Lee Schneider
The Impact Pitch: How Tech Founders Tell Stories that Attract Capital
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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