# Launchbay Capital

> Launchbay Capital is a VC fund in London backing Bitcoin and FinTech. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/launchbay-capital/about/
- Website: https://launchbaycapital.com

Launchbay Capital is a VC fund in London focused on Bitcoin and FinTech. Launchbay Capital is committed to fostering innovation and liquidity in the technology space by providing essential investments and deal making expertise through the secondary investment fund and a direct investment platform.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series C | $100M–$170M |
| Series F | $197M–$600M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 2% |
| FinTech | 1 | 2% |
| Ethereum | 1 | 2% |
| Software | 1 | 2% |
| Aerospace | 1 | 2% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 1 | 2% |
| Series F | 1 | 2% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 2% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Levy Raiz | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/levy-raiz |
| Alan Vaksman | Founding Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-vaksman |
| Max Dunlap | Private markets associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-dunlap-adaa |
| Sam Cantor | Investment Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-cantor-4313 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| xAI | XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. | $5.3B | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 13, 2025 |  |
| Applied Intuition | Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company that accelerates the global adoption of safe, AI-driven machines. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion following its recent Series F funding round, Applied Intuition delivers the Vehicle OS, Self-Driving System, and toolchain to help customers build intelligent vehicles and shorten timeto market. 18 of the top 20 global automakers and major programs across the Department of Defense trust Applied Intuition's solutions to deliver vehicle intelligence. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture industries and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Diego, CA, Ft. Walton Beach, FL, Ann Arbor, MI, London, Stuttgart, Munich, Stockholm, Bangalore, Seoul, and Tokyo. | $600M | Series F | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Loft Orbital | Loft Orbital operates microsatellites and flies customer payloads as a service.Loft Orbital offers an end-to-end service that delivers missions to orbit on a standard microsatellite bus. The company handles all elements of a satellite campaign from end to end - booking, launching, and operating a satellite, as well as securing the necessarylicenses, insurance, and financing. | $170M | Series C | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Atlas | Atlas is a designer of spending products for explorers. | $27M | Series B | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| Netskope | Netskope, the SASE leader, safely and quickly connects users directly to the internet, any application, and their infrastructure from any device, on or off the network. With CASB, SWG, and ZTNA built natively in a single platform, the Netskope Security Cloud provides the most granular context, via patented technology, to enable conditional accessand user awareness while enforcing zero trust principles across data protection and threat prevention everywhere. Unlike others who force tradeoffs between security and networking, Netskope’s global security private cloud provides full compute capabilities at the edge. Netskope is fast everywhere, data-centric, and cloud-smart, all while enabling good digital citizenship and providing a lower total-cost-of-ownership. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 30, 2024 |  |
| Desia | Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Cohere | Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $500M | Series D | Jul 22, 2024 |  |
| Honeycomb | Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do. | $36M | Series B | May 07, 2024 |  |
| Revolut | Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange. It includes a pre-paid debit card, currency exchange, and peer-to-peer payments. It is on a mission to build a fair and frictionless platform to use and manage money around the world. | $110M |  | Apr 10, 2024 |  |
| Zapier | Zapier helps anyone to automate the most tedious parts of a day to day job.The company believes that there are jobs that a computer is best at doing and that there are jobs that a human is best at doing. Zapier wants to empower businesses everywhere to create processes and systems that let computers do what they are best at doing and let humansdo what they are best at doing. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Launchbay Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-horizon) — VC Fund, 32 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BlackRock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Launchbay Capital invest in?

Launchbay Capital invests primarily in Bitcoin, FinTech and Ethereum startups, most often at Series C and Series F stage. Most of the 43 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 Launchbay Capital's check size?

Launchbay Capital typically joins rounds of $100M–$170M at Series C and $197M–$600M at Series F. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Launchbay Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Launchbay Capital?

Public channels for Launchbay Capital include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Launchbay Capital?

The team at Launchbay Capital includes Levy Raiz (Venture Partner), Alan Vaksman (Founding Partner) and Max Dunlap (Private markets associate). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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