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The Best Freaking Pitch Event Part II is set for October 24th! Four cutting-edge startups, three fresh from Y Combinator and one already backed by a top VC will go head to head in a high stakes, Shark Tank-style showdown to a panel of VCs. It’s a fully virtual event designed for accredited investors seeking their next big opportunity. Plus, unaccredited investors can dive into these startups via WeFunder. RSVP above to secure your access to these exciting pitches and discover the latest in startup innovation!

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👋 Meet our Participants

Pirouette: Reimagining life-saving injections for the $750B market. Led by rocket scientists and top engineering minds from MIT, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Clarkson University, NASA, and General Electric, what more do you want in a founding team?

Jupiter: Instacart in a box for 200k+ food & recipe creators. Jupiter is a creator-first recipe and grocery shopping platform founded out of Stanford. Creators host stores where they share and monetize recipe content, maximize brand partnerships and build community among millions of users with high buying intent.

Health Care Originals: AI-powered respiratory care for asthma & COPD patients - an $83B market. Backed by leading venture funds Safar Partners and Chloe Capital, and with proven product-market fit, HCO’s patented non-invasive solution is ready to revolutionize the $83B respiratory care market.

AptDeco: Resale-as-a-service platform for the $58B furniture market. AptDeco offers pickup, assembly, delivery, payment, scheduling and logistics, all carried out by a highly-trained Delivery Team. AptDeco carries pre-loved home furnishings at up to 70% savings from a range of top brands, including West Elm, Jonathan Adler, Pottery Barn, World Market and many more

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🎮 Replay our Last Event

We had these 4 gamechangers pitch last week. Check out the event page to connect with the founders and watch their pitch.

Overplay: Make videos into games instantly -- no code necessary! Featured in Sharktank’s latest season and secure investment from Mark Cuban. Unaccredited Investors can participate through their WeFunder Campaign.

AvatarOS: The best avatar generation technology in the world. Backed by a16z Speedrun and entering the HFO residency.

GameTree: Easily discover new games to play and coordinate gameplay sessions with people who share your interests. Backed by ExpertDojo. Community meets gaming; find your squad.

Kub Technology: Simplifying Game Development with Unified SDK Integration powered by AI. This founder has over 10 years of industry experience and couldn’t stand turning away more deals, so he created KUBs.

🗣️ Founder Support Requests

Reply here if you can help.

📞 “It would be great if you know anyone with a small or medium business that either misses out on calls and therefore revenue because they don't have a receptionist, don't have an after hours receptionist, or have other administrative tasks in their office that could be automated, we'd love to talk to them and see if we can help. We're building software (mostly AI) tools to increase the quality of intake and to streamline administrative processes, with the first being our AI powered receptionist.”

💳 “We are raising a $1 million seed round to accelerate the growth of Payaway, our embedded lending platform. This funding will enable us to enhance our technology, strengthen compliance and security, drive merchant and lender acquisition, expand our team, and cover key operational costs. You can find a one-pager introducing Payaway HERE and the complete Payaway deck HERE."

🎮 “One of Expert DOJO's preferred Web3 portcos, M80, is currently raising to launch their commercial partner token alongside their equity. We are particularly bullish on M80 due to the following key drivers to their story and this is precisely why we have invested $2m YTD. The equity comes at a 15M Valuation and a token warrant at 10M FDV for this round. Here is the Deck and the Tokenomics.

*Closed key partnerships with Coinbase, Exodus, and Portal.
*M80 is currently the fastest-growing esports team founded just over a year ago with 14M+ social followers.
*Funded by Portal, Expert Dojo, Daniel Medvedev, Alumni ventures, and VT ventures.
* $2.2 Million in revenue for 2023. On track to hit $5.5 Million in 2024. Targeting $10 Million in 2025.”

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