The Pitch Show

The Pitch Show

Where real entrepreneurs pitch to real investors—for real money.

The Pitch podcast takes you behind closed doors and into the world of startups: how people sell their ideas, what makes investors tick, and how these initial conversations can bloom into business deals—or die on the vine.

Recent Episodes

Where Are They Now? The Qleek Trilogy

#108 Qleek Pt. III: A Postmortem and a Comeback

March 22, 2023

Ismail Salhi and Johanna Hartzheim, co-founders of Qleek, have been through the wringer. They first pitched their company on our show in 2017, when an investment from a listener helped bring them back from the brink. Today w…

#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 didn’t have good search options for land and LandWatch.com was even worse, so Kehan ventured off to combine computer vision technology …

#106 Dotcal: The Calendar Wars

March 8, 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 t…

Food & Beverage Pitch

#105 Teffola: Granola Guy Approved

March 1, 2023

A few years ago, Claire Smith moved back to her family farm, where they practice sustainable farming, and created Teffola. It’s granola made with an ancient Ethiopian grain called teff, which is filled with lots of protein, …

Badass Female Founders

#104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?

Feb. 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 today’s founder thinks she found a way to make it work. Capri Wheaton is g…

Food & Beverage Pitch

#103 Get Lost in the AWSM Sauce

Feb. 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 d…

How To Crush Your Pitch To Investors Josh's Picks

#102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid

Feb. 8, 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 …

Recent Blog Posts

The Pitch Origin Story Part 1, How It All Began

You might be surprised to hear Josh Muccio, host of The Pitch podcast, has a co-founder... and it's his wife. Hi! I’m Lisa Muccio and I’m th…

About the Host

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Josh Muccio

Cofounder of The Pitch

Josh is an entrepreneur-turned-podcaster at The Pitch. He got his start in 2010, pitching his e-commerce business to a panel of investors to complete his finance degree. After exiting the business in 2014, Josh ventured into the world of podcasting and started The Pitch. The show has been listened to by tens of millions, and to-date, investors on The Pitch have put over $10mm in companies that got their start on the show.