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How Latin American Founders Keep Their Deals Alive Sep 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:19 Ariel Puga And actually he turned down an offer to work at Meta in San Francisco in the fintech space.
  • ▶ 14:38 Ariel Puga Our first investor was Plug and Play from San Francisco.

Track Mental Health with a Wearable?! Sep 10, 2025 · 3 mentions

Season 13 Finale: Who Needs VC Anyway? Jun 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:03 unnamed speaker Like, if this company was based in San Francisco and they had someone who, like, came from AI or, like, you know, had a more typical technology, machine learning, data science background as, like, the leader.

LTK for Food… Will VCs invest in this $10 TRILLION market!? Jun 18, 2025 · 3 mentions

VCs Offered $2M — Will This Profitable Startup Survive the Pitch? May 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:36 Julian Alvarez I'm originally from Medellin, Colombia, but grew up in Texas and now living here in San Francisco in the Bay.

Will VCs Bet $3M on This Custom Helmet Startup? Mar 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:10 Josh Muccio After meeting for coffee in SF, he got an invite from Whitman to come check out the factory.

#126 Handle: The Uncut Pitch Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

#111 Stigma: Whose Business Is It Anyway? Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:47 Ariana Vargas I went to San Francisco and met with Sequoia and they were like, this is a bad path.

#106 Dotcal: The Calendar Wars Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:03 David Matthews If I had my way, we're building a ten billion dollar company, I would, I would raise a hundred million dollar valuation right now, but the truth is, is the market from the investors, the market that we've raised from so far has an appetite…

#101 Josh Pitches The Pitch Mar 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:29 Josh Muccio It started in 2016 when we hosted our first big pitch event at a studio in San Francisco.

#94 The Breaking Point Mar 4, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:56 Josh Muccio Moses and Kevin were headed out to San Francisco for a big presentation to investors. 3 times in the scene

How I Saved My Startup Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:56 Charles Hudson A good cup of pour-over coffee in New York or San Francisco is going to run you four to five dollars in a coffee shop.

#88 How Startups Can Succeed in a Pandemic Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:10 unnamed speaker We are based in Mexico City, but we have a few customers in San Francisco and Miami.

#84 The Napkin Pitch Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

#73 Enough Sales Calls Already! Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:05 Andrew Hoagland Yeah, so to date we've raised about 400,000 dollars via a friends and family slash angel, and then we got some pre-seed money from a firm called Village Global out in San Francisco.

#69 When Less Is Not More Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

Fighting the 24/7 Startup Grind Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

#67 Call-in Pitch Competition Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

#62 Pivot or Die Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

From Startup Novice to Veteran Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

#61 Can a Zebra Survive in a Unicorn World? Mar 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:17 Josh Muccio It started when she met a founder named Mata Cepeda at a conference in San Francisco. 2 times in the scene

#60 Is This the Amazon Prime of Airline Tickets? Mar 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

‘It Was a Disaster’ Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:06 Josh Muccio So back in 2016, there was a founder who pitched our investors at a studio in San Francisco, and let's just say that this pitch did not go as planned.

#55 A New Spin on VR Mar 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:14 Phil Nadel Yeah, just to be clear, he's interacting in virtual reality with this instructor who's in San Francisco.
  • ▶ 7:21 Tom Impalameni So just to give you an example, we went and we signed up to DJ school in San Francisco.

#54 Is Selling in Walmart a Good Thing? Mar 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:11 Charles Hudson A good cup of pour-over coffee in New York or San Francisco is gonna run you four to five dollars in a coffee shop.
  • ▶ 26:47 Sheel Mohnot Over the past several months, I've started to see it in offices everywhere in San Francisco, and I see people loving it.

Is the ICO Gold Rush Over? Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

After the Pitch: Sudden Coffee Mar 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:31 Josh Muccio Once Calais had his idea for Sudden Coffee, he headed to San Francisco in search of a business partner.
  • ▶ 20:59 Joshua Zloof And then we shifted, actually, where we started partnering with roasters more, uh, more closely, and so we launched a partnership with Equator Coffee, which is a San Francisco-based roaster, and that was actually a pretty big shift for us.

#51 This Bot Can Fight Your ATM Fees Mar 3, 2025 · 4 mentions

#42 How Much Do You Trust Your Barista? Mar 3, 2025 · 5 mentions

#41 Can This Startup Help Retailers Take on Amazon? Mar 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:42 Chelsea Lee We did a couple hundred transaction, um, transactions with alpha and beta customers in New York, Chicago, LA, and San Francisco.
  • ▶ 14:10 Charles Hudson So I just think about a lot of, I think a lot about these digitally native vertical brands that are doing things, tennis shoes, apparel, that are, they're in New York City, they're in San Francisco, they're in LA, and they're heavily…

#36 When Two Startups Love Each Other Very Much ... Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

#35 The Proof Is in the Pudding Mar 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

#29 Could This Be the Next Airbnb? Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:26 Josh Muccio The pitch you just heard happened on the first of our three-day pitch event in San Francisco.

#22 Investor FOMO: Lunar Wireless Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

#21 Metabrew Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

#12 "I Don't Need Your Money" Teamable Mar 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

#11 Tesloop Mar 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

#10 Sudden Coffee Mar 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:04 Josh Muccio Once Calais had his idea for Sudden Coffee, he headed to San Francisco in search of a business partner.
  • ▶ 25:43 Joshua Zloof Filter out San Francisco and New York because those markets are going to be influenced by your social networks.

#7 Shimmur Mar 3, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 2:34 Jake Chapman You don't walk around barefoot on the streets of San Francisco, do you? 3 times in the scene

#91 “If We Don’t Get the Money by Friday …” Mar 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:37 Cody Candee We have 65 store locations between New York City and San Francisco.
  • ▶ 6:16 Josh Muccio They hired a new developer in late 2018, and then by April of 2019, they had a team of four working out of their San Francisco office.

#1 Babyscripts Mar 3, 2025 · 1 mention

AI Needs Feedback Intelligence. Will Chinar’s Pitch Seal the Deal? Nov 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:31 Chinar Movsisian Uh, and most recently I was at Vineti, venture-backed startup here in San Francisco, and a couple of other projects I have delivered.

Will Investors Bite? Christy’s $4M Plant-Based Chip Pitch! Aug 28, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:37 unnamed speaker I had left the restaurant industry, so I was working at a two Michelin star restaurant here in San Francisco.

"Burnt Out Engineers Rejoice! AI-Driven Cloud Scaling & Anomaly Detection Saves the Day!" Jun 12, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:14 Nilo Rahmani We were actually in San Francisco when we got the email and we didn't even question it.

$3M in Sales – But Can This Heatless Hair Care Innovation Win the Startup Funding Competition? May 29, 2024 · 1 mention

$1.5M on the Line! Raising Venture Capital for the Future of Podcast Automation Software! May 15, 2024 · 1 mention

Startup Funding Competition: Can This Founder Raising Venture Capital Secure a $550M Exit. May 8, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 16:18 Bill Smith They were New York, San Francisco, LA type markets, and they didn't do anything in the center of the country.
  • ▶ 17:39 Bill Smith So I flew to San Francisco for the first time. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:52 Bill Smith When I was building Shipt, I needed to have a home in San Francisco, and experienced all the pain of trying to find an apartment on Craigslist, and calling different realtors, and I had to get a cashier's check, and fill out a paper…

Startup Funding Competition: Will VCs Invest in AI-Powered Fashion Models Disrupting E-Commerce? May 1, 2024 · 1 mention

$4M at Stake! Will This Franchise Business Opportunity Transform Alternative Asset Investing? Apr 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:35 Josh Muccio You're invited to join us in San Francisco this June to record season 12 of the show.

Women-Led Startup Funding: Will Investors Bet on This $5M Bootstrapped Feminine Hygiene Brand? Apr 17, 2024 · 1 mention

VCs Debate: Is This Hyperlocal Delivery Business Worth a $3 Million Seed Round? Nov 23, 2023 · 1 mention

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