LAUNCH Fund

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.