#167 Levee: Cleaning Up Hotels' Dirty Secret

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Investing, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Knock, knock! AI wants to inspect your room. Al Lagunas grew up watching his mom clean hotel rooms. Now he’s building Levee, an AI-powered app to make her job easier—and keep the staff from getting yelled at. But with just one hotel customer and a $10M+ valuation, will the investors check in… or check out? This is The Pitch for Levee. Featuring investors ⁠Paige Finn Doherty⁠,⁠ Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Jesse Middleton and Jenny Fielding. ... Watch Al’s pitch on YouTube (@thepitchshow) and Patreon (@ThePitch) Subscribe to our public email newsletter: insider.thepitch.show Join our private investor community on Substack: thepitch.fund *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in Levee is being made to or solicited from the listening audience on today’s show. The information provided on this show is not intended to be investment advice and should not be relied upon as such. The investors on today’s episode are providing their opinions based on their own assessment of the business presented. Those opinions should not be considered professional investment advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Al Lagunas. I'm from Chicago, Illinois. I've considered myself a hustler first and a tech founder's second. I started this company because I think the most overlooked workforce are people who don't sit at a computer all day, those being frontline workers.
0:17.4	I'm Josh Muchio, and this is the pitch, where startup founders raise millions and listeners
0:22.0	can invest. Today on the show, Al Lagunas pitches his app for frontline hotel workers to five
0:29.8	frontline VCs. Just kidding, there's no such thing as a frontline VC, but there has been a frontline
0:36.6	Al. My very first job was working at a bar.
0:40.6	I would work roofing jobs over the summer.
0:42.9	I worked at a restaurant as a host, as a server.
0:46.1	If anyone's going to build this, if anyone understands a frontline worker,
0:48.7	how to actually build tools for them, it's going to be me, it's going to be our team.
0:54.1	The pitch for Levy is coming up after this.
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