# LAUNCH

> LAUNCH is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 424 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 424
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Fund size: $45M
- Last fund: Nov 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/launch-calacanis/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/launch
- Website: http://launch.co
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/launch.is

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

## Contacts

5 contacts available for LAUNCH. Shizune tracks 8 team members at LAUNCH. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/launch-co?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 52 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 35 | 8% |
| SaaS | 28 | 7% |
| Internet | 21 | 5% |
| E-Commerce | 19 | 4% |

213 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 85 | 20% |
| Seed | 62 | 15% |
| Convertible Note | 28 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 4% |
| Series A | 13 | 3% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 149 | 35% |
| Australia | 5 | 1% |
| Canada | 4 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0% |
| Poland | 1 | 0% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ashley Whitehurst | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-whitehurst |
| Heidi Braun | Director of Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heidi-braun |
| Jacqui Deegan | Managing Director, Education | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacqui-deegan |
| Jason Calacanis | Founder & CEO | 557 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-calacanis |
| Kelly Schricker | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelly-schricker |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maverick Intelligence | 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 | 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. | 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 | 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 | 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 | The Intelligent OS For Churches. | $125K | Convertible Note | Apr 17, 2026 |  |
| Milq AI | Vibe Code iOS Apps in Swift |  | Convertible Note | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| VoiceClaw | voice-driven AI development for non-technical humans. | $125K | Convertible Note | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Lauft | Lauft is an online technology platform, it allows customers to find home with one scroll while tailoring recommendations. |  | Convertible Note | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Grapple | Grapple provides a no-code data platform for creating analytics dashboards using natural language. |  | Convertible Note | Feb 03, 2026 |  |

10 of 424 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Syndicate.com](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thesyndicate-com) — VC Fund, 90 deals together
- [Hustle Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hustle-fund) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Forum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forumventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [The Syndicate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-syndicate-74b8) — VC Fund, 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.

### How do I contact LAUNCH?

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### Who are the partners at LAUNCH?

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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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