THE IMPACT PITCH supports the founder/funder ecosystem by connecting startups, funders, and incubators who all have the common goal of creating social impact companies that thrive. It shines a light on startups that are in their early-stage funding rounds or that are underrepresented. Scientists and tech founders sometimes struggle to translate their technical innovations into compelling business narratives. In the Impact Pitch, you’ll hear from a founder, an investor, or sometimes both, about how they worked to shape their pitch, the challenges, the reboots, and the successes as well. Each episode will include a lessons-learned teardown of the startups discussed, and will offer feedback on what worked with the pitch and what didn’t. The podcast features three different categories of guest. We feature tech founders, often scientists or academics, making the transition into entrepreneurship. They can be in their early-stage funding round. We showcase investors, both angels and VCs, who focus on impact investing to address the world’s most challenging problems. We feature impact incubators who offer support and education to impact-focused tech founders. The podcast is hosted and produced by Lee Schneider, a veteran storyteller for hire for film and TV, novelist, and author of The Angel Playbook. He is an adjunct assistant professor teaching a popular media-making and storytelling class for USC’s School of Architecture, and he is the facilitator of the Storyline Sessions, a series of masterclasses for startup founders who want to improve their storytelling skills to win more funding.
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Kelly O’Connell and Fernanda Carapinha: Building Infrastructure for Founder Success
Jun 23, 202639 minS0
<p>In this episode of THE IMPACT PITCH, Lee Schneider interviews a VC, Kelly O’Connell, managing partner of the 360 Venture Collective, and a founder, Fernanda Carapinha, founder and CEO of WE Intelligence and creator of Founderverse®</p><p>Why do 90% of startups fail? Not because founders can't succeed-but because they lack the intelligence, systems, and infrastructure to scale effectively.</p><p>Fernanda Carapinha believes that the 90% startup failure rate is not evidence that most entrepreneurs can't succeed. Rather, it's evidence that most founders are building without the intelligence, systems, and infrastructure needed to scale effectively.</p><p>Drawing from a u...
La Keisha Landrum Pierre: What Does it Take to Pitch an Impact Startup?
Jun 1, 202613 minS0
<p>What does it take to pitch an impact startup? Host Lee Schneider sits down with La Keisha Landrum Pierre, General Partner and Co-Founder of Emmeline Ventures. She is a venture capital investor who reviews over a thousand pitches a year. In their conversation, they break down exactly what separates the founders who raise capital from those who don’t.</p><p>La Keisha explains why clarity, structure, and the classic “tell them what you’ll tell them” approach still hold up, and why a compelling headline matters.</p><p>The conversation gets specific about why charisma is never enough by itsel...
<p>This episode is a look into the early-stage funding journey of Michelle Turner and her virtual healthcare startup, Here Now Health. The company serves kids in foster care through Medicaid-covered mental health services. The episode features two interviews. The first is with founder Michelle Turner about how she pitched and closed her pre-seed round. The second interview is with her investor Pocket Sun, co-founder and Managing Partner of SoGal Ventures, who shares the investor perspective on what attracted her to the deal and the realities of securing venture capital.</p><p></p>(00:00) - Episode Intro
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