles Hudson.

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#68 Dogs & Dating: A Match Made in Heaven?

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08/07/19 • 35 min

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 for $1.5 million to help get 1,000,000 new users on her app. Now Leigh just has to convince the investors that dogs and dating are a match made in Heaven.

Today's investors are Soraya Darabi, Sarah Downey, Michael Hyatt, Charles Hudson and Phil Nadel.

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When You Grow Too Fast

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08/21/19 • 33 min

A little over a year ago, Xiao Wang came on the show to pitch his startup, Boundless. He told investors that his company was going to help immigrants cut through all the bureaucracy and paperwork required to get legal status. Today, the stakes around immigration are even higher than they were a year ago, so we wanted to see how Boundless is faring in this new world.

Today's investors are Jillian Manus, Phil Nadel, Daniel Gulati and Michael Hyatt.

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I’ve Looked Death in the Eye

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07/17/19 • 38 min

When he came on the show two years ago, Amado Guloy said his startup would change the business of animal agriculture. And the investors bought it! But since then, Amado has found himself at a crossroads between his own health and the health of Rex.

Today's investors are Jillian Manus, Phil Nadel, Daniel Gulati and Michael Hyatt.

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The Patent Trap

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08/26/20 • 20 min

Is getting a software patent actually a good idea? For many startups a patent is a shield meant to prevent the competition from stealing their most innovative ideas. But in this episode, investors Sarah Downey and Phil Nadel explain how software patents can be a trap.

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