LaunchTime
VC Fund
New York, United States
LaunchTime is an early-stage investor and incubator focused on e-commerce and digital media companies. It helps start and invest in digital media and e-commerce ventures. Its portfolio includes bounce exchange, coupang, derbyjackpot, doodledeals (acquired by plum district), fundedbuy, guest of a guest, howaboutwe, jump ramp games, kontagent (nowupsight), noom, thinknear (acquired by telenav) and yipit.The company is based in New York, New York.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries LaunchTime invests in
Stages LaunchTime invests in
Countries LaunchTime invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 2 (29%)
- E-Commerce 2 (29%)
- iOS 1 (14%)
- Apps 1 (14%)
- News 1 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (43%)
- Angel 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
- Debt Financing 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 5 (71%)
- South Korea 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Coupang
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Coupang offers an e-commerce platform that is powered by innovative technology and operations. It offers its customers possible prices and product selection within a convenient and personalized shopping environment.Powered by technology and operations, Coupang has set out to transform the end-to-end customer experience from revolutionizinglast-mile delivery to rethinking how Customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi. | $100M / May 28, 2014 | |
Guest of a Guest
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Guest of a Guest is a digital media company that celebrates and serves society's cultural influencers through its curated social calendar, event photography services and editorial coverage. With offices in New York, L.A., D.C., Miami, the Hamptons, and Global events coverage, Guest of a Guest is building one of the largest searchable photodirectories of both celebrities and non-celebrity guests at events."GofG is redefining what it means to be famous." | $560K / Debt Financing / Aug 27, 2013 | |
Wunderkind
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Wunderkind is a leading performance marketing engine that delivers tailored experiences at scale. Digital businesses use Wunderkind to remember who users are better than ever before, allowing them to deliver high-performing, one-to-one messages on websites, through emails and texts, and in ads at a scale that’s not otherwise possible. Wunderkinddrives $1.2 billion dollars annually in directly attributable revenue for top e-commerce brands like Uniqlo, Sonos and HelloFresh, often ranking as a top-3 revenue channel in their own analytics. Wunderkind is maniacally obsessed with ROI and aims to be the infrastructural interface between individuals and brands in a world where consumers choose what they want, from whom, and when. Learn more at wunderkind.co. | $1.5M / Series A / May 24, 2013 | |
Thinknear
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Thinknear is a location technology company and full-service mobile advertisingplatform focused on delivering amazing advertising campaigns for agencies,brands, and consumers. Thinknear’s platform delivers the accuracy, scaleand technology required to effectively leverage mobile location data to powerbetter consumer experiences. In mobile,accuracy matters, and as a division ofTelenav, Thinknear leverages exclusive access to over 15 years of proprietarylocation data. To learn more, please visit www.thinknear.com and follow @thinknear on Twitter and Instagram. | $1.6M / Series A / Aug 13, 2011 | |
Jump Ramp
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Considered one of New York City’s fastest growing mobile-first companies, Jump Ramp is the leader in delivering innovative promotions, rewards and instant winning experiences through free mobile casual gaming. Connecting consumers with our top partners in mobile gaming, commerce, branding and product discovery. We are backed by premiere VCsincluding SoftBank Capital, Bullpen Capital. Founders Collective and LeadEdge Capital. Our flagship app Lucktastic launched on Android in 2014 and has quickly built an engaged, enthusiastic and loyal customer base attracting nearly 10 million installs in the US on Android and iOS. Lucktastic is consistently ranked in the top 3 within the lifestyle category on the Google Play Store alongside brands like Tinder, Zillow, and Starbucks as well as top 10 respectively in the Apple Store. With a dominant social footprint that includes nearly 2 million Facebook fans, the Lucktastic brand has a reach that extends 12 million weekly unique American consumers. We have a strong focus on extending our brand and becoming a household name in the US. Jump Ramp looks to grow a network of apps and innovative content beyond our flagship app with an eye on expanding to Asia and other International markets. Jump Ramp prides itself on being a close knit team with nearly 40 employees, and looking to double in the next 18 months. We look for talent that thrives in an innovative entrepreneurial environment, is excited about consumer products that touch millions of Americans and who embrace our exciting diverse NYC culture. We’re not afraid to move fast and break things as we release, launch, iterate, update and announce - sometimes all in the same day! So if you thrive on solving problems in the mobile space that have never been tackled before, come join our team! | $1.2M / Series A / May 11, 2011 | |
Upsight
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Upsight(formerly Kontagent) is a mobile analytics and marketing platforms in the world, processing more than 500 billion data points monthly and used by thousands of apps worldwide to manage and optimize their mobile businesses.Enterprises depend on Upsight’s reliable, flexible and scalable data platform to handle their large-scale ingestion,collection, processing and storage needs. This platform powers Upsight’s data-driven marketing tools, used to understand user behaviors and influence them with targeted in- and out-of-app engagement, retention, re-engagement and monetization campaigns. Designed to be flexibly accessed, the data and marketing tools are accessible via flexible APIs to both third-party solutions and Upsight’s platform tools.Upsight is widely adopted by a variety of mobile-focused businesses including established brands such as Warner Brothers, Viacom, and Turner, and game publishing powerhouses such as Electronic Arts, Activision, Glu Mobile and BigFish. | $1M / Angel / Apr 09, 2010 | |
DoodleDeals Inc.
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DoodleDeals is a discovery and daily deal site serving families with offers up to 90% off children's classes, museums, birthday parties, entertainment and more. DoodleDeals.com is in partnership with Diapers.com however there are also distribution partnerships with other major media companies, ecommerce businesses and marketing servicesbusinesses that have access to large databases. Through this distribution network, they distribute their top quality daily deals to millions of users throughout the United States. | $1.3M / Series A / Feb 01, 2010 |
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FAQ
What does LaunchTime invest in?
LaunchTime invests primarily in Mobile, E-Commerce and iOS startups, most often at Series A and Angel stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did LaunchTime last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for LaunchTime closed in May 2014. Shizune tracks 7 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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