Startup Pitches! LAUNCH Accelerator Demo Day | E1902
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason joins seven strong startup pitches from LAUNCH Accelerator.(1:11) Jacqui kicks off the demo day.(1:40) Introductions to the guest jugdes.(4:40) Justin pitches Melengo(10:18) Gusto - Get three months free when you run your first payroll at http://www.gusto.com/twist
(11:32) Edward ptiches PodcastAI(18:09) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://www.linkedin.com/twist(19:04) Daniel pitches Tolt(24:55) Rae pitches River(27:49) Northwest Registered Agent - Get a 60% discount on your next LLC at - http://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/twist(34:01) Kash pitches TaxGPT(40:56) George pitches Fanfare(46:31) Jam pitches Monic.ai(52:05) Our panel of judges pick their top three pitches.
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Daniel Gjokaj & Tolt
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Rae Lambert & River
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Kashif Ali & TaxGPT
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George Lam & Fanfarehttps://fanfare.app/
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george@fanfare.app Jam Mirzakhalov & Monic.ai
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirzakhalov/
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Thank you to our judges:
Ben Narasin - Tenacity Venture Capital
Blaine Davis - Outlander
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Minnie Ingersoll - TenOneTen
Nicole Seah - Costanoa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-seah1/
Stella Zhang - Conductive Ventures
https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinxin-stella-zhang/
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| 0:00.0 | This is the greatest class we've ever had. |
| 0:03.0 | These startups have product velocity, great product design, |
| 0:06.8 | multiple founders, multiple builders on the founding team, |
| 0:10.4 | i.e. a developer, UX designer, and a growth hacker. Those are the three builders in our world. |
| 0:15.8 | And what you will find is teams with product velocity and who are really obsessed with customers. |
| 0:20.7 | So they have three minutes to pitch and they give tight answers. No |
| 0:24.4 | filibustering. That's what I train the founders to do is to listen to the |
| 0:27.2 | investor questions and actually answer them. Let's get started. |
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| 1:11.0 | Welcome everyone to the Public demo day for Launch Accelerator |
| 1:15.3 | cohort 30. |
| 1:16.7 | So excited to have everyone join us today to meet these seven |
| 1:20.0 | amazing founders and show off with their building. It's been an absolute honor and pleasure to work with them |
| 1:25.1 | for these past few months and can't wait to see what's yet to come. |
| 1:28.3 | For those of you who knew to this format, |
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