#158 Avelo: The World’s First Smart Running Shoe

The Pitch

Josh Muccio

Investing, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Royi Metser’s smart running shoe promises fewer injuries—but are runners ready to subscribe to their shoes? This is The Pitch for Avelo. Featuring investors Charles Hudson, Elizabeth Yin, and two new investors to the show, Ben Zises and Kate McAndrew. ... Watch Royi’s pitch on YouTube (@thepitchshow) and Patreon (@ThePitch) Subscribe to our public email newsletter: insider.thepitch.show Join our private investor community on Substack: thepitch.fund Register for the Season 13 Finale Watch Party: pitch.show/party *Disclaimer: No offer to invest in Avelo is being made to or solicited from the listening audience on today’s show. The information provided on this show is not intended to be investment advice and should not be relied upon as such. The investors on today’s episode are providing their opinions based on their own assessment of the business presented. Those opinions should not be considered professional investment advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name's Rowie Metzer, and I live in Miami, Florida.
0:05.2	Who am I?
0:06.9	A husband recently.
0:10.5	I'm an entrepreneur.
0:12.6	I'm a runner.
0:14.4	I'm Josh Muchio, and this is the pitch, where startup founders raise millions and listeners can invest.
0:21.4	Today on the show, Rowie Mezzar is here pitching the world's first smart running shoe.
0:28.2	Why make a smart shoe, you ask?
0:30.6	In a minute, in a minute.
0:32.3	We'll let the VCs ask that question.
0:34.8	First, why start a company in the first place? My parents were immigrants to the
0:41.1	U.S. and my dad, I watched him grow and build companies for the first 20 years of my life. Just watching
0:47.6	him. I didn't even know why, but it was something that I was attracted to and something that I knew
0:51.5	that one day I would do. I was waking up in the
0:54.7	morning and all I could think about was this. And so I had to. I didn't have a choice.
1:01.0	The pitch for a velo is coming up after this. And whether you're watching or listening on
1:06.7	YouTube, Patreon, or your favorite podcast player, thanks so much for subscribing.
1:11.6	And don't forget to turn on notifications.
1:16.6	This episode of the pitch is brought to you exclusively by Mercury.
1:20.6	You probably already know that I'm a fan of Mercury.
1:23.6	They were a sponsor last season, they're back again this season. And I couldn't be happier
1:28.8	because Mercury is the banking platform built for entrepreneurs, like literally built for people like me.
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