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How to pitch when you’re at the inception stage | TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Raising pre-seed and seed-stage capital at the inception stage means pitching without a product, users, or traction — just a vision and a founder story. In this TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 panel, Wesley Chan of FPV Ventures and Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures share what they look for in the earliest-stage founders and how to stand…

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Raising pre-seed and seed-stage capital at the inception stage means pitching without a product, users, or traction — just a vision and a founder story. In this TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 panel, Wesley Chan of FPV Ventures and Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures share what they look for in the earliest-stage founders and how to stand out when you have little more than an idea.

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  1. @vortex7730

    November 6, 2025 at 3:22 pm

    I checked thrice to confirm I’m not playing at 2x when Wesley was speaking

    • @Thr3_dot

      November 7, 2025 at 1:35 am

      Haha I always listen to my videos in 2x and I had to put it down to 1x lol he was dropping to much gems a second

    • @thewashrcompany

      November 9, 2025 at 12:05 pm

      Thought it was just me. Gotta drop it more

    • @choco.es.secret

      November 15, 2025 at 8:36 am

      I always 2x. I can’t do this slow azz talking

  2. @richrich2862

    November 6, 2025 at 3:54 pm

    difficult to get introductions when there are no connection with people they know due to distance – kind of is a bummer

    • @MAureliusHiggs

      November 7, 2025 at 9:05 am

      We live on the internet. You’re one connection away. Start publishing and refining your idea. Put out a message there. It will refine, and those who it’s for will find you.

    • @richrich2862

      November 7, 2025 at 11:05 am

      @MAureliusHiggsmy deep tech startup was shortlisted for an award – and the judges are from huge VCs locally and from EU and one from Silicon Valley.

    • @DJjussi1

      November 11, 2025 at 10:29 am

      That’s the test

  3. @sparshbohra4135

    November 6, 2025 at 4:28 pm

    13:33

  4. @skyeparker5822

    November 10, 2025 at 2:17 am

    I would love to know what googles 100 year plan is

  5. @BreezeTalk

    November 10, 2025 at 6:04 am

    We generally seem to be learning about the mindset and lifestyle of early stage investing.

  6. @mylocator

    November 13, 2025 at 2:31 pm

    there are some great insights and confirmations of visionary perceptions in this interview. vc and pedigree are not the best for a startups funding or futures. explains vc and startups failure rate. combined with most are a shell game false front. one look at there portfolios tells a founder everything.

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Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freights | Equity Podcast

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people who lived through that first…

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The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people who lived through that first wave who are building the next one. 

Humble Robotics founder and CEO Eyal Cohen is one of them. Cohen was at Otto when Uber came calling, later followed Anthony Levandowski to Pronto, and after two decades bouncing between deep tech bets in the Bay Area, his new company came out of stealth in April with $24 million to build a fully autonomous, cabless electric hauler for freight. 

Cohen joins Kirsten Korosec on this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast to talk about AV déjà vu and what he’s learned from 15 years of building startups across electrification, solar, and robotics.  

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17:07 Ditching lidar for cameras and vision models
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22:41 Advice for founders: choose culture over compensation
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