He Has 60 Seconds to Pitch – Are These 2 Investors Into It?

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The Feedback Loop

Sherveen Mashayekhi

80 episodes

5 months ago

Every week, 10 startup founders get up on stage in front of a live audience in NYC and give the 1 minute version of their pitch to two venture investors. Then, they receive 5 minutes worth of feedback about their storytelling, pitch, and concept. It's not about an investment being made on the spot, but instead transforming the way a founder talks about their startup -- because the thing that can hold even the best of founders back? Their storytelling. Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi and Free Agency.

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Every week, 10 startup founders get up on stage in front of a live audience in NYC and give the 1 minute version of their pitch to two venture investors. Then, they receive 5 minutes worth of feedback about their storytelling, pitch, and concept. It's not about an investment being made on the spot, but instead transforming the way a founder talks about their startup -- because the thing that can hold even the best of founders back? Their storytelling. Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi and Free Agency.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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He Has 60 Seconds to Pitch – Are These 2 Investors Into It?

The Feedback Loop

19 minutes 10 seconds

6 months ago

He Has 60 Seconds to Pitch – Are These 2 Investors Into It?

Otto wants to build an AI platform to shake up the legacy industry of legal research. Can he get busy attorneys and legal services companies – reliant on familiar tools and workflows –- to switch over to his product?

On Episode 070 of The Feedback Loop, that's what we get into!

Otto von Zastrow is building midpage. Instead of spending weeks sifting through Westlaw or LexisNexis, he wants lawyers to search, read, and organize thousands of cases in a connected workflow – featuring LLM-fueled tags, question--asking, parallel prompting, and more.

Can his 'Notion or Figma-style' approach offer a big enough leap over incumbents to make this interesting to our investor panel?

We get into:

Legal Research, Reinvented – Why building a better search bar isn’t enough to win over law firms and how a collaborative, AI‑driven approach may tip the scales.
Owning the Workflow – From daily case‑tagging to drafting briefs, Otto envisions a single tool that captures the entire journey – is that a clear pitch that venture capitalists can understand?
The Case for Data Supremacy – Scraping 500+ websites and linking case law with AI is no trivial feat, but is it the true moat that disrupts the duopoly?
Startup Pitch Essentials – Investors push Otto to share a compelling vision beyond “search.” How can midpage become the Figma of legal research and drafting?

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Apply now at afterfeedback.com and join our growing community of founders and investors.

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More on our guest investor for the episode:

Ihar Mahaniok is Managing Partner at Geek Ventures, which he founded in 2021 to support immigrant entrepreneurs building at the pre-seed and seed stage. He’s made more than 200+ investments over the past decade, and has invested early in companies like Instacart, People.ai, Chainalysis, PandaDoc, and Airbyte, to name a few.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahaniok

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Otto von Zastrow, founder of midpage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otto-von-zastrow-631b74113

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