#127 Nectir: The Classroom of the Future

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Investing, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Kavitta Ghai struggled in school due to autism and ADHD until a positive experience with a college professor transformed her academic journey. Convinced this was the future, she launched a startup to make classrooms more accessible. Now, she just needs a VC to lead her $3 million seed round. Will Kavitta pass the test with the investors in The Pitch Room? Featuring investors Cyan Banister, Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, Mac Conwell and Paige Finn Doherty. ... To invest with the VCs on The Pitch, join our investor community at thepitch.fund Founders can apply to pitch at our next recording event in San Francisco this June. No intro required, just go to pitch.show/apply Superfans can join The Pitch UNCUT and get early access to unedited versions of all ten pitches on season 11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Day 3 pitch 5.
0:02.0	Everything we've been working on for the last nine years at the pitch has led up to this moment.
0:10.0	Season 11.
0:12.0	I'm so excited about this season. Everything just clicked. The
0:18.0	VC's money. The founders? Also money. The live audience,
0:24.0	audience, game changer.
0:26.0	See, he thought I was going to say money, didn't you?
0:29.0	Our season starts today with a founder who's experienced firsthand that the classroom of today
0:35.2	doesn't work for everyone. So Kavita Guy is building a better one, the classroom
0:42.1	of the future. But the odds are not in her favor and she
0:47.0	knows it.
0:48.0	Kavita is raising in one of the toughest fundraising markets in over a decade, and her startup is in a category a lot of
0:56.2	VCs really don't like. I tend to hate Ed Tech like with a burning passion.
1:03.0	Yep.
1:04.0	But despite the odds, Kavita chose to risk it all and come to Miami to pitch five VCs in front
1:11.0	of a live audience. I'm Josh Muchio. Welcome to the pitch.
1:15.4	Where real founders pitch to real investors for real money. Let's meet the
1:20.7	investors.
1:21.7	Matt Conwell with Rare Breed Ventures.
1:25.0	As a unicorn hunter, I want to see every unicorn.
1:28.0	Charles Hudson with Precursor Ventures.
1:30.0	I wish that had been reopened.
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