# LaunchPad Venture

> LaunchPad Venture is a VC fund in Newton backing Software and Health Care. See 121 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newton, United States
- Total investments: 121
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/launchpad-venture-group/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/LaunchpadVG
- Website: http://www.launchpadventuregroup.com

LaunchPad Venture is a VC fund in Newton focused on Software and Health Care. Launchpad Venture Group is an angel investment group that provides funding to early-stage companies. It looks for innovative, technology-driven startup companies addressing a significant market opportunity where investors can make a difference. It is well connected to potential customers, service providers, partners, and future sources offinancing. It is providing human and financial capital to help entrepreneurs build successful companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $445k–$3.3M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 27 | 22% |
| Health Care | 20 | 17% |
| Biotechnology | 14 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 8% |

174 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 39 | 32% |
| Series A | 27 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 11% |
| Series B | 11 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 7% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 88 | 73% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Argentina | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Brown | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-brown-d760 |
| Andrew Stern | Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-stern-2 |
| Raza Shaikh | Managing Director | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raza-shaikh |
| Adam Martel | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-martel |
| Christine Bunt | Angel Investor & Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christine-bunt |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ClearCut Surgical | ClearCut Surgical is a medical device company that offers electrocautery surgical tool with on-demand fluid suction. | $4.5M | Seed | Aug 28, 2025 |  |
| Surgicure Technologies | Surgicure is a biotechnology start-up company that is dedicated to building effective medical instruments to prevent unnecessary harm while promoting safety and efficiency for both its patients and practitioners during surgical procedures and healing processes. Its product secures medical tubes intubated within a patient's mouth while relyingon the patient's oral cavity.Founded in 2018 by Irena Volkov, Surgicure Technologies is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| AceUp, Inc. | AceUp is the leading global provider of Human-Centered Leadership™ development solutions for individuals and teams.AceUp helps global, innovative, and purpose-driven organizations build high-performing teams at scale. upskilling leaders at all levels to lead transformation in a VUCA world.We combine 1-on-1 and team coaching, AI-poweredmicro-learning, and prescriptive analytics to maximize team alignment, engagement, and performance at scale.Are you unlocking your teams full potential? Learn more about how to fuel the success of your teams at all levels. | $22.5M | Series A | Sep 12, 2024 |  |
| CYVL | Cyvl.ai is a developer of infrastructure technology platform that enables civil engineers and governments to manage the world's physical infrastructure assets more effectively and affordably.Civil engineers and governments can gather data on their roads, sidewalks, signs, trees, and more using the company's cutting-edge 3D mappingtechnology, proprietary algorithms powered by machine learning, and a strong, user-friendly web-based SaaS platform, which allows for direct integration into other asset management tools. | $6M |  | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| CYVL | Cyvl.ai is a developer of infrastructure technology platform that enables civil engineers and governments to manage the world's physical infrastructure assets more effectively and affordably.Civil engineers and governments can gather data on their roads, sidewalks, signs, trees, and more using the company's cutting-edge 3D mappingtechnology, proprietary algorithms powered by machine learning, and a strong, user-friendly web-based SaaS platform, which allows for direct integration into other asset management tools. | $6M | Series A | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| CYVL | Cyvl.ai is a developer of infrastructure technology platform that enables civil engineers and governments to manage the world's physical infrastructure assets more effectively and affordably.Civil engineers and governments can gather data on their roads, sidewalks, signs, trees, and more using the company's cutting-edge 3D mappingtechnology, proprietary algorithms powered by machine learning, and a strong, user-friendly web-based SaaS platform, which allows for direct integration into other asset management tools. | $6M | Seed | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| AsqMe | AsqMe is a Q&A platform that helps creators manage and monetize audience questions. |  | Angel | Aug 01, 2023 |  |
| Groma | Groma is a vertically integrated real estate investment, development and management company combined with a tech startup building tools to provide better outcomes for our investors, tenants and the communities we serve. | $20M | Series A | Jan 30, 2023 |  |
| Jaia Robotics | Jaia Robotics is a provider and developer of microsized autonomous and subsurface marine vehicles. It also provides comprehensive data collection services helping clients to affordable aquatic data collection. It also provides a multi-sensor configurable technology that requires minimal user training with wide-ranging capabilities compared totraditional crewed or uncrewed data collection systems. | $1M | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| FreightFlows | Freightflows is a maritime company that offers predictive analytics for global trade. It specializes in the fields of analytics, big data, data science, and machine learning. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 121 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does LaunchPad Venture invest in?

LaunchPad Venture invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 121 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 LaunchPad Venture's check size?

LaunchPad Venture typically joins rounds of $445k–$3.3M at Seed and $1.1M–$13M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds LaunchPad Venture participates in.

### How do I contact LaunchPad Venture?

Public channels for LaunchPad Venture include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 LaunchPad Venture?

The team at LaunchPad Venture includes Alex Brown (Managing Director), Andrew Stern (Member) and Raza Shaikh (Managing Director), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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