LAUNCH

LAUNCH is a California-based organization that supports entrepreneurs and fosters innovation within the technology sector. Established in 2010, it encompasses multiple initiatives, including the LAUNCH Fund, which focuses on early-stage investments in technology-related companies. Additionally, LAUNCH operates an incubator designed to nurture startup development. Its flagship event, the LAUNCH Festival, attracts over 12,000 participants, including venture capitalists, angel investors, founders, and industry professionals, serving as a premier platform for startups to showcase their innovations. The organization also produces the podcast "This Week in Startups," which discusses trends and insights in the startup ecosystem. Through its various endeavors, LAUNCH aims to empower founders and promote the growth of emerging companies.

Mike Savino

President

Ashley Whitehurst

Managing Director

Molly Wood

Managing Director and Co-Host of TWiST

Past deals in Collectibles

The Archivist

Venture Round in 2021
The Archivist provides an e-commerce platform intended to sell, rent or buy pre-owned, archive, and vintage fashion and jewelry. Founded in 2019, The Archivist is headquartered in New York, United States.

SoleSavy

Series A in 2021
SoleSavy is building the next generation of paid communities and marketplace. Our mission is to make collecting sneakers accessible and bring like-minded communities together.

SoleSavy

Series A in 2021
SoleSavy is building the next generation of paid communities and marketplace. Our mission is to make collecting sneakers accessible and bring like-minded communities together.

UndergroundCellar

Series A in 2021
Underground Cellar is an innovative online wine marketplace for discovering and buying premium wine. Every day it features a winery, region, or varietal in a themed offering and randomly rewards consumers with free bottle swap-outs to rare and private-stash bottles from prestigious wineries. The company, which is located in San Francisco, CA, allows its users to purchase wine from its winery partners, and members can accumulate, store up to 500 bottles, and ship their purchases, in perfect conditions in a state-of-the-art wine cellar in California wine country.

SoleSavy

Seed Round in 2021
SoleSavy is building the next generation of paid communities and marketplace. Our mission is to make collecting sneakers accessible and bring like-minded communities together.

SoleSavy

Seed Round in 2020
SoleSavy is building the next generation of paid communities and marketplace. Our mission is to make collecting sneakers accessible and bring like-minded communities together.

Rare Edition

Seed Round in 2020
Operator of a collectible space platform intended to buy, sell, grade, and vault consumer's collectibles. The company's space is built by lifelong collectors, impassioned technologists, and seasoned operators starting with sports and trading cards and rare coins, and converting these collectibles into matured investments, enabling customers with proper quality of service and raising the bar of an ecosystem.

UndergroundCellar

Seed Round in 2019
Underground Cellar is an innovative online wine marketplace for discovering and buying premium wine. Every day it features a winery, region, or varietal in a themed offering and randomly rewards consumers with free bottle swap-outs to rare and private-stash bottles from prestigious wineries. The company, which is located in San Francisco, CA, allows its users to purchase wine from its winery partners, and members can accumulate, store up to 500 bottles, and ship their purchases, in perfect conditions in a state-of-the-art wine cellar in California wine country.

Capsul

Seed Round in 2019
At Capsul, we don't sell jewelry, we sell memories. Our passion is to encapsulate your joyous moments into modern, timeless jewelry you'll want to wear each and every day. Using 3D-printing for mass customization, we are able to reduce lead time from 6 – 8 weeks to 1 – 2 weeks, and create high quality, personalized jewelry at an accessible price. Each piece can be customized with your own unique handwriting, sound wave of a voice, or engraving of a special name, date, or place. We are committed to the highest standard of sustainable and ethically-manufactured accessories, and seek to be the #1 global brand in customized jewelry.

UndergroundCellar

Seed Round in 2017
Underground Cellar is an innovative online wine marketplace for discovering and buying premium wine. Every day it features a winery, region, or varietal in a themed offering and randomly rewards consumers with free bottle swap-outs to rare and private-stash bottles from prestigious wineries. The company, which is located in San Francisco, CA, allows its users to purchase wine from its winery partners, and members can accumulate, store up to 500 bottles, and ship their purchases, in perfect conditions in a state-of-the-art wine cellar in California wine country.

UndergroundCellar

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Underground Cellar is an innovative online wine marketplace for discovering and buying premium wine. Every day it features a winery, region, or varietal in a themed offering and randomly rewards consumers with free bottle swap-outs to rare and private-stash bottles from prestigious wineries. The company, which is located in San Francisco, CA, allows its users to purchase wine from its winery partners, and members can accumulate, store up to 500 bottles, and ship their purchases, in perfect conditions in a state-of-the-art wine cellar in California wine country.

Hodinkee

Series A in 2016
Established in 2008, HODINKEE is the destination for all things in the world of horology. Over the past decade, ​founder Ben Clymer and team have​ grown HODINKEE into a robust media and retail platform by providing its respected point of view on industry news and releases, investing in engaging and creative storytelling, producing a designated podcast, printing a bi-annual publication, and launching and growing its own retail outlet, HODINKEE Shop. At its core, HODINKEE’s goal is to bring its readers and consumers the best in luxury products in a way that is approachable, authentic, and honest.

Clectaverse

Seed Round in 2016
Clectaverse is the culmination of the founders passion for collecting across popular culture. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion and if you saw our offices you would see that it takes the form of 3.5" figures in many cases! Clectaverse is a platform celebrating collections and collectors globally, we enable you to show off your collections and to connect to others to buy, sell and trade. You can use your collectibles to discover, join and create engaging communities where you validate new members to ensure that content is relevant to what you love. We will be building in exclusive content channels and features where you will be the first to know about new collectibles and events thanks to our content partners. In short we are building an evolving Geek wonderland and we will be listening to your ideas to help shape what we believe will be the only one platform experience for collecting you will ever need.

Clectaverse

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Clectaverse is the culmination of the founders passion for collecting across popular culture. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion and if you saw our offices you would see that it takes the form of 3.5" figures in many cases! Clectaverse is a platform celebrating collections and collectors globally, we enable you to show off your collections and to connect to others to buy, sell and trade. You can use your collectibles to discover, join and create engaging communities where you validate new members to ensure that content is relevant to what you love. We will be building in exclusive content channels and features where you will be the first to know about new collectibles and events thanks to our content partners. In short we are building an evolving Geek wonderland and we will be listening to your ideas to help shape what we believe will be the only one platform experience for collecting you will ever need.

Hodinkee

Seed Round in 2015
Established in 2008, HODINKEE is the destination for all things in the world of horology. Over the past decade, ​founder Ben Clymer and team have​ grown HODINKEE into a robust media and retail platform by providing its respected point of view on industry news and releases, investing in engaging and creative storytelling, producing a designated podcast, printing a bi-annual publication, and launching and growing its own retail outlet, HODINKEE Shop. At its core, HODINKEE’s goal is to bring its readers and consumers the best in luxury products in a way that is approachable, authentic, and honest.

Hodinkee

Seed Round in 2014
Established in 2008, HODINKEE is the destination for all things in the world of horology. Over the past decade, ​founder Ben Clymer and team have​ grown HODINKEE into a robust media and retail platform by providing its respected point of view on industry news and releases, investing in engaging and creative storytelling, producing a designated podcast, printing a bi-annual publication, and launching and growing its own retail outlet, HODINKEE Shop. At its core, HODINKEE’s goal is to bring its readers and consumers the best in luxury products in a way that is approachable, authentic, and honest.
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