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How Latin American Founders Keep Their Deals Alive
- ▶ 17:47 Jesse Middleton We're mostly in the US. 2 times in the scene
$1.4M Ask: Can AI Fix Dirty Hotel Rooms?
- ▶ 3:36 Al Lagunas Now, in the U.S., this issue of a labor shortage isn't just applying hospitality. 2 times in the scene
Track Mental Health with a Wearable?!
- ▶ 2:49 Antonio Forenza Now, like me, three out of four people in the US experience sustained stress to the point that is affecting their physiological and mental health.
Season 13 Finale: Who Needs VC Anyway?
- ▶ 19:20 Kelsey Willock The entire US based population.
- ▶ 31:47 Kate Ambrose So I think what you're doing is wonderful, not least of all because I would like the men in America to look better. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:53 unnamed speaker It's actually easier for us to approach influencers in the U.S. because they all understand this model. 8 times in the scene
LTK for Food… Will VCs invest in this $10 TRILLION market!?
- ▶ 3:00 Anastasia Trofimova It accounts for 30% of global greenhouse emissions and 90% of US population has a vitamin or mineral deficiency. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 Anastasia Trofimova If you take just one brand, let's say Nestle, they're spending over just in the US and just on digital marketing over a billion dollars every year.
- ▶ 11:28 Anastasia Trofimova So I can tell you that in 2019, just in the US, online grocery shopping was two or three percent of the total market.
- ▶ 12:13 Elizabeth Yin When you come to the US, how are you thinking about approaching brands, retailers, et cetera? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:33 Anastasia Trofimova I mean, it's fantastic, our exceptional, I mean, Swedish market is so far behind the U.S. market. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:29 Anastasia Trofimova So there's one million open, and we're really looking for a U.S. based lead, because all the future rounds are going to be U.S. based. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:38 Anastasia Trofimova I mean, we just moved to the U.S.
- ▶ 29:42 Charles Hudson Well, tell me a little bit more just about, do you think you encounter, um, a different set of competitors here in the US? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:07 Josh Muccio Landing her first US VC would have given her crucial momentum in her round. 3 times in the scene
Will VCs Back 3D-Printed Conformal Batteries?
- ▶ 8:08 Gabe Elias I was one of two Americans on the team.
This Startup Solves a Billion-Dollar Problem in Restaurants with AI – Will It Get Funded?
- ▶ 3:11 Luisa Castellanos There are about 850,000 restaurants in the US, but we're ready to expand globally. 2 times in the scene
This Founder Built the World’s First Smart Running Shoe
- ▶ 1:29 Rowe Metzer My parents were immigrants to the U.S., and my dad, I watched him grow and build companies for the first 20 years of my life.
- ▶ 16:38 Kate McAndrew How many runners are there in the U S and how many of them are running enough that injury is an issue? 3 times in the scene
Will VCs Bet $3M on This Custom Helmet Startup?
- ▶ 0:23 Josh Muccio Today on the show, Whitman Kwok pitches an entirely new way to manufacture consumer products, right here in the good ol' U.S. of A.
- ▶ 2:54 Whitman Kwok There were about 3.8 million concussions in the US alone in sports related activities.
Will VCs Bet $1.5M on This Luxury Grooming Company’s U.S. Expansion?
- ▶ 0:22 Michele Callegari We will make Barberino the premier men's grooming brand in the United States. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12 Michele Callegari Hearing about the American dream, you know, this democratization, even me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:54 Michele Callegari If you want to be the number one brand in the world, you need to start with the number one country in the world, United States of America. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:06 Michele Callegari My co-founder and I excel in finding the best people for each specific topic, and this is something happened also here in the United States, so when we said, okay, we're gonna go and grow this business in the US market, we don't know… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:51 Michele Callegari The main proof to that was that VR-to-shaving was owing that for affluent men across the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:43 Michele Callegari My great-grandfather moved to the United States in 1910, so 115 years ago.
- ▶ 19:08 Michele Callegari There are like 15, 10 to 15 cities in America that are perfect for my urban format and where all my clients live. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:54 Michele Callegari And to kick off the operation here in the United States. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:21 Kate McAndrew So I think what you're doing is wonderful, not least of all because I would like the men in America to look better. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:42 Ben Zeises I think slower and steady growth just funded by the EBITDA, the profit from the Italy business to expand into the US might be a better approach.
- ▶ 26:14 Michele Callegari So starting from the U.S. venture, so in U.S. we are now like 65, 35, and we are targeting to go 60 to 40 and then fifty-fifty. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:03 Elizabeth Yin Roughly ten million US dollars in equity.
- ▶ 35:10 Jesse Middleton yeah, they've done a million plus in revenue, but who knows if the second location in the U S where, you know, Madison Avenue is very different than most of the rest of the country, you know? 2 times in the scene
The $1.2 Billion EdTech Opportunity Nobody Saw
- ▶ 0:55 Josh Muccio Kathy Wong wants to double the number of internship opportunities in America because internships gave her the access she needed to launch her career.
- ▶ 35:08 unnamed speaker So, I think what you're doing is wonderful, not least of all because I would like the men in America to look better. 4 times in the scene
Bike Theft is a $1B Crisis—Watch This Founder’s $1.5M VC Pitch
- ▶ 4:16 Mike Burton The billion car trips that we take in the United States each day, half of those are within two miles of their destinations, and cities are trying to figure out how to solve this problem.
- ▶ 8:22 Mike Burton My background was threat vulnerability assessments for U.S. embassies and other places around the world, and you cannot make anything completely defensible.
- ▶ 14:31 Mike Burton And so, I would say, yeah, we do now threaten a lot of those micro-mobility solutions like scooters and bikes, because 53% of Americans
- ▶ 17:45 Mike Burton And our lead engineer, very similar, from Pakistan originally, now a U.S. citizen, and has been working in this field for 20 or 25 years.
#126 Handle: The Uncut Pitch
- ▶ 3:00 Chase Robbins There's 10,000 universities in the United, sorry, there's 500 universities in the United States with over 10,000 students. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 Chase Robbins So there are 500 universities in the U.S. where, that we've identified are viable markets for this, and if you just do the napkin math, our average store at maturity is going to be doing two million a year, so it's a billion in revenue,… 3 times in the scene
#125 Locker: The Future of Online Shopping
- ▶ 21:06 Christine Locker A lot of the conversations I've had have been with male investors, and they aren't, I mean, 85% of consumption in America is, like, driven by females, so it's the woman buying for the house, it's the woman shopping for her partner, and so…
#124 ECGO: Turning Trash Into Treasure With AI
- ▶ 4:36 Nicole Sewell So, um, that was when I started reading the EPA sustainability report, and so they outlined that reducing recycling contamination was their number one objective to increase recycling in the United States.
- ▶ 9:50 Martin Tobias Oh, don't make the rest of America California, please.
#123 Outlines: A Venture-Backed Shower Curtain?
- ▶ 2:26 Luke Barkley Young And many people know that recyclables in America, of everything we put into our recycling bins, only around six percent of them are actually recycled.
- ▶ 4:27 Luke Barkley Young And then, uh, we're shipping to the U.S.
- ▶ 26:36 Luke Barkley Young We actually just passed a pretty significant milestone, which is, like, 10,000 homes across America now choose our lines for the shower liners and are recycling with us, so it's...
#121 Ride iQ: Peloton for Horses
- ▶ 4:20 Beck Bamberger But that's eight million in the U.S.?
#120 Bevz: A Tech Bro Walks Into a Corner Store...
- ▶ 2:35 Jason Vigo That's pretty much what you'll see across the a 150,000 convenience stores in the U.S. and the 1.2 million convenience stores globally.
#118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
#117 Lotus: Hardware Hail Mary
- ▶ 2:45 Duval Sanchez 91% of US homes were built before smart homes.
#116 Kimoyo: Is This African Startup Venture Backable?
- ▶ 4:07 Maryam Braima I've always been a Nigerian American, Nigerian first, American second. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:32 Martin Tobias I know you have some U.S. investors.
- ▶ 14:59 Erica Wenger What I will tell you is I only invest in US-based companies, typically with US customers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:37 Martin Tobias I get a little concerned when I see only US VCs in an, in a foreign country.
- ▶ 24:27 Maryam Braima Yeah, we, it was a small, we actually, all the rest of our, our African investors, our strategy was to first go with US slash Western, more well-known names, honestly, and then switch over to African investors with that kind of validation.
- ▶ 29:56 Maryam Braima Like people want the same success as you want in the U.S., but you want a lower failure rate than you see in the U.S. 2 times in the scene
#115 Gemist: The Crown Jewel of Venture
- ▶ 9:10 Madeline Fraser I'm just going to target the U S and right now there are about, uh, 55 to 60,000 retailers just in the United States. 2 times in the scene
#112 Natrion: The Holy Grail of Battery Tech
- ▶ 19:00 Jillian Manus I was told by one person that, that over 260 companies are trying to crack this chemistry code in the US, in just the US.
#111 Stigma: Whose Business Is It Anyway?
- ▶ 2:38 Ariana Vargas Last year, US employers saw a two hundred and twenty five billion dollar loss in productivity as a result of poor employee mental health.
#109 Modern Picnic: Surviving the Adpocalypse
- ▶ 9:11 Allie Kamenetsky If we're speaking households alone, safe to assume that every kitchen in the United States has a cabinet with food containers.
- ▶ 34:28 Christy Pitts Is TikTok going to be legal in the US?
#108 Qleek Pt. III: A Postmortem and a Comeback
- ▶ 6:21 Ismail Salhi We were about to launch a 200,000 dollar project with, uh, a major rapper in the US, and he wanted to use our technology to put them in their apparel, and then you could scan, basically,
- ▶ 9:08 Ismail Salhi And then once we fixed that, because we found some suppliers here in the US, well, guess what happened? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Ismail Salhi It's hard to find good bread in the US.
- ▶ 20:39 Ismail Salhi We want to become America's online bakery.
- ▶ 24:57 Ismail Salhi And so we started partnering with bakeries across the U.S., and now we have more than, I think, 15 bakeries, all artisanal, working with us.
#107 Terrascope: A Computer Vision Tale
- ▶ 9:29 unnamed speaker But, 20% of the U.S. real estate market is rural.
#104 Dressd: Red Carpet or Red Ocean?
- ▶ 3:02 Capri Wheaton There's three hundred thirty four billion dollars in assets sitting in women's closets across the U.S.
#102 Tether: Bodyguard of the Grid
- ▶ 10:37 Louis Medina So in the U S each grid has its own, its own laws and its own regulations of how you operate and in Europe as well.
- ▶ 12:04 Louis Medina We're gonna have one in Sweden, one in Barcelona, but we're certainly open to the United States. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:49 Charles Hudson I'd like to do 25 with one caveat, just around corporate structure, as Elizabeth knows, as a U.S. investor, when you have non-Delaware C-Corp companies, the end of year, basically I spend 90% of my time on my audit on the three companies… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:27 Neal Sales-Griffin You have to be a US-based company for my pre-seed fund called Rising Stars through Techstars.
- ▶ 20:43 Mac Conwell If you can make the argument that the EV cars actually support it, that actually makes the idea of having all the cars in the US more viable. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:18 Elizabeth Yin I'm not going to go into the details in the interest of time, but it's like a U S government. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:17 Louis Medina We can have the American investors. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:06 unnamed speaker We just had to put everything on the table, look at both scenarios, and also there was a lot of confusion in the U.S. side that related to, like, costs and, uh, how is it going to work and how do you do that? 4 times in the scene
#96 A Test of Time
- ▶ 7:11 Claire Coder 80 or 86% of tampon sales in Europe are non-applicator tampons, while only six percent of purchases for tampons in the United States are non-applicator.
#92 Who Did the PPP Actually Save?
- ▶ 5:26 Josh Muccio And then, in March, COVID-Nin forced salons and barbershops across the U.S. to close their doors, and Shearsha's revenues plummeted.
#90 How Startups Can Succeed in a Pandemic 2
- ▶ 16:29 Phil Nadel A lot of companies are finding that the Made in America message is resonating with customers, uh, in this time, and... 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:14 Sarah Downey It does also seem like a really good time for the Made in America message, and, like, plenty of people are stuck at home organizing their garages right now, so.
#97 Secret Sauce or Snake Oil?
- ▶ 2:55 Christopher Hussain In fact, I was actually the top loan originator in the U S for two straight years.
#89 A Big Bet on an Ex-Trucker
- ▶ 0:00 Josh Muccio Trucking was one of the very first industries in the U.S. to be upended by the COVID-nineteen pandemic.
- ▶ 16:35 Josh Muccio This particular founder immigrated to the U.S. at
How I Saved My Startup
- ▶ 20:49 Debbie Wei Mullin And it took him about, like, 24 hours for him to kind of, like, walk me through, like, what was about to happen to the U.S.
#88 How Startups Can Succeed in a Pandemic
- ▶ 11:27 unnamed speaker We realized that the delivery platforms, ah, in the US and in Mexico are struggling because,
#86 If the Suit Fits, Invest.
- ▶ 18:17 Sheel Mohnot And then when Uniqlo came to America, I was like, oh, this just fits me. 2 times in the scene
#85 Will Coronavirus Kill This Deal?
- ▶ 0:01 Josh Muccio Okay, so a few weeks back, the team and I were hard at work, doing what we do best, churning out new episodes of this show, when suddenly the coronavirus took hold in the U.S.
- ▶ 4:58 Ofo Ezeugwu At this point, we now have reviews in over 275 U.S. cities.
- ▶ 7:22 Ofo Ezeugwu Currently in the U.S. is just under fifty million residential units out there.
- ▶ 28:06 Josh Muccio Then, a few weeks later, Ofo forwarded me an email he received from Jillian in the wake of the coronavirus hitting the U.S., and she said in that email, and I quote, I'm going to pause on all investments at this time.
#84 The Napkin Pitch
- ▶ 22:57 Maya Bittner Americans' floors are dirty because they walk in and they've got dirt on the bottom of their shoes from outside, and so they've got all this dirt on their floors. 2 times in the scene
#83 Can Small Bras Be a Big Market?
- ▶ 12:01 Jacqueline Fu Yeah, we believe it to be a 5.1 billion dollar market, and the way we got to this is the total lingerie market in the U.S. is sixteen billion dollars, and around 32% of women fall in the BMI that would be applicable to us.
#81 Jillian to the Rescue
#79 The Anti-JUUL
- ▶ 0:36 Josh Muccio And with thirty two million Americans wanting to quit, the problem is searing hot.
- ▶ 9:18 Josh Muccio They may never get approval to sell in the U.S.
#77 Sell Online or Go Door to Door
- ▶ 1:57 Kate Flynn Did you know that three out of four women in the U.S. have an unhealthy relationship with food?
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