Ben Camara was nervous but excited. It’s not often that a founder raising their seed round gets to pitch in front of a room full of potential investors at J.P. Morgan’s offices in New York City.
“As soon as I got to the stairs to go up onto the stage, I was actually okay,” Camara, the CEO and founder of Remote Coach, a digital platform designed to help content creators build apps and monetize their businesses, later told me. Camara was the first of five founders pitching his startup onstage on Tuesday morning in front of a host of venture investors and fellow founders in the conference room on Madison Avenue. The startups ranged from Gildform, an on-demand jewelry manufacturing business using 3D printing, to Talisman, a platform that automates IT functions.
