LAUNCH
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
LAUNCH is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. 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
- Total investments:
- 424
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $45M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries LAUNCH invests in
Stages LAUNCH invests in
Countries LAUNCH invests in
Contacts
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Ashley Whitehurst
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Heidi Braun
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Jacqui Deegan
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Kelly Schricker
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 52 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 35 (8%)
- SaaS 28 (7%)
- Internet 21 (5%)
- E-Commerce 19 (4%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 85 (20%)
- Seed 62 (15%)
- Convertible Note 28 (7%)
- Funding Round 16 (4%)
- Series A 13 (3%)
Country
- United States 149 (35%)
- Australia 5 (1%)
- Canada 4 (1%)
- Brazil 1 (0%)
- Poland 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Ashley Whitehurst
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Heidi Braun
Director of Operations
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Director of Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jacqui Deegan
Managing Director, Education
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Managing Director, Education | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jason Calacanis
Founder & CEO
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Founder & CEO | Total investments: 557 | Find email | |
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Kelly Schricker
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Maverick Intelligence
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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
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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 | |
Argyle Build, Inc.
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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
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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
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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 | |
ChurchAI
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The Intelligent OS For Churches. | $125K / Convertible Note / Apr 17, 2026 | |
Milq AI
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Vibe Code iOS Apps in Swift | Convertible Note / Mar 23, 2026 | |
VoiceClaw
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voice-driven AI development for non-technical humans. | $125K / Convertible Note / Mar 17, 2026 | |
Lauft
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Lauft is an online technology platform, it allows customers to find home with one scroll while tailoring recommendations. | Convertible Note / Mar 05, 2026 | |
Grapple
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Grapple provides a no-code data platform for creating analytics dashboards using natural language. | Convertible Note / Feb 03, 2026 | |
| See all 424 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
The Syndicate.com
90 deals together
Hustle Fund
10 deals together
Craft Ventures
9 deals together
Alumni Ventures
8 deals together
Forum Ventures
8 deals together
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FAQ
What does LAUNCH invest in?
LAUNCH invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 424 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at LAUNCH includes Ashley Whitehurst (Managing Director), Heidi Braun (Director of Operations) and Jacqui Deegan (Managing Director, Education), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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