Launch Alaska

Launch Alaska is a business accelerator that invests in scalable startups in food, water, transportation, and energy. Harnessing Alaska’s distinct mix of resources, markets, and opportunities, we work side by side with some of the world's brightest startups to help them scale solutions to the planet's hardest problems. We’re on a mission—to accelerate the resource revolution. To change our relationship with carbon fueled energy. To liberate our food, water, transportation, and energy systems from the prison of what past generations thought possible. To work with dynamic startups innovating real-world solutions to important problems. To get out of the rut of production and consumption we’ve been in for decades, stepping forward into a brighter future of access, independence, and efficiency. www.launchalaska.com/apply

Katherine Jernstrom

Member of Board of Directors

Susan Preston

Member of Advisory Board

8 past transactions

Ageto Energy

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Ageto Energy develops a simple, intuitive, and operator-focused microgrid control solution that maximizes clean, renewable energy. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States.

Aquilo

Seed Round in 2016
Aquilo provides crucial data with greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness to companies all over Alaska, using proven industrial drone technology. Aquilo's mission is to provide better information to decision makers while saving them money and keeping people on the ground safe. Aquilo uses proven drone technology to collect better data and information from formerly inaccessible, high risk, or logistically difficult areas.

60Hertz Energy

Seed Round in 2017
60Hertz provides a Maintenance Management Software platform designed specifically for people managing remote energy assets such as microgrids.

Veckta

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
VECKTA is the Energy Transition Market Platform. VECKTA integrates the world’s most advanced energy system engineering tools with an end-to-end marketplace to integrate and accelerate the development of distributed energy systems (DES) and microgrid projects. VECKTA empowers businesses and communities to quickly and easily baseline their energy situation today, customize a solution specific to their needs (cost, reliability and/or emissions) and then seamlessly engage and contract the best equipment, services, and capital providers in the market to finance, deploy and operate it sustainably and profitably.

XPOHOC

Seed Round in 2016
Chronos - intelligent wall clock controlled by voice and gestures

Heather's Choice

Seed Round in 2016
Provide healthy, delicious, packable food for adventurers worldwide

Kwema

Seed Round in 2016
Kwema, Inc. develops a device that connects women in danger with immediate help through security services. The company also develops software for building safer communities for women. It activates through fashionable bracelets or application, notify friends and family and community of application users close to location, and gets responses from private or public security services within network. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Springfield, Massachusetts.