Investor on The Pitch Seasons 6–13
Elizabeth Yin is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software startups. Before founding Hustle Fund, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups, where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. She’s also an entrepreneur who co-founded the ad-tech company LaunchBit, which was acquired in 2014. Her book is called Democratizing Knowledge: How to Build a Startup, Raise Money, Run a VC Firm, and Everything in Between.
June 18, 2025
#164 Sundae: LTK for Groceries
Anastasia Trofimova sold everything, moved across the world and started Sundae to make food content shoppable—linking influencers, grocery carts, and brand dollars. Her pitch checks all the boxes. But when she asks for a $10M...
May 14, 2025
#163 CurieDx: AI Pocket Doctor
After a decade in the ER, Dr. Therese Canares built CurieDx—an AI-powered app that can detect strep throat from a smartphone photo with 88% accuracy. But when she pitches both a consumer and enterprise play, the investors pus...
May 7, 2025
#162 Jungle: Your AI Study Coach
Julian Alvarez wants to turn every student into a super-learner. With $1M in ARR and 180,000 monthly active users, he’s off to a strong start. Can Jungle become the Duolingo for studying, or will ChatGPT steal his lunch money...
April 9, 2025
#159 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
With deals from LinkedIn, Figma, and a Fortune 100 giant, Kelsey Willock’s startup Aura Finance is off to a strong start. But will early traction be enough to justify a steep valuation in a competitive space? This is The Pitc...
April 2, 2025
#158 Avelo: The World’s First Smart Running Shoe
Royi Metser’s smart running shoe promises fewer injuries—but are runners ready to subscribe to their shoes? This is The Pitch for Avelo . Featuring investors Charles Hudson , Elizabeth Yin , and two new investors to the show,...
March 19, 2025
#156 Barberino’s: Italian Luxury Takes on the American Dream
Michele Callegari has grown Barberino's to the #1 luxury men's grooming brand in Italy. Can he replicate the same success in the US – and if he does, will the Italian investors want their cut? This is The Pitch for Barberino’...
Feb. 19, 2025
Season 13: The Human Side of Venture
A Johns Hopkins ER doctor, a Formula 1 engineer, and an artist walk into The Pitch Room... meet this season's extraordinary founders! We screened 2,000 companies, and 12 made the cut. But with negotiations turned up to 11, wi...
Nov. 20, 2024
#152 Oma Health
Khaylah Epps wants to change the face of healthcare in the south. This is The Pitch for Oma Health . Featuring investors Cyan Banister , Charles Hudson , Elizabeth Yin , Mac Conwell and Jesse Middleton . ... Watch Khaylah pit...
Nov. 13, 2024
#151 Feedback Intelligence
Is your AI hallucinating? This AI can fix it. This is Chinar Movsisyan's pitch for Feedback Intelligence . Featuring investors Cyan Banister , Charles Hudson , Elizabeth Yin , Mac Conwell and Jesse Middleton . ... Register fo...
Nov. 6, 2024
#150 Remynt
Gwyneth Borden has a vendetta. This is The Pitch for Remynt . Featuring investors Cyan Banister , Mac Conwell , Ben Taft and Elizabeth Yin . ... Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/p...
Oct. 23, 2024
#148 ESAI
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 . Register for our virtual ...
Oct. 16, 2024
#147 Partytrick
Award winning event planner makes the pivot to tech. This is Virginia Frischkorn's pitch for Partytrick . ... Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party Applications are now open for ...
Oct. 9, 2024
#146 ReCraft Beer
Two of Josh's favorite hobbies—beer and startups—collide in The Pitch Room. This is Dean Eberhardt's pitch for ReCraft . Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.show/party Applications are no...
Sept. 25, 2024
#145 immersionED
Chad Wilson wants to disrupt history class with video games. This is The Pitch for immersionED . ... To invest with us, become an LP in thepitch.fund Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch Party on December 11th pitch.s...
Sept. 4, 2024
#142 Kinometrix
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 Devina Desai's pitch for Kinometrix . ... Register for our virtual Season Finale Watch...
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, be...
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, ...
July 31, 2024
Season 12: Tear Down The System
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 ...
July 10, 2024
#137 Gnara: Disrupting Your Pants
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 Geor...
June 26, 2024
#136 KredFeed: The Next Mexican Unicorn?
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 investo...
June 12, 2024
#135 Thoras AI: The Twin Effect
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 ...
May 15, 2024
#133 PodcastAI: Josh Gets Displaced
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 productiv...
May 1, 2024
#131 Flock AI: Model Generated Models
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 pr...
April 17, 2024
#129 RedDrop: Pitching the Big Vision
Monica Williams wants to revolutionize the period experience for tweens. With $5 million in sales in just two years, she’s on her way. Now she wants to raise venture to scale her bootstrapped company. Will Monica get to pitch...
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 acce...
March 20, 2024
Season 11: We're Bringing the Heat
The Pitch is back for season 11! Recorded for the first time in front of a live studio audience, we invited the top startup founders and VCs from across the country to join us in Miami. Visionary founders will pitch everythin...
Nov. 22, 2023
#126 Handle: The Uncut Pitch
For our season 10 finale, we’re trying something crazy. We’re giving you a full pitch from start to finish with no editing whatsoever! Founder Chase Robbins presents his snack delivery business, Handle, to investors Paige Doh...
Nov. 8, 2023
#124 ECGO: Turning Trash Into Treasure With AI
Ever stood at the recycling bin wondering, “Is this cup really recyclable?'' Enter Nicole Toole, the founder of ECGO, an AI-powered app designed to tackle this confusion. With ECGO, you snap a photo of any item, and the app w...
Oct. 25, 2023
#122 Wist: The Killer Use Case for VR?
Venture investors have spent the last decade searching for the killer use case for VR. Today’s founder, Andrew McHugh, thinks he’s found it with his startup, Wist. But days before Andrew gave his pitch, Apple sent shockwaves ...
Sept. 27, 2023
#120 Bevz: A Tech Bro Walks Into a Corner Store...
Jason Vego wants to disrupt an industry so old school he has to sell door to door. Yet somehow his SaaS platform for convenience stores boasts a 95% conversion rate from free trial. Another number comes up in The Pitch Room t...
Sept. 13, 2023
#118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
If you're murdered in the US, there's only a 57% chance your killer will be found. Jim Brown aims to change this statistic by enabling the massive true crime community to solve cold cases on his website Uncovered.com. But mys...
Sept. 6, 2023
#117 Lotus: Hardware Hail Mary
Despite a decade in engineering at Apple, Dhaval Patel didn’t have any smart technology in his home. So he designed a ring that converts every home into a smart home – using old technology found in your typical TV remote. But...
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. She...
Aug. 9, 2023
Season 10: Deals, Dollars, Drama & YouTube!
We’re back for Season 10 with double the digits, double the deals, and double the drama. Your favorite investors return along with some new voices ready to shake up The Pitch Room. And for the first time ever, we’re posting n...
May 17, 2023
#114 Brevity: Your AI Pitch Coach
Co-founders Kelvin Johnson and Max Huc know first impressions are everything. That’s why they created Brevity, an AI powered software to help craft a persuasive first pitch. But pitching a pitch product to a room full of pitc...
April 12, 2023
#111 Stigma: Whose Business Is It Anyway?
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...
April 5, 2023
#110 HandsDown: The Accelerator Pitch
Jenna Sereni believes the best product recommendations come from family and friends. That’s the genesis of her social shopping app, HandsDown. Her pitch starts out like normal - until the investors flip the script and start p...
March 15, 2023
#107 Terrascope: A Computer Vision Tale
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 a...
March 8, 2023
#106 Dotcal: The Calendar Wars
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 th...
March 1, 2023
#105 Teffola: Granola Guy Approved
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, f...
Feb. 22, 2023
#104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?
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 go...
Feb. 15, 2023
#103 Get Lost in the AWSM Sauce
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 de...
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 h...
Nov. 23, 2022
Our Comeback Season Is Here!
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 ...
Oct. 14, 2020
#98 Hello! You’ve Reached The Pitch Helpline
We're now in a business climate transformed by Covid. And founders need help figuring out how to impress investors, find new customers, and connect with potential cofounders in this uncertain time. We wanted to help out. So w...
May 6, 2020
#89 A Big Bet on an Ex-Trucker
For years, Pierre Laguerre worked as a truck driver. During those years he saw one of the biggest inefficiencies in the industry up-close: getting available drivers matched with trucks ready to get on the road. Barely a year ...
April 15, 2020
#88 How Startups Can Succeed in a Pandemic
In the last few weeks, COVID-19 has changed just about every business in the country. Investors everywhere are scrambling to help their startups survive the pandemic. On today’s show, investors Elizabeth Yin and Charles Hudso...
March 25, 2020
#86 If the Suit Fits, Invest.
Founder Ray Li says he can make you a custom suit, out of a quiz. And his company, Sene, is already making a profit. Ray wants to pursue the technology AND build up a cool brand but the investors wonder if Ray would be better...
March 4, 2020
#84 The Napkin Pitch
Tiffany Walling McGarity called in to the show and you, our listeners, voted her on to pitch the investors. But from the moment she stepped in the room, it was clear that this pitch would play out differently from the rest. O...
Feb. 19, 2020
#83 Can Small Bras Be a Big Market?
In VC, investors want to win big — that’s why they love highly scalable tech companies so much. But today’s founder, Jaclyn Fu, is selling actual things. Her startup, Pepper, makes real bras in a very real factory. There’s no...
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 connec...
Sept. 18, 2019
#72 How Niche Is Too Niche?
Orion Brown is very early in her journey as an entrepreneur. In fact, this is her first pitch to venture capitalists! At this early stage, the investors are listening for something a bit different. They just want to know, is ...