Launch Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital fund being invested in early-stage startups. Jason Calacanis founded the company in 2010. It creates events, books, research products, and podcasts to help founders and entrepreneurs. The firm invests its funds in 40-50 startups in a year through the events it organizes. The startups the company has invested include Calm, Datastax, Desktop Metal, Robinhood, Uber, Thumbtack, and Wealthfront. Their investment ranges from $25,000 to $1.5 million. The events by the company include LAUNCH festival, LAUNCH Scale, Founder University. It also runs ‘This Week in Startups’ podcast and ‘LAUNCH ticker’ online news aggregator.
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Ashley Whitehurst
Managing Director of the Syndicate
Grant Crider
Director of Partnerships
Jacqui Deegan
Managing Director of Accelerator
Jason Calacanis
Founder and CEO
Matt Kotler
VP of Sales
Presh Dineshkumar
Associate, Growth
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