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You spend 14 weeks building and growing.
We invest $125K and help raise your round.
Cohort 34 - April 2025
Cohort 35 - August 2025
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What our alumni have to say
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Caylee Harrington, Hookhub, LA33
LAUNCH was a game-changer for our startup. The program provided us with invaluable mentorship, strategic guidance, and a network of investors and fellow founders who truly understand the challenges of scaling a business. The LAUNCH team’s dedication to founder success is unparalleled, and we left the program with not only new opportunities but also a clear vision for the future. If you're serious about taking your startup to the next level, LAUNCH is the place to be!
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Chris Tung, Nerd Crawler, LA33
JCal and his team encouraged me to go full-time, helped me fine tune my pitch, and gave me access to investors I would’ve struggled to get in front of. But more importantly, the community of founders I was a part of in LA33 were motivating and inspiring, and it’s because of their support that Nerd Crawler was able to 10x growth in just a year of being founded.
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Linda Gray, Mastertech, LA32
Since starting the accelerator, we have more than doubled our MRR, raised a pre-seed round, jammed with J-Cal in person for his direct feedback, pitched in person at the storied Sequoia Capital, and we have received so much valuable feedback and support along the way to help our business grow.
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Vinay Chandra, Layerpath, LA32
Launch is more than an accelerator. It's a transformation program that teaches founders:
→ How to communicate your story to investors, customers, and your team.
→ The importance of constant iteration—fine-tuning every aspect of your pitch.
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Chris Hamoen, Data Parrot, LA29
As we near the end of our cohort, I can say that the accelerator has been huge for Data Parrot from both a company building and investor relationship building perspective. We now have over 50 companies using our platform, and have started a pre-seed round with commits coming in. Shout out to the LAUNCH Accelerator team for their incredible support.
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Taylor Monks, Basic Block, LA16
Being from outside the Bay Area, LAUNCH gave us immediate access to the best of the best. We had 100+ portfolio companies actually leaning into us, helping us learn what mattered and how to raise serious money from some of the best VCs in SF. Jason and his team changed the way we built our business and connected us with founders and investors who actually pull you further, faster.
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Ben Seidl, Neyborly, LA12
LAUNCH fundamentally changed our business for the better. We went from a small team, growing revenue slowly and steadily, to a thriving and expanding startup. The experience of going through the LAUNCH accelerator was life-changing as a founder, and game-changing for our business.
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Evan Zhou, Steezy, LA8
Being a part of the LAUNCH Accelerator gave us access to a huge network of investors, founders, and operators that we never would’ve met. We knew how to build our company, but through the program, we learned how to communicate that to investors and close our seed round.
More than capital.
Raise money faster, at a higher valuation.
Plug into a pre-existing Silicon Valley network from anywhere in the world.
Join the LAUNCH family with access to fellow founders who can help grow your business.
Perfect your pitch for investors, recruiting, and press.
Learn strategies, tips, and tactics from the best companies and founders in the world.
Prioritized speaking opportunities at This Week in Startups, Founder.University, and more!
Our current cohort, LA33.
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The idea LAUNCH Accelerator company is Pre-Series A with traction. Generally speaking, this means…
1. Enterprise/marketplace startups: $2k+ in MRR with 20%+ growth m/o/m
2. Consumer products: 3k+ DAUs with 5%+ w/o/w growth
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Generally, this is too early for our Accelerator. We want prototypes more than PowerPoints. BUT we urge you to apply to Founder University, a 12-week course designed exactly for founders who are just getting started. (We invest in the top Founder University graduates, and many move on to the Accelerator!)
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Yes! Most of our startups have already raised an angel or seed round. The LAUNCH Accelerator only accepts seven startups per class. This allows us to be very selective in picking startups that are on solid footing and whose founders can leverage our program to get a solid seed or Series A.
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We invest $125k for 7% of a startup. Because of the tremendous value that our program creates, these terms are non-negotiable. BUT, even if they don’t work for you, we want to hear from you when you hit $25K/month or more in gross profit for 3+ months, growing at 15% month-over-month. If that’s you, apply for investment via TheSyndicate.com.
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LAUNCH has the option to invest $250k (or pro rata) in the next two rounds of funding in all accelerator startups; with the right to standard pro rata in future rounds. One or two startups coming out of each class elects to defer fundraising or raise a modest round, in which case we will do our pro rata or support the founder in the future. We may elect to skip over a round.
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The answer is ALL THREE! By design. Our goal is to invest in founders and their startups three or even four times along their journey, from Accelerator, to Seed Round, to Series A and sometimes even to Series B. We’re looking to invest in founders over the course of a long career, like Rahul Vohra from Superhuman, who worked with LAUNCH on both Rapportive AND Superhuman.
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Yes, our goal is to have 10%-15% ownership in startups we invest in over time — but we won't let that stop us from partnering with a great founder. Our goal is to be the best investor and partner you have, not only for this startup but over your entire entrepreneurial career. Our founders tell us that the earlier rounds of funding are brutally hard and the later ones are easy, so we typically see ourselves participating in three or four rounds of funding, which increases our ownership from six percent to ten or higher.
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Both! We are primarily virtual week over week. Two to three sessions per cohort occur in person in San Francisco, Austin, and New York City.
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At least one founder from the team needs to be present for each session. (Co/founders can alternate if desired.)
We welcome additional team members to join us and believe our program is a good time to involve the entire team. Ultimately, we leave this up to you.