Ventrix: The Gas Plant of the Future

**Josh Muccio** (0:00)
Welcome to The Pitch, where startup founders raise millions and listeners can invest. I'm Josh Muccio.

**Lisa Muccio** (0:05)
And I'm Lisa Muccio. And on the show today, we have Sonny with Ventrix. He's raising $2 million.

**Josh Muccio** (0:12)
Pitch listeners know this. I'm a beer guy.
I brew it in the garage.

**Lisa Muccio** (0:16)
Yes.

**Josh Muccio** (0:16)
And did you know that when you brew beer, there's CO2 involved, right?

**Lisa Muccio** (0:20)
Of course.

**Josh Muccio** (0:21)
Okay, so you need it in the beer, but also in the process of making the beer, a ton of CO2 escapes into the atmosphere. Boo. If only one could capture their own CO2 and then use it to carbonate their own beer.

**Lisa Muccio** (0:39)
It would be great if you didn't have to pay for CO2 because you're already making your own CO2.

**Josh Muccio** (0:44)
Good thing that is what Ventrix is building, the gas plant of the future. They've built this little modular fridge-sized gas plant that you can install in your brewery instead of having to pay these huge billion-dollar gas plants for your gas.

**Lisa Muccio** (0:59)
Which means breweries and pretty much anyone who carbonates can control their own CO2 supply.

**Josh Muccio** (1:06)
The question is, will one brewery be enough to prove that Ventrix can hop to the top?

**Lisa Muccio** (1:14)
The Pitch for Ventrix is coming up after this.

**Josh Muccio** (1:17)
But first, we are hosting two live shows this season, one at SF Tech Week in October and another one in November in Brooklyn.
And we're also hosting our big pitch event to record season 17 in San Francisco. You'll get to hear all the pitches live and ask questions that might get featured on the show.

**Lisa Muccio** (1:37)
To learn more about any of these events, go to pitch.show.events.

**Josh Muccio** (1:43)
Welcome back to The Pitch for Ventrix. Let's meet the investors.
Mike Ma with Sidecut Ventures.

**Mike Ma** (1:50)
I got strings. I'm not an easy yes.

**Josh Muccio** (1:52)
Rohit Gupta with Future Communities Capital.

**Rohit Gupta** (1:54)
Swashing money around all over the place.

**Josh Muccio** (1:56)
Michelle Kwok with Draper Associates.

**Rohit Gupta** (1:59)
We were deep in the cut for three hours. My brain just lit up.

**Josh Muccio** (2:04)
Jesse Middleton with Flybridge.

**Jesse Middleton** (2:06)
I'm so sick of people that are building stuff for building stuff sake.

**Josh Muccio** (2:10)
And Elizabeth Yin with Hustle Fund.

**Elizabeth Yin** (2:12)
My best deals have been the ones that I've committed on the spot.

**Rohit Gupta** (2:20)
Okay.

**Josh Muccio** (2:21)
What do I say?

**Sonny** (2:22)
Jesus Christ.

**Josh Muccio** (2:24)
The name of the company.

**Jesse Middleton** (2:26)
That was solid.

**Sonny** (2:26)
You have one job.

**Josh Muccio** (2:27)
You have one job.

**Jesse Middleton** (2:30)
One opportunity.

**Rohit Gupta** (2:32)
To take everything you ever wanted.

**Elizabeth Yin** (2:35)
I've been looking forward to being in real life with you, buddy.

**Jesse Middleton** (2:46)
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down.

**Josh Muccio** (2:49)
The whole crowd goes so loud, he opens his mouth when words won't come out. That was pretty good.

**Jesse Middleton** (2:55)
Are we going for karaoke tonight?

**Rohit Gupta** (2:56)
Oh my God, that'd be so fun.

**Josh Muccio** (2:59)
Hi.

**Jesse Middleton** (2:59)
Hello.

**Mike Ma** (3:00)
Hi, how are you doing?

**Sonny** (3:00)
I'm good, how are you?

**Mike Ma** (3:01)
Mike.

**Sonny** (3:02)
Sonny, nice to meet you.

**Josh Muccio** (3:02)
Hi, I'm Michelle.

**Sonny** (3:03)
Nice to meet you.

**Jesse Middleton** (3:04)
Hey, Jesse.

**Sonny** (3:04)
Nice to meet you.

**Elizabeth Yin** (3:05)
Hey, Sonny, Elizabeth.

**Josh Muccio** (3:06)
Nice to meet you.

**Sonny** (3:07)
Rohit, good to meet you.

**Josh Muccio** (3:08)
Nice to see you.

**Sonny** (3:09)
I feel like we met. We have.

**Josh Muccio** (3:10)
Yes.

**Elizabeth Yin** (3:12)
Did you invest?

**Lisa Muccio** (3:13)
No, we met once.

**Jesse Middleton** (3:14)
Did you ghost him or is it? Oh, okay.

**Elizabeth Yin** (3:18)
You had the floor. This guy.

**Sonny** (3:21)
Yeah.
I'm Sonny. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Ventrix Labs, and we're building modular industrial gas plants starting with CO2. Did you know that CO2 is actually in shortage in the UK since last week, and we don't have enough CO2 to make dry ice for food preservation, and now we have a food security problem. Every time something like this happens, last time was in 2023, the UK lost around 2 billion pounds, and this is not only a UK problem, it's a global problem because the plants that extract and purify industrial emissions into high-grade CO2 takes around two to seven years to build, and hundreds of millions to $1 billion to deploy.