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Capital Calling

Capital Calling

著者： Coeus Collective
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 Welcome to Capital Calling: a video podcast where founders pitch live, and investors decide. Our show features leading early-stage founders pitching their startups directly to leading venture capitalists, including investors from iconic firms like Draper Associates, Initialized Capital, Pioneer Fund, and SOSV. Produced by Coeus Collective Ventures in partnership with the NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship, the show offers an unfiltered look at how venture decisions are actually made. This is a show that takes you "behind the curtain" of venture investing: viewers see how investors evaluate teams, markets, and traction in real time, and how founders respond when the stakes are real and outcomes are uncertain. Filmed in New York City and distributed across the @CoeusCollective YouTube channel and all podcast platforms, Capital Calling sits at the intersection of media, entrepreneurship, and capital. Do these founders have what it takes to answer the calls of the investors? Find out on the first season of our show.© 2026 Circle Promotions, LLC マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 個人ファイナンス 経済学
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  • Tastee Tape: From Edible Burrito Tape to a $100B Packaging Opportunity

    Tastee Tape: From Edible Burrito Tape to a $100B Packaging Opportunity
    2026/04/02
    This startup made edible tape for burritos. But can a viral product idea become a real sustainable packaging company? In this episode of Capital Calling, Marie Eric, Founder and CEO of Tastee Tape, pitches a biomaterials company developing edible, compostable, and biodegradable packaging film designed to replace conventional plastic food wrap. What began as a student project at Johns Hopkins to stop burritos from falling apart quickly exploded online, but the bigger opportunity turned out to be much broader than burritos. Tastee Tape is now building plant-based flexible packaging designed to be food-safe, moisture-resistant, home-compostable, and strong enough to compete with the performance demands of traditional plastic. The company’s story is no longer just about virality. Through customer discovery and early traction, Tastee Tape identified a much larger problem in food packaging: businesses want sustainable alternatives, but most options still fail on performance, scalability, or cost. Tastee Tape is positioning itself as a biomaterials platform for flexible packaging, with ambitions to serve foodservice and packaging supply chains at scale through manufacturing and licensing. Across the table, investors Zac Geinzer of Commonweal Ventures, Ella Molony Cook of DFX, and Max Rivera of GHOST Angels engage with the pitch as it unfolds. They examine whether Tastee Tape’s plant-based film can truly compete with plastic on performance and price, whether a product that first captured attention as “burrito tape” can grow into a serious materials company, and whether this unusual wedge is quirky enough to go viral yet credible enough to become venture-backable. Capital Calling provides a behind-the-scenes look at a real pitch from both sides of the table. Each episode begins with a live founder pitch and product demo, followed by direct investor questioning. After the pitch, investors enter into a private debrief conversation where they debate the opportunity openly: without the founder present. The founder, on the other hand, enters the On-Call Room to discuss the pitch one-on-one from their perspective. Then, the investors give their verdicts, where feedback is delivered candidly and decisions are made. Produced by Coeus Collective in partnership with the NYU Stern Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship, Capital Calling offers founders, operators, students, and investors an unfiltered look at how early-stage investment decisions actually happen, and what separates compelling ideas from fundable companies. Founders pitch live. Investors decide.
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    32 分
  • Vitalis: Can This Biomaterial Help Tendons Heal Faster?

    Vitalis: Can This Biomaterial Help Tendons Heal Faster?
    2026/03/26
    Tendon injuries are notoriously hard to heal. Even after surgery, recovery can be slow, complications are common, and today’s tools often stop at mechanical repair instead of actively promoting regeneration. But can a biomaterials company built to improve healing in the operating room convince investors it belongs in the future of surgical care? In this episode of Capital Calling, Asser El Ashwah, Founder of Vitalis Regenerative Materials, pitches a company developing regenerative biomaterials designed to improve surgical outcomes. Vitalis’s lead product, BioBlend, is a bio-integrated tool that combines advanced biomaterial formulations with PRP at the point of care, with the goal of enhancing tissue regeneration, reducing complications, and improving recovery in sports medicine procedures and beyond. The company is initially focused on tendon repair, where existing interventions often fail to deliver sustained biological support during healing. (NYU Tandon School of Engineering - https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/asser-el-ashwah-molecular-architect-building-new-biomaterials-new-way-heal-and-new-company) What sets Vitalis apart is its delivery mechanism. Unlike conventional PRP therapies, which can dissipate quickly and lose effectiveness, Vitalis is building a system designed for localized, sustained release of growth factors through a biocompatible polymer formulation. The product is intended to fit directly into existing surgical workflows, turning regenerative medicine from a post-operative add-on into an integrated biosurgical tool. Over time, the company sees broader applications across orthopedic, vascular, reconstructive, and wound healing procedures. (https://nyusternberkleycenter.com/2025/03/revolutionizing-recovery-with-vitalis-regenerative-materials/) Across the table, investors René Bastón of Covenant Venture Capital, Sabriya Stukes, PhD of SOSV, and Doug Hayes of Junto Health & Hubble engage with the pitch as it unfolds. They assess the clinical and commercial need in tendon repair and sports medicine, the defensibility of Vitalis’s biomaterial approach, the practicality of integrating the product into surgeon workflows, and whether a regenerative platform built around sustained growth-factor delivery can scale into a venture-backed medical device company. Capital Calling provides a behind-the-scenes look at a real pitch from both sides of the table. Each episode begins with a live founder pitch and product demo, followed by direct investor questioning. After the pitch, investors enter into a private debrief conversation where they debate the opportunity openly: without the founder present. The founder, on the other hand, enters the On-Call Room to discuss the pitch one-on-one from their perspective. Then, the investors give their verdicts, where feedback is delivered candidly and decisions are made. Produced by Coeus Collective in partnership with the NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship, Capital Calling offers founders, operators, students, and investors an unfiltered look at how early-stage investment decisions actually happen, and what separates compelling ideas from fundable companies. Founders pitch live. Investors decide.
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    41 分
  • ConNext: Is There a Better Way to Network Than LinkedIn?

    ConNext: Is There a Better Way to Network Than LinkedIn?
    2026/03/19
    Professional networking is more fragmented than ever. Young professionals are told that relationships matter, yet most platforms still leave them cold messaging strangers, collecting weak ties, and hoping something turns into opportunity. But can a platform built to make networking more intentional convince investors it belongs at the center of career growth? In this episode of Capital Calling, Celia Davis, Founder of ConnNext, pitches a professional relationship platform built for young professionals looking to form more meaningful connections. ConnNext is designed to help users build real professional communities through a matching system focused on career growth, support, and relationship quality rather than passive social feeds or transactional outreach. The company’s core thesis is that networking should feel more human, more relevant, and more useful than sending hundreds of cold messages or endlessly applying to jobs online. (make-connexions.com (https://www.make-connexions.com/faq?utm_source=chatgpt.com)) ConnNext positions itself as a new layer in the professional networking ecosystem, aimed at Gen Z and millennials across industries who want to meet the right people digitally and in person. The platform is built around the idea that strong professional relationships can be matched, nurtured, and maintained more effectively through a purpose-built product focused on community, career development, and trust. Celia has described the company as a response to the uncertainty of the current job market and the need for a better way to network. (make-connexions.com (https://www.make-connexions.com/faq?utm_source=chatgpt.com)) Across the table, investors Jennifer Wolf, Former Managing Partner at Initialized Capital, Jeremy Kagan of Textbook Ventures, and Antonio Calderon of Distributed Ventures engage with the pitch as it unfolds. They assess professional networking behavior among younger users, the challenge of building trust and engagement in a relationship platform, the product’s differentiation from LinkedIn and other social networks, and whether ConnNext can scale into foundational infrastructure for meaningful professional connection. (LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/make-connexions?utm_source=chatgpt.com)) Capital Calling provides a behind-the-scenes look at a real pitch from both sides of the table. Each episode begins with a live founder pitch and product demo, followed by direct investor questioning. After the pitch, investors enter into a private debrief conversation where they debate the opportunity openly: without the founder present. The founder, on the other hand, enters the On-Call Room to discuss the pitch one-on-one from their perspective. Then, the investors give their verdicts, where feedback is delivered candidly and decisions are made. Produced by Coeus Collective in partnership with the NYU Stern Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship, Capital Calling offers founders, operators, students, and investors an unfiltered look at how early-stage investment decisions actually happen, and what separates compelling ideas from fundable companies. Founders pitch live. Investors decide. 🔔 Subscribe to Coeus Collective on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CoeusCollective 📰 Early Access newsletter: https://coeuscollective.beehiiv.com/ 📲 Follow us everywhere: @CoeusCollective Special thanks to the NYU Stern School of Business Berkeley Center for Entrepreneurship. Follow @nyuinnovation for updates on their programs. Hosted by Antonio Di Meglio and Leon Li DISCLAIMER: The Capital Calling podcast, and any related media properties produced by Coeus Collective, are provided solely for informational and educational purposes. Nothing presented in this episode should be construed as an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities, investments, or financial products. Coeus Collective does not provide investment advice, and all opinions expressed are those of the hosts or guests at the time of recording.
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    35 分
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