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Parents are always looking to give their kids a leg up and today's founder has a message for them.

Zero to three is the most critical time of a child's development.

So 85% of the brain is formed by three and it's

literally the foundation for all future learning and development.

Zara Kossam is here to raise three million dollars for her startup, Monty Kids. It's a subscription box of toys.

Toys that she says are meant to help children get a head start on their education.

And Zara wants to take it worldwide. She's been making

the rounds and recently pitched her company on Shark Tank. We'll talk to her

about that later. But the question in the pitchroom today is will enough parents really buy into a pre-school education

to make this a billion dollar business? I'm Josh Muccio and from Gimlet this is the pitch. Today's investors are Alexandra Stanton.

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