Startup Pitch Event! The Feedback Loop (10/15) w/ Rachel ten Brink of Red Bike Capital
Join us for Tuesday’s taping of The Feedback Loop!
Every week, we invite a batch of early-stage startup founders to sharpen their pitch – in front of a live audience and later released on YouTube. After they deliver their 1 minute pitch, they'll receive 5 minutes of direct, actionable feedback on their pitch and concept from our check-writing investor judges.
As always, hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi, Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Joining Sherveen as this week's featured guest judge will be Rachel ten Brink General Partner & Founder of Red Bike Capital! More on Rachel below.
Want to pitch? Apply here! Important: this is an in-person event and will be recorded — but startups are all about execution, so don't be afraid of getting your idea out into the world!
Rachel ten Brink is the co-founder and General Partner of Red Bike Capital, an early-stage venture fund based in NYC focused on fintech, SaaS, and digital health. She was previously co-founder and CMO/CRO at Scentbird, a YC-backed startup offering consumer subscriptions for fragrances – they’ve raised $29M, and during Rachel’s tenure, she led the growth and partnership teams responsible for scaling the company to $100M+ in revenue and over 84 enterprise clients.
Prior to being a founder, she spent 15 years building billion dollar brands at Procter & Gamble, L’Oreal, Estee Lauder, Elizabeth Arden, and Bacardi. She holds an MBA from Columbia. In other words, she’s bringing an exciting mix of entrepreneurship, go to market and growth, plus big-brand marketing experience to the table.
The session is unscripted and unfolds in real time – the judges don’t know the founders’ ideas upon their arrival. There are no slides, there is no script, and there is no live funding happening – it’s all about the natural pitch. Because the thing that holds most founders back? Storytelling. It always comes back to storytelling.
Doors open at 6pm ET, and the show will begin at 6:30pm.