Jason Calacanis
Founder & CEO @ LAUNCH
San Francisco, United States
Jason Calacanis is a pre-seed investor at LAUNCH in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
- Total investments:
- 785
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Jason Calacanis invests in
Stages Jason Calacanis invests in
Countries Jason Calacanis invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $525k–$5.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$2.1M
- Convertible Note
- $25k–$1M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 118 (15%)
- SaaS 58 (7%)
- Artificial Intelligence 54 (7%)
- Internet 43 (5%)
- E-Commerce 41 (5%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 195 (25%)
- Seed 142 (18%)
- Convertible Note 71 (9%)
- Series A 47 (6%)
- Angel 21 (3%)
Country
- United States 355 (45%)
- Australia 7 (1%)
- Canada 6 (1%)
- United Kingdom 4 (1%)
- Brazil 2 (0%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Hermetiq, the Build Intelligence Platform, gives engineering teams X-ray vision into their builds. With MCP-driven insights, detailed performance analytics, and cache optimization, Hermetiq helps teams eliminate bottlenecks and ship software faster.Hermetiq combines Remote Cache and RBE capabilities built on proven technologies (Buildbarn, NATS,Postgres, gRPC) with industry-leading observability. Full visibility into build performance through OpenTelemetry-powered metrics, comprehensive logging, and distributed tracing via VictoriaMetrics and Tempo. | $2.2M / Seed / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Building the synthetic testing and training infrastructure for physical AI companies deploying autonomous systems for the World's most critical industries. | $180K / Pre-Seed / Aug 08, 2026 | ||
| Maverick Intelligence provides software that identifies anonymous website visitors and delivers contact and company data for sales insights. | Convertible Note / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| 8090 Solutions provides an AI-native software development platform through Software Factory, a system designed to help teams manage the software development lifecycle from planning to deployment. The platform connects business requirements, architecture planning, implementation tasks, testing, and feedback within a shared workspace using AI-drivenworkflows and knowledge management. 8090 Solutions enables organizations to coordinate product, engineering, and business teams while maintaining visibility across software projects. The company’s solutions support custom software development, AI-assisted engineering processes, and enterprise software delivery through structured collaboration between teams and AI agents. | $135M / Series A / Jun 29, 2026 | ||
| Neurometric AI provides engineering consulting services intended for AI hardware. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Argyle Build is a Portland-based vertical SaaS company delivering AR-powered spatial project management for heavy industrial construction. Built for $100M+ projects, the platform runs on tablet and head-mounted AR hardware, enabling field teams to overlay spatial layout data onto physical environments in real time, replacing paper-based QA withstructured deviation capture and spatial intelligence. Argyle's physical AI approach integrates robotics-ready spatial data accumulation with multi-stakeholder construction workflows, serving advanced manufacturing and data center customers across large-scale industrial infrastructure buildout. The company holds two issued US patents, is SOC 2 certified, and carries DBE/SBE/WBE certifications. | Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2026 | ||
| Secludy is privacy-guaranteed AI training made easy. We use advanced privacy technology to generate synthetic datasets that mimic your original dataset so that you can train your AI models on your most valuable data – without risks of leaking PII.With Secludy, you can:- Enable privacy-guaranteed fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) forAI assistants, chatbots, and other machine learning applications.- Deploy within your cloud - use Secludy without sharing any data with us.- Stay compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. | $4M / Seed / May 13, 2026 | ||
| HOVR Industries is an aerospace technology company developing autonomous drone systems designed for high-precision commercial inspections and emergency response. The company leverages an open-source, hardware-agnostic architecture to provide scalable, cost-effective aerial robotics for industrial and public safety applications. By utilizingcommercial off-the-shelf components and advanced navigation stacks, HOVR enables automated data collection and monitoring in complex environments. | $25K / Pre-Seed / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| The Intelligent OS For Churches. | $125K / Convertible Note / Apr 17, 2026 | ||
| Vibe Code iOS Apps in Swift | Convertible Note / Mar 23, 2026 | ||
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Co-Investors
About LAUNCH
We Back Builders. Founded by @Jason Team behind This Week in Startups: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisWeekIn @twistartups The LAUNCH Accelerator https://launchaccelerator.co/ @launchincubator The Syndicate https://thesyndicate.com/ @thesyndicate415 Founder university:https://www.founder.university/ @founderuni Remote Demo Day https://remotedemoday.com/ @remotedemoday
LAUNCH Contacts
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Ashley Whitehurst
Managing Director
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Heidi Braun
Director of Operations
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Jacqui Deegan
Managing Director, Education
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Jason Calacanis
Founder & CEO
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Kelly Schricker
Principal
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FAQ
What does Jason Calacanis invest in?
Jason Calacanis invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 785 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Jason Calacanis's check size?
Jason Calacanis typically joins rounds of $525k–$5.3M at Seed, $100k–$2.1M at Pre-Seed and $25k–$1M at Convertible Note. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jason Calacanis participates in.
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When did Jason Calacanis last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jason Calacanis closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 785 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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