#169 Mappa: Can Voice AI Find You a Job… or a Date?

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Investing, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Lucena built Mappa to decode the hidden signals in your voice—revealing who you are and where you belong. From jobs to relationships, she believes your voice holds the key to every connection. Will the investors back this bold Brazilian founder or are they not the right match for her? This is The Pitch for Mappa. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Immad Akhund, Monique Woodard, and Rohit Gupta. ... Watch Sarah’s pitch uncut on Patreon (@ThePitch) Subscribe to our email newsletter: insider.pitch.show Learn more about The Pitch Fund: thepitch.fund RSVP for one of our LP meetups: pitch.show/events *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in Mappa 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	Welcome to the pitch where startup founders raise millions and listeners can invest.
0:05.2	I'm Josh Muccio.
0:06.8	And I'm Lisa Muccio.
0:08.1	And this is one of my favorite pitches of all time.
0:11.1	What?
0:12.2	Yeah.
0:12.9	We've spoken to hundreds of founders.
0:15.9	And there was just something special about the founder on today's episode, Sarah.
0:20.5	The company is called MAPA. They're raising a $1.6 million dollars. There was just something special about the founder on today's episode, Sarah.
0:21.0	The company is called MAPA.
0:23.2	They're raising a $1.6 million seed round.
0:26.1	MAPA analyzes the sound of your voice,
0:28.3	the pitch, the tone, the words you use.
0:30.9	All of those communicate something about who you are as a human.
0:34.7	MAPA decodes all of that to help companies
0:37.3	hire people that are a better culture fit.
0:40.0	There's not many pitches where a founder checks every single box you're looking for,
0:44.2	but it was such a good deal that we actually wrote the check before inviting her on the show.
0:51.7	And we chose not to tell the investors
0:55.5	because I wanted their honest reactions,
0:57.5	not knowing that we've already bet on this company.
1:01.1	So I was so nervous going into it
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