4 Startups, 1 Minute to Pitch | Unfiltered Feedback! | The Feedback Loop, Ep. 023

THIS WEEK! Plant-to-hotel matching, AI relationship coach, payments for the smallest online transactions, and a new loyalty platform for brands. They have 1 minute to tell their story, then they get UNFILTERED feedback from two check-writing venture capitalists.

Because the thing that can hold even the best founders back from reaching their ambition? Their pitch. Whether a startup founder is raising money, recruiting a team, or selling their product, it's the pitch at the start of any given conversation that starts them on a journey to success.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome and intros
01:32 - Investor Intro: Marty Ringlein
06:55 - AI dating coach (Luv Actually)
18:17 - Startups buying expensive domain names
21:18 - Plant-to-hotel matchmaking (Plantmatch)
36:07 - Micropayments infra fintech (Micro)
51:31 - Experiential consumer loyalty (GLASS)
1:00:53 - Takeaways & bye!

As always, hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi, Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Follow him on X at @Sherveen.

​Today's guest investor is Marty Ringlein. On the venture capital side, he's a GP at Adventure Fund, which has invested in early to growth stage companies like Figma, Chime, Plaid, SpaceX, Beehiiv, and SwagUp, to name a few. As a founder, Marty has started and served as CEO at three startups acquired by Twitter, WPP, and Eventbrite, respectively.

Now, he's on his latest upstart journey as Co-founder & CEO of Agree.com, an e-signature and payments platform. In other words, the man knows both how to recognize and craft an excellent startup pitch. There are few resumes in tech as dense as this one. Follow him on X at @martymadrid.

To attend The Feedback Loop in-person or apply to pitch as a founder, head to afterfeedback.com.

Thank you to all of the brave founders who participated in this episode. The Feedback Loop is dedicated to creating an engine of support for startup founders attempting to change the way the earth spins. We're on your side.