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The Pitch

#177 Aleoop: Show Me The Sales!

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Technology, Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After losing a huge sale due to product gaps, Meghan Scanlon left Stripe to start Aleoop, an AI that helps product and sales teams close more deals. But will she be able to close the investors with no sales herself? This is The Pitch for Aleoop. Featuring investors Elizabeth Yin, Jesse Middleton, Laura Lucas, and Mike Ma. Watch Meghan’s pitch uncut on Patreon (@ThePitch) Join us for the Season 16 taping in Tampa Subscribe to our email newsletter: insider.pitch.show Learn more about The Pitch Fund: thepitch.fund *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in Aleoop 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

0:05.6

Muccio. And I'm Lisa Muccio. And on the show today, we have Megan with Alleyoop. She's raising

0:10.7

$1 million. All right. Let's roll play. Okay. Who do you want to be? Do you want to be sales or product?

0:17.2

Oh my gosh. Okay. I'll be product. I'm sales. Okay. Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah.

0:24.2

We're building a company. Company name is Wangadoodle and we are building an AI fountain pen.

0:30.3

This is my dream. This AI fountain pen basically reads the dock for you and red lines it and then signs it for

0:37.1

you through osmosis because you're

0:38.7

just holding this pen. That's awesome. I've been talking to customers and they really, really

0:42.9

love that feature, but they also want it to sign the documents on their computer. Oh, no, I don't

0:49.9

think that's a need. No. And then they really, really want like every signature to be on the

0:54.9

blockchain. And they're telling me they will pay millions for the blockchain feature.

1:00.1

I don't think so, because really what I see is that Gen Z and millennials are really back into

1:04.5

this like kind of retro time period where they want things that they can touch and feel, like paper,

1:10.8

pen.

1:11.4

You're not wrong, but I'm talking to the customers. I'm in sales.

1:14.0

I know, but this is my dream is to build this company that uses paper and pen.

1:19.6

If only there was a way to resolve this dispute.

1:22.0

Only. But wait.

1:24.8

There's Al-Upe.

1:26.1

Megan Scanlan is building Al-Upe, which brings data into the picture so that sales and product can make informed decisions on the product roadmap and stop fighting.

1:35.9

Wangadoodle to the moon.

1:38.9

The pitch for Al-Upe is coming up after this.

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