Season 14: What VCs Really Want

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Investing, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Unicorns. Weird things. Founders who'll blow through brick walls. The best in venture tell us exactly what they want to invest in. Season 14 starts Oct 8. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What are you hoping for today in the founders?
0:03.0	Scrappy traction-oriented grinders and hustlers who will blow through every brick wall in this building to get to where they need to be.
0:11.0	Welcome to the pitch, season 14, where startup founders raise millions and listeners can invest.
0:18.0	And you, the listeners, have invested in 37 companies so far via the Pitch Fund.
0:24.4	This season, we're closing out Fund One with some of the best in venture helping us vet founders
0:30.0	live on the show.
0:31.3	I'm looking for a founder that excites me. Really deep subject manner experts. And I like
0:35.9	weird things. I want people like passion fuel.
0:39.0	I am so sick of people that are building stuff for building stuff's sake.
0:43.1	Real hit.
0:43.7	What are you hoping to find?
0:45.0	A unicorn?
0:47.4	How will you know it?
0:48.6	It's just the person in that chair, if they're legit, then they got a shot.
0:52.3	On this season of the show, 10 VCs, seven startups,
0:56.3	with one shot to build the company of their dreams.
0:59.4	Oh my God, we built the entirely wrong product.
1:02.2	Two shots to build the company of their dreams.
1:05.0	With that intro, let's go.
1:06.5	What companies do we have this season?
1:08.5	Let's see.
1:09.4	We've got voice AI, bagels, smart inhalers, AI government, a QuickBooks Killer,
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