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The Feedback Loop
by Sherveen Mashayekhi
Every week, 10 startup founders get up on stage in front of a live audience in NYC and give the 1 minute version of their pitch to two venture investors. Then, they receive 5 minutes worth of feedback about their storytelling, pitch, and concept. It's not about an investment being made on the spot, but instead transforming the way a founder talks about their startup -- because the thing that can hold even the best of founders back? Their storytelling. Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi and Free Agency. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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The Future of Architecture? Startup Founder Pitches!
One founder gets 60 seconds to pitch two venture capitalists – and you watch them pick the idea apart, live. Welcome to Episode 078 of The Feedback Loop – the show where startup founders road-test their pitch in front of real investors, and the rest of us learn what actually moves the needle in a...
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"Do you have a real edge?" | 60 Seconds to Pitch
One brave founder has just 60 seconds to pitch two venture investors – and you get to see what happens next. Welcome to Episode 077 of The Feedback Loop: a show designed to help startup founders refine their pitch, product, and go‑to‑market strategy by receiving on‑the‑spot critiques from real…
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World's First Smart Caffeine App? VCs React!
He’s got 60 seconds to pitch 2 venture investors – and he wants to track the amount of coffee you drink every day to help you sleep! It’s Episode 076 of The Feedback Loop, featuring founder Maxwell (Max) Luz building Stym AI. It's an AI-powered, camera-first “smart caffeine” app that wants to…
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She's Got 60 Seconds to Pitch | AI Copilot for First-time Homebuyers
She has 60 seconds to pitch 2 venture capitalists! Then, she gets their UNFILTERED feedback on her startup and her concept. It's time for Episode 075 of The Feedback Loop, and we've got founder Neha Panwar building BuyerSidee. It's an AI-driven copilot for first-time homebuyers, determined to...
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An AI-First Mortgage Startup?
One startup founder has 60 seconds to pitch to two venture investors! And today, we’ve got a founder aiming to modernize a $2.3 trillion industry – mortgage lending. It's Episode 074 of The Feedback Loop, featuring Suketu Gaglani building Mira Labs! It's an AI co-pilot that wants to transform the...
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What if AI could HAGGLE for you?
This startup founder wants AI to negotiate for you – whether you're buying jewelry or while you're making other high-dollar, high-stakes purchases. It’s Episode 073 of The Feedback Loop, and it's Ifeanyi Osuji pitching the future of AI driven buying. Ifeanyi's vision is an AI negotiation platform...
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500 Fertility Clinics in US Serving 350M People!?
One startup founder has 60 seconds to pitch to two venture investors! And today, we’ve got a founder tackling a critical – yet often overlooked – health challenge: fertility care. It’s Episode 072 of The Feedback Loop, and it’s Josh pitching his vision for an all‑in‑one operating system that…
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Yet Another AI Voice Agent?
1 startup founder has 60 seconds to pitch to 2 venture investors! And today, we've got a startup founder who has been in real estate for most of his career tackling an age-old problem in for brokers in his industry: wasted leads. It's Episode 071 of The Feedback Loop, and it's Gregory Maro…
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He Has 60 Seconds to Pitch – Are These 2 Investors Into It?
Otto wants to build an AI platform to shake up the legacy industry of legal research. Can he get busy attorneys and legal services companies – reliant on familiar tools and workflows –- to switch over to his product? On Episode 070 of The Feedback Loop, that's what we get into! Otto von Zastrow…
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Multiplayer Journaling & an AI CFO for Restaurants, ft. Ihar of Geek Ventures
In Episode 069 of The Feedback Loop, we meet two bold founders pitching live: one harnessing real‑time wearable data to optimize your daily schedule, the other building a finance platform to help restaurant owners avoid costly losses. First Pitch: Lifestack – AI‑Powered Productivity Founder Nao...
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2 Startups on Time: AI for Timesheets, Wearables-based Scheduling
In Episode 068 of The Feedback Loop, we encounter two ambitious founders rethinking productivity – one aiming to free lawyers and consultants from the drudgery of manual timesheets, the other harnessing real‑time health data to optimize daily schedules. First, we meet Joseph Frantz from…
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2 Startups: Social Network for Old People & Scheduling Platform for Parents
In Episode 067 of The Feedback Loop, we meet two determined startup founders pitching live – one tackling the loneliness epidemic among seniors, the other streamlining the chaos of youth sports scheduling for busy families. First, we hear from Fernando Dellepiane, co-founder of Vermut, who’s...
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Split Your Home v Your Land, & Another AI Marketing Startup?
In Episode 066 of The Feedback Loop, we meet two ambitious startup founders pitching live – one shaking up real estate affordability, the other tackling the crowded AI marketing landscape. First, Stuart Allan from Cedar introduces an innovative solution: splitting home ownership into house and...
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2 founders building for themselves first
What happens when you build a startup targeted at... yourself? On today's episode of The Feedback Loop, two founders built their business to fix issues in their own industry. First, a longtime NYC nanny reimagines the family-caregiver dynamic – building a platform that prioritizes both sides for...
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AI-Enabled Meditation & B2B Data Management
How do startup investors really evaluate founders and their pitches? What's truly required to raise a seed round or a Series A? On this episode of The Feedback Loop, we hear from 2 startup founders building the future and from 2 venture investors offering them feedback on their concept and...
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An Engineer Turned Investor REACTS to 2 Startups
2 startup founders pitch, 2 venture investors give them unfiltered feedback on their concept and storytelling – live, candid, and unfiltered! Today, we hear from one founder aiming to revolutionize chronic care management with an AI-powered health companion, and another founder tackling the FDA...
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The Intern Is.. The Co-Founder? 2 Startups, 2 Investors!
What happens when a startup founder is pitching a business he joined 6 months ago, but was really started 11 years ago? Well, let's find out! 2 startup founders pitch, 2 venture investors give them unfiltered feedback on their concept and storytelling – live, candid, and unfiltered! In Episode…
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He's Been Investing for 25 Years - VC reacts to 2 startup founders!
One founder wants you to have better parties and another wants you to use AI to find your best prospects. And both of them get unfiltered, critical feedback on their concept and their storytelling. Because giving early stage startup founders feedback on their pitch is what The Feedback Loop is…
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John Frankel (ffVC) returns to judge startups!
2 startup founders pitch, 2 venture investors give them unfiltered feedback on their concept and storytelling – live, candid, and unfiltered! In Episode 060, two big-picture founders tackle a personal carbon offset platform (aimed at everyday gas fill-ups) and a social network for gamers looking…
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AI DevOps & a local beauty marketplace
2 startup founders pitch, 2 venture investors give them unfiltered feedback on their concept and storytelling – live, candid, and unfiltered! In Episode 059, two ambitious entrepreneurs tackle AI-enabled DevOps automation and a SaaS-marketplace combo for local beauty services. It’s time for…
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Synthetic AI Societies and Femtech Targeting PMDD!
2 startup founders pitch, 2 venture investors give them unfiltered feedback on their concept and storytelling – live, candid, and unfiltered! In Episode 058, two ambitious entrepreneurs tackle dramatically different domains: AI-enabled, synthetic market research and a female healthtech startup...
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Earbuds That Track Your Focus? | 2 Founders Pitch!
Welcome back to The Feedback Loop, where founders pitch early-stage startups to real investors, getting unfiltered feedback and practical advice on how to sharpen their story. In this episode, we’re hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi (Founder & CEO of Free Agency) and guest investor Mirit Lugassi from...
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Hyper-local community news and unlimited beauty services
Welcome back to The Feedback Loop, where founders share bold ideas with real investors – receiving unfiltered, in-the-room feedback to help them refine their pitch, product, and story. In Episode 056, two founders tackle hyper-local community news and a subscription platform for unlimited beauty...
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AI for Fashion and "Duolingo for Sales"
Welcome back to The Feedback Loop, where founders take the stage, pitch their startups, and receive raw, no-nonsense feedback from real venture investors. In Episode 055, we hear from two ambitious founders pushing the boundaries of AI-driven style recommendations and AI-driven conversational…
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3 Founders, 1 Minute Each, VC Feedback LIVE
Welcome back to The Feedback Loop, where ambitious founders step on stage, pitch their startups, and receive honest, constructive insights from real venture investors. In Episode 054, we hear from three founders tackling media & entertainment AI, a concierge furniture e-commerce play, and a Web3...
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Hinge-Meets-Yelp and AI Benchmarks | Ep. 053
Welcome back to The Feedback Loop, where we feature bold founders pitching their startup ideas to real venture investors – live, candid, and unfiltered. In Episode 053, we’re joined by guest investor Leeor Mushin of Formation, a pre-seed and seed stage venture fund laser-focused on helping…
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2 Startup Founders Pitch + Get Unfiltered VC Feedback
AI for RFP Automation? Local language models for SaaS? Corporate sustainability and B Corp certification? We’ve got all that — and more... Welcome to Episode 052 of The Feedback Loop — where early-stage founders get direct, no-nonsense feedback from real venture investors! In this episode, two...
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2 Startup Founders Have 1 Minute to Pitch (Live Feedback!)
Welcome back to the ultimate startup stage — where ambitious founders pitch their bold visions and receive unfiltered, transformative feedback from real venture investors. In Episode 051 of The Feedback Loop, we dive into two radically technical yet incredibly compelling pitches that push the...
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How does Flybridge judge your startup!?
Welcome back to the ultimate startup stage, where early-stage founders score direct, constructive feedback from real venture investors. In this episode, we've got AI-driven short-form video creation and a platform to catch early signs of dementia, all in the spotlight. Each founder gets one…
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2 Startup Founders Pitch Their Vision, 1 VC Investor REACTS
2 founders step into the spotlight to pitch solutions for wildly different industries – then get raw feedback from an expert investor. Welcome to Episode 049 of The Feedback Loop! Every week, early-stage founders step into the hot seat to present their big ideas – from AI-powered order management...
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2 AI Startups, 1 Skeptical Investor
2 startup founders have 1 minute to pitch! Then, they get feedback – from an expert investor who is a venture-backed founder himself. Welcome to Episode 048 of The Feedback Loop! Every week, early stage founders step into the hot seat to present their big ideas – from AI-powered tools, consumer...
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How Investors REALLY Judge Your Startup (Live Pitch Feedback!)
3 startup founders have 1 minute to pitch! Then, they get feedback – from an expert investor who is a venture-backed founder himself. Welcome to Episode 047 of The Feedback Loop! Every week, early stage founders step into the hot seat to present their big ideas – from AI-powered accessibility…
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Ep. 46: He's sold 3 startups, how does he invest?
Welcome to the ultimate startup stage, where early stage founders get discrete and constructive feedback from real venture investors. And today, we'll hear ideas across AI, developer tools, and neurodiversity edtech. Each founder gets one to pitch. Then, they get feedback from two venture...
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Ep. 45: Spacetech, proptech, selfie tech
Welcome to the ultimate startup stage, where early founders step into the hot seat and present their big ideas – from revolutionary space manufacturing infrastructure to next-gen property management SaaS. And after they've had their minute to pitch, they get feedback from two check-writing...
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Ep. 44: 3 Founders Get Brutal Reactions
Watch three ambitious AI startup founders pitch their visions for the future to two venture capitalists in the latest episode of The Feedback Loop! From AI-powered academic research analysis to an artificial intelligence real estate agent with a human name, these founders are pushing the…
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Ep. 43: Investors react to 3 startup pitches!
What makes a great startup pitch? It's complicated! It depends on your stage, your market, and the main obstacle in your way – sometimes, you need to answer "why does this matter at all," and other times, that's obvious, & so the question becomes "but how will you win?" So much of it is context…
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Ep. 042: Fact-check Apartments, AI SDR, Loneliness-Solving App
Startups at their earliest stage are still figuring things out -- their pitch, their go-to-market, their monetization, their landing page copy... Underrated as part of that journey is getting as much feedback and data as possible, which is why it's exciting to have 3 very early stage founders...
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Ep. 041: AI Coach, Immigration Copilot, All-in-One CRM
Joining the tank this week: Rachel ten Brink is a venture investor and GP at Red Bike Capital. She was previously co-founder and CMO/CRO at Scentbird, a YC-backed startup where she led growth during the company's scale to $150M+ in revenue. So, how does a founder turned startup investor think…
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Ep. 40: VCs Bicker Over Startup Feedback
Startups age in dog years. Startups at the idea stage look and feel very different just 3 or 6 months later. And so too do the dynamics of how VCs think about those startups. Are they investing in a founder, a vision, traction, early evidence, or an engine of experiments? On Episode 040 of The...
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Ep. 39: How VCs REALLY Judge Your Startup
How do venture capitalists REALLY think through a startup pitch? Well, today is Episode 039 of you getting to find out, as we get to hear pitches from 3 startup founders and see 2 investors react in real-time. If you're interested in startups and founders building the future, and the venture...
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Ep. 38: Feedback given, but not received.
3 ambitious startup founders take the stage to pitch their concepts to two venture capitalists! On Episode 038, these investors are ready to evaluate, ask questions, and offer unfiltered feedback – the sort of feedback that can help any entrepreneur tell a compelling story and win multi-million...
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Ep. 37: SEO for LLMs, AI Compliance, & Support for At-Risk
On Episode 037 of The Feedback Loop, we hear from founders building in: support platform for people in crisis, SEO for LLMs, and an AI-driven workflow for product compliance. Timestamps: 00:00 Hello! 06:59 Support platform for people in crisis (Samaritan) 12:16 AI-generated meditation (Exhale AI)...
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Ep. 36: 3 Startups Pitch, 2 Investors Bicker
On Episode 036 of The Feedback Loop, we hear from founders building in: industrial automation, AI for meditation, and end-to-end encrypted AI! As always, hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi, Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Today's guest investor, returning to the show for the fourth time, was Mike Ma of...
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Ep. 35: Male fertility, AI for marketing, and enterprise data AI
Ready for Episode 035 of The Feedback Loop!? Three startup founders get up on stage to talk about: an AI toolkit for marketing operations, a clinician-enabled at-home fertility testing kit for men, and an AI-enabled knowledge management system for the enterprise. Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome and...
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Ep. 34: Startup Pitch Gone WILD
It's time for Episode 034 of The Feedback Loop! And this one gets intense. We go from talking about a fintech platform focused on retail loyalty programs to predictive AI for medical billing to the concept of investing in high-value influencers... all the way to a debate about whether our phones...
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Ep. 033: AI for PMs, Construction, Wealth Mgmt...
It's time for Episode 033 of The Feedback Loop! We hear from founders building: an AI copilot for product managers, an AI platform for wealth management firms, Duolingo for entrepreneurs, and an AI-enabled construction project management platform. As always, hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi, Founder…
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Ep. 32: 4 Founders Get Pitch Feedback
On Episode 032 of The Feedback Loop! We hear from founders building: a marketplace for market research, a new way for you to get your veggies every day, a platform for Internet radio and micro-communities, and a zero-waste, non-toxic cleaning products brand. As always, hosted by Sherveen...
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Ep. 31: Founders & Investors Get Heated
On Episode 031 of The Feedback Loop! We hear from founders building: a social workout app, a medical supply chain SaaS company, a private credit marketplace, and an Augmented Reality art + furniture marketplace. As always, hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi, Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Today's…
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Ep. 30: Wearables, college, AI for BI
On Episode 030 of The Feedback Loop! We hear from founders building: AI-driven enterprise marketing for impact, a wearable for tracking your stress and emotions, an AI-driven platform for business intelligence insights, and a marketplace for college admissions mentorship and guidance. As always,...
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Ep. 29: AI copilots, APIs, and package delivery protection
On Episode 029 of The Feedback Loop! We hear from founders building: an AI-driven API platform, an AI copilot for product marketing managers, and a package delivery protection product. As always, hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi, Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Today's guest investor is Jesse...
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Every week, 10 startup founders get up on stage in front of a live audience in NYC and give the 1 minute version of their pitch to two venture investors. Then, they receive 5 minutes worth of feedback about their storytelling, pitch, and concept. It's not about an investment being made on the spot, but instead transforming the way a founder talks about their startup -- because the thing that can hold even the best of founders back? Their storytelling. Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi and Free Agency.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Every week, 10 startup founders get up on stage in front of a live audience in NYC and give the 1 minute version of their pitch to two venture investors. Then, they receive 5 minutes worth of feedback about their storytelling, pitch, and concept. It's not about an investment being made on the spot,...
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