Team

Built by founders, for founders.

Pitch Protocol is agent-native venture-capital infrastructure: founders submit once and get matched to thesis-aligned funds.

Josh May
Co-Founder

Josh has spent 20+ years building and scaling software platforms. He bootstrapped and co-founded POWR, scaling it to millions of users through its acquisition by Pluribus, and now builds ventures as a Partner at Growth Factory Studio, where he co-founded Pitch Protocol to make early-stage fundraising programmable.

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Ali Mackani
Co-Founder

Ali is a serial founder and investor and General Partner at Growth Factory Ventures. He co-founded CREE8, has founded and led companies through acquisition, and co-created Pitch Protocol to bring structured, verifiable signal to early-stage fundraising.

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Farzad Nazifi
Co-Founder

Farzad is a self-taught engineer, CTO and Partner at Growth Factory Ventures, and the build lead of Pitch Protocol, including its agent-native MCP layer. His work spans finance, proptech, and AI, with a focus on turning complex processes into simple systems.

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