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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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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
3. Deep tech startups: an MVP and a strong technical team -
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.