#171 Doctours: VC Funded Hair Transplants?!

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Investing, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Medical tourism saved his brother's life. Now Girum wants to create a marketplace where every American can travel to find the care they need. Will the investors see his vision when his first market is... hair transplants? This is The Pitch for Doctours. Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Immad Akhund, Monique Woodard, and Rohit Gupta. ... Watch Girum’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 Doctours 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. I'm Josh Muccio.
0:06.4	And I'm Lisa Muccio. And on the show today, we have Doctor's, a marketplace for medical tourism, starting with hair transplants.
0:15.3	They're raising one million follicles. Dollars. Dollars. I love a marketplace.
0:21.9	You like marketplaces?
0:23.8	Yeah.
0:24.4	I mean, so the biggest tech companies are marketplaces.
0:27.5	I mean, yeah, but also they're really hard.
0:31.7	Lots of hard things are worth liking.
0:33.4	I hear a pitch for a marketplace, and I'm like, oh, scary.
0:37.0	Marketplaces are great.
0:38.1	Franchairs is a portfolio company.
0:40.0	Church space is a portfolio company.
0:42.4	I do all the check-in calls with the founders.
0:44.2	So this is why I'm more scared.
0:48.5	I'm just kidding.
0:49.5	They're doing fine.
0:50.3	I just know the struggles that a marketplace.
0:53.0	Anyway, so I love a good marketplace pitch. And this pitch today checks a lot of the boxes
0:59.3	that I look for. So I love Giram and I love the mission of doctor's, but I do have one
1:05.7	issue with this company. Do tell. Once you build out the hair transplant piece, how are you going to replicate that in a completely new industry?
1:16.0	How are you going to stimulate growth in a new industry?
1:18.0	Wow.
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