Season 11: We're Bringing the Heat
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Apple PodcastsThe 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 everything from pants you can pee in, to Airbnb for churches. And it wouldn’t be 2024 if we didn’t throw in some AI and alternative investments!
Tune in to season 11 to hear the true story of how venture deals get done. And this season, a LOT of deals get done.
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The Panel
Behind Genius Ventures
“I think about investing in founders on three axes. Are they a good storyteller? Do they have a strong mission? And the third is execution velocity — how quickly do they execute when they've figured out the right priority.”
Beck: Ooh we need quiet.
Investors: Lisa. Lisa.
Lisa: We're rolling!
The Pitch Season 11 is finally here! Recorded for the first time in front of a live studio audience. We invited the best startup founders from across the country to join us in Miami. And they showed up ready to pitch!
Kavitta: We are building the classroom of the future.
Monica: We are redefining feminine hygiene for tweens.
Emmanuel: Church real estate is the largest untapped commercial real estate supply source in this country
Georgia Grace: Pants were never designed to be worn by women in the first place.
Kavitta: I, as our one-woman sales and marketing team, have built a $35 million pipeline
Luis: Who wants to benefit from this opportunity as well?
What happens on our show is the true story of how venture deals get done. And this season is unlike any other… you’ll hear dope founders pitch everything from pants you can pee in…
Georgia Grace: a third of our customers actually go commando
To Airbnb for churches….
Beck: God is up and to the right.
To teeny tiny tampons…
Beck: You got a little - oh - little, little vagina. Little squishy.
[laughter]
Monica: It's a uterus.
[laughter]
Even an alternative investment platform that sounds more like fast food than big tech.
Jillian: What's the biggest challenge here?
Kenny: Raising venture capital, because I use the 'f' word. Franchising. [laughs]
And of course, just the right amount of AI startups sprinkled throughout….including one that’s coming for MY job
Edward: We automate your podcast production
AI Voice: Is this the real Josh reading this? I don’t even know anymore.
This season we’re bringing you the most legendary VC panel ever assembled.
Mac: As a unicorn hunter, I want to see every unicorn. Not just the unicorns in the one pen.
Beck: [slaps table] I gotta start my muffin business.
Elizabeth: Do you love the problem you're working on?
Jillian: Do you not think that the valuation is a little frothy?
Cyan: I love you.
Kavitta: Thank you.
Cyan: And I love this company.
Just to recap: we put unicorn founders and baller VCs in one room, and then hit record in front of a live audience.
[cheers]
Mac: Play the clap track
Paige: I love that
Elizabeth: It's like a football game or something.
Paige: Yeah!
Season 11 starts April 3rd. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Follow The Pitch on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
And for those who like to watch their pitches, don't forget to subscribe to The Pitch Show on YouTube, where we’re going to be dropping full episodes this season.
Mac: Sooooo
Beck: I love when it starts with so! [laughs]
So turn on notifications for ‘The Pitch’. You don’t want to miss even one episode. This season is so good.
Beck: I wanna hear you're gonna grind to the end.
Josh: Sorry, you're getting really intense right now.
Beck: I am.
Season 11, we’re bringing the heat!
Josh: And Charles, did you invent the pre seed category?
Charles: No. I’ve been accused of such, but no
Elizabeth: He did! He did
Mac: He popularized the term pre seed
Charles: I don’t know, there were people doing it before me
Josh: Did you make it cool?
Mac: Yes
Elizabeth: Yes
Cyan: I think he made it cool
Elizabeth: He made it cool
Cyan: You make everything cool
Josh: I like it
The Founder
CEO & Co-Founder, Gnara Apparel at Gnara
Hailing from the Appalachian Mountains of Western Maryland, Georgia Grace Edwards is the CEO and Co-Founder of Gnara, a venture capital-backed, Colorado-based startup whose mission is to help everyone answer nature’s call – quite literally. GG got the idea for the GoFly – Gnara’s internationally patented zipper technology – while working as a glacier guide in Alaska. Frustrated by having to choose between tactical dehydration or the freezing hassle that was using the bathroom outside, she and eventually, a small team, set out to make the outdoors more accessible through innovative and inclusive design. Prototyped from her Middlebury College dorm room in Vermont, the GoFly can now be found in Gnara apparel online and on the floors of the largest retailers in North America, including Moosejaw Mountaineering, Title Nine, Public Lands, and REI. Gnara’s GoFly Tech has won the 2022 and 2023 Outdoor Retailer Awards, as well as Top Product Awards and recognition by Women’s Health, CNN, USA Today, GearJunkie, the U.S. Senate, Forbes, Blister, Outside Business Journal, and more. GG currently resides in the Rocky Mountains and brings experience as a Fulbright Fellow, Wild Gift Fellow, Futurist Project Fellow, economic consultant, and TEDxTalk speaker.
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