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.

Jason Calacanis

Founder and CEO

Ashley Whitehurst

Managing Director

Past deals in Data Mining

CustomerIQ

Convertible Note in 2025
CustomerIQ is a technology company that provides a collaborative platform for teams to centralize, analyze, and understand customer feedback. The platform uses AI to automate the collection and organization of customer interactions from various sources such as calls, support tickets, and CRM notes. It then extracts insights, identifies themes, and quantifies feedback to help teams make data-driven decisions, identify product opportunities, and improve customer experiences.

Dephrase

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Dephrase is an AI Native SaaS app to enrich data collection and speed up qualification.

Prosperous

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Prosperous AI is a technology company that specializes in transforming sourcing and procurement processes for businesses. It offers an AI-powered platform that integrates with existing ERP systems, automating tasks such as supplier negotiations, material sourcing, and contract management. By leveraging real-time analytics, demand forecasting, and automated negotiations, the platform helps companies optimize their supply chain, reduce costs, and make more informed decisions. Prosperous AI has gained significant traction in industries like Aerospace, Infrastructure, and Energy, demonstrating rapid growth and success in helping enterprises improve their supply chain efficiency.

Querio

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Querio is a data insights platform that offers an AI-powered data analysis software designed for users at various technical levels. The platform enables businesses to establish their data infrastructure and analyze diverse datasets with minimal technical effort. Users can create dashboards, generate reports, and explore data while ensuring data safety and privacy. Querio's services include fully automated queries, visualizations, and collaborative features like co-pilot Jupyter notebooks, making data analysis accessible and effective for all users.

CustomerIQ

Convertible Note in 2024
CustomerIQ is a technology company that provides a collaborative platform for teams to centralize, analyze, and understand customer feedback. The platform uses AI to automate the collection and organization of customer interactions from various sources such as calls, support tickets, and CRM notes. It then extracts insights, identifies themes, and quantifies feedback to help teams make data-driven decisions, identify product opportunities, and improve customer experiences.

Rivin

Convertible Note in 2024
Rivin is an AI-based inventory intelligence platform that helps online businesses optimize operations by delivering sales and profitability insights across e-commerce marketplaces. It provides price histories, sales by seller, and omni-channel data to support inventory and market analysis. The platform centers on Walmart product pages, turning each listing into an analytics dashboard that offers profitability analysis, ROI, margin calculations after fees, sales metrics, competition data, and buy box intelligence. This enables users to evaluate wholesale lists, optimize pricing, and streamline procurement and inventory decisions.

Prosperous

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Prosperous AI is a technology company that specializes in transforming sourcing and procurement processes for businesses. It offers an AI-powered platform that integrates with existing ERP systems, automating tasks such as supplier negotiations, material sourcing, and contract management. By leveraging real-time analytics, demand forecasting, and automated negotiations, the platform helps companies optimize their supply chain, reduce costs, and make more informed decisions. Prosperous AI has gained significant traction in industries like Aerospace, Infrastructure, and Energy, demonstrating rapid growth and success in helping enterprises improve their supply chain efficiency.

Permar AI

Funding Round in 2024
Permar AI enables eCommerce shops to continuously optimize themselves around the clock. Using generative AI, Permar AI can automatically test texts, images, and entire elements on your website to increase conversion rates. By utilizing performance data, Permar AI iteratively refines the results, helping to optimize data-driven eCommerce web shops. Imagine a team consisting of a UX researcher, a frontend developer, and a designer tirelessly conducting experiments to improve the conversion rate of your website and boost growth. That's the essence of Permar.

Datamotto

Pre Seed Round in 2024
DataMotto is a developer of an AI-powered data analysis platform designed to transform raw data into valuable insights. The company specializes in providing an AI notebook that simplifies the process of data analysis, making it accessible to individuals with varying levels of technical expertise. Its tools guide users through targeted questions and automate code generation for custom queries, enabling users to derive insights from complex datasets with ease. By facilitating a more straightforward approach to data analysis, DataMotto empowers users to make informed, data-driven decisions effectively.

AskHumans

Pre Seed Round in 2024
AskHumans is a technology company that provides an AI-powered platform for businesses to collect, analyze, and understand customer feedback. The platform uses open-ended questions to gather real-time insights, with AI capabilities to identify sentiments and themes, and provide actionable recommendations. Key features include personalized and voice responses, visualized insights, and exportable reports, helping businesses enhance their understanding of customers and drive growth.

Querio

Convertible Note in 2023
Querio is a data insights platform that offers an AI-powered data analysis software designed for users at various technical levels. The platform enables businesses to establish their data infrastructure and analyze diverse datasets with minimal technical effort. Users can create dashboards, generate reports, and explore data while ensuring data safety and privacy. Querio's services include fully automated queries, visualizations, and collaborative features like co-pilot Jupyter notebooks, making data analysis accessible and effective for all users.

AskHumans

Convertible Note in 2023
AskHumans is a technology company that provides an AI-powered platform for businesses to collect, analyze, and understand customer feedback. The platform uses open-ended questions to gather real-time insights, with AI capabilities to identify sentiments and themes, and provide actionable recommendations. Key features include personalized and voice responses, visualized insights, and exportable reports, helping businesses enhance their understanding of customers and drive growth.

RealReports

Venture Round in 2023
RealReports is an AI-driven property advisory firm that equips real estate agents with essential tools to enhance value, increase sales, and manage risks effectively. The company’s platform aggregates data from over 60 leading industry providers to deliver comprehensive insights on residential properties across the United States. Utilizing a sophisticated AI named Aiden, RealReports enables agents to answer queries, analyze documents, and generate leads efficiently. The firm is trusted by prominent multiple listing services and brokerages, including PrimeMLS, Keyes, SFAR, Baird & Warner, Danberry Realtors, and Coldwell Banker Premier, providing a competitive edge for agents and their clients in the real estate market. Additionally, RealReports incorporates a unique NFT token system for each property, ensuring privacy-controlled access to a permanent, transferable record that supports homeowners in making informed decisions throughout the lifecycle of property ownership.

ProsperStack

Seed Round in 2022
ProsperStack is a hosted cancellation flow platform designed to help subscription-based businesses reduce churn and enhance customer retention. It automates the subscriber acquisition process while providing a customizable interface that allows product and support teams to tailor questions and interventions without relying on limited development resources. By leveraging a big data engine, ProsperStack analyzes consumer demand and integrates with a real-time dashboard to deliver alerts and notifications that assist in retaining customers. This enables businesses to identify target audiences, understand demand patterns, and refine marketing strategies, ultimately increasing profitability. Through its automated solutions, ProsperStack empowers brands to improve their customer retention experiences and thrive in competitive markets.

Pitchly

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2014, Pitchly is a SaaS company based in Des Moines, Iowa. It provides a cloud-based platform that enables non-technical users to create data-infused real-time PowerPoint and Word documents linked to internal business data sources. The platform aggregates disparate information, reducing time spent by 93% and eliminating errors, while also allowing custom forms for data population.

Pattern Ag

Series B in 2022
Pattern Ag specializes in soil microbiome analysis to enhance agricultural practices. The company focuses on corn and soybean farms, offering recommendations for optimizing inputs by addressing specific pest and disease pressures. Their precision agriculture platform provides high-resolution mapping of soil DNA, delivering actionable insights to farmers. This helps with decisions related to crop protection, seed selection, and fertility needs, ultimately aiming to increase yield, save costs, and improve overall farm productivity and sustainability.

Metadata

Series B in 2022
Metadata, Inc. develops a marketing data analytics platform designed to streamline demand generation for B2B enterprises. The platform supports scheduling campaign amplification to targeted audiences, provides full profile information for new signups, and auto-generates buyer and user personas while offering access to a database of prospects. It enables prospect segmentation by industry, job function, technology stack, and interests, and monitors signups to accelerate pipeline creation and marketing campaigns by applying automation data to targeted advertising. The company also integrates with marketing automation systems such as Salesforce to reduce manual tasks for marketers. Founded in 2015, Metadata, Inc. is headquartered in California. By compiling historical sales data, the platform creates profiles of ideal customers and orchestrates the acceleration of existing opportunities while targeting new accounts, helping B2B teams optimize demand generation and drive more predictable outcomes.

Fathom

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fathom is a podcast player application that redefines the podcast search and discovery experience through advanced artificial intelligence. It enables users to effortlessly find and explore podcasts by combining a feed of episode previews with powerful search capabilities. The platform allows listeners to type any question and receive audio answers from their favorite podcasters, creating an innovative search engine tailored for podcast content. Additionally, Fathom curates new podcast recommendations based on users' listening habits and interests, ensuring that individuals can easily discover compelling episodes related to topics they care about. By focusing on enhancing the podcast listening experience, Fathom aims to transform how users engage with audio content.

Pattern Ag

Venture Round in 2021
Pattern Ag specializes in soil microbiome analysis to enhance agricultural practices. The company focuses on corn and soybean farms, offering recommendations for optimizing inputs by addressing specific pest and disease pressures. Their precision agriculture platform provides high-resolution mapping of soil DNA, delivering actionable insights to farmers. This helps with decisions related to crop protection, seed selection, and fertility needs, ultimately aiming to increase yield, save costs, and improve overall farm productivity and sustainability.

Everywhere

Seed Round in 2021
Everywhere is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven solutions for gathering and analyzing customer feedback. Its cloud-based platform allows businesses to build surveys and collect insights from various sources, including online reviews, call recordings, and support tickets. By harnessing existing customer data and feedback, Everywhere aims to help organizations predict critical business outcomes such as customer churn and upgrades. The company's tools provide quantitative insights into large volumes of unstructured data, enabling businesses to better understand and organize customer sentiments and experiences.

Contiq

Seed Round in 2020
Contiq, Inc. is a technology company that has developed a buyer intelligence platform tailored for business-to-business sellers. Founded in 2016 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Contiq's platform enhances the sales process by providing actionable recommendations, customizing sales presentation decks, and identifying high-performing content for sales teams. Additionally, it measures the effectiveness of these resources, catering to the needs of sales leaders, enterprise sellers, and marketing and enablement teams. The company leverages artificial intelligence and deep learning to streamline enterprise content discovery and creation, aiming to create innovative and user-friendly software solutions that improve sales effectiveness.

Contiq

Seed Round in 2019
Contiq, Inc. is a technology company that has developed a buyer intelligence platform tailored for business-to-business sellers. Founded in 2016 and based in Sunnyvale, California, Contiq's platform enhances the sales process by providing actionable recommendations, customizing sales presentation decks, and identifying high-performing content for sales teams. Additionally, it measures the effectiveness of these resources, catering to the needs of sales leaders, enterprise sellers, and marketing and enablement teams. The company leverages artificial intelligence and deep learning to streamline enterprise content discovery and creation, aiming to create innovative and user-friendly software solutions that improve sales effectiveness.

OpenFan

Pre Seed Round in 2019
OpenFan is a data analytics company that provides businesses of all sizes with advanced customer intelligence similar to that of major retailers. Its platform specializes in analyzing SKU-level purchasing history from over 1,000 retailers, allowing companies to access valuable consumer insights. By personalizing and segmenting data based on customer spending habits, OpenFan equips enterprises with actionable transactional insights that enhance their understanding of consumer behavior and improve decision-making. Through its innovative technology, OpenFan aims to empower businesses to leverage data effectively in order to drive growth and optimize their strategies.

OpenFan

Seed Round in 2018
OpenFan is a data analytics company that provides businesses of all sizes with advanced customer intelligence similar to that of major retailers. Its platform specializes in analyzing SKU-level purchasing history from over 1,000 retailers, allowing companies to access valuable consumer insights. By personalizing and segmenting data based on customer spending habits, OpenFan equips enterprises with actionable transactional insights that enhance their understanding of consumer behavior and improve decision-making. Through its innovative technology, OpenFan aims to empower businesses to leverage data effectively in order to drive growth and optimize their strategies.

ClearOPS

Pre Seed Round in 2018
ClearOPS, Inc. is a software company that specializes in vendor response management and customer relationship management solutions aimed at enhancing data privacy and security operations. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, ClearOPS offers a platform that streamlines the completion of security questionnaires and audits through automation, ultimately reducing costs and time for businesses. Its software facilitates collaboration in a shared workspace and includes features such as auditing response reports and an end-to-end vendor risk assessment program. ClearOPS leverages Generative A.I. to provide virtual Chief Information Security Officers with market insights and repeatable answers for conducting risk assessments and privacy impact assessments. The company's unique expertise in legal, privacy, and cybersecurity positions it to address the complexities inherent in these areas, helping organizations maintain transparency and informed decision-making regarding their cybersecurity programs.

Illumis

Seed Round in 2018
Illumis is a company that specializes in data access solutions, focusing on the aggregation of public records data from a multitude of sources. It offers a comprehensive platform designed for financial service companies, enabling them to enhance transparency and mitigate risk. Illumis provides essential information and technology services that include risk and compliance monitoring, in-depth research, investigations, and intelligence. By delivering aggregated public data feeds, the company supports clients in finance, politics, and media to make informed decisions based on reliable information.

Fresno Unlimited

Seed Round in 2017
Fresno Unlimited is a digital media and entertainment company based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in using machine learning and proprietary insights to transform the premium content model, aiming to enhance programming quality for consumers. By integrating intelligent content with strategic distribution, Fresno Unlimited utilizes a content analytics engine to create and disseminate entertainment video services across various digital platforms. This approach allows the company to capture and analyze critical data, enabling content creators to derive value for brands within the entertainment sector.

OpenFan

Convertible Note in 2017
OpenFan is a data analytics company that provides businesses of all sizes with advanced customer intelligence similar to that of major retailers. Its platform specializes in analyzing SKU-level purchasing history from over 1,000 retailers, allowing companies to access valuable consumer insights. By personalizing and segmenting data based on customer spending habits, OpenFan equips enterprises with actionable transactional insights that enhance their understanding of consumer behavior and improve decision-making. Through its innovative technology, OpenFan aims to empower businesses to leverage data effectively in order to drive growth and optimize their strategies.

Illumis

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Illumis is a company that specializes in data access solutions, focusing on the aggregation of public records data from a multitude of sources. It offers a comprehensive platform designed for financial service companies, enabling them to enhance transparency and mitigate risk. Illumis provides essential information and technology services that include risk and compliance monitoring, in-depth research, investigations, and intelligence. By delivering aggregated public data feeds, the company supports clients in finance, politics, and media to make informed decisions based on reliable information.

REscour

Seed Round in 2015
REscour Inc. is a commercial real estate data and market intelligence platform that supports real estate professionals in making informed investment decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company specializes in aggregating data from diverse public and private sources, allowing users to collect, organize, and analyze property and market-level information efficiently. Its platform offers tailored insights, enabling users to filter relevant news by location, category, and date, as well as access geo-located articles and upload their own data. By integrating with clients' internal data, REscour creates a comprehensive data warehouse, providing a single source of truth that enhances decision-making and streamlines deal closure. This unique approach equips users with a competitive edge by anticipating their inquiries and delivering real-time, customized recommendations based on their specific portfolios and market preferences.

REscour

Seed Round in 2015
REscour Inc. is a commercial real estate data and market intelligence platform that supports real estate professionals in making informed investment decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company specializes in aggregating data from diverse public and private sources, allowing users to collect, organize, and analyze property and market-level information efficiently. Its platform offers tailored insights, enabling users to filter relevant news by location, category, and date, as well as access geo-located articles and upload their own data. By integrating with clients' internal data, REscour creates a comprehensive data warehouse, providing a single source of truth that enhances decision-making and streamlines deal closure. This unique approach equips users with a competitive edge by anticipating their inquiries and delivering real-time, customized recommendations based on their specific portfolios and market preferences.

REscour

Pre Seed Round in 2015
REscour Inc. is a commercial real estate data and market intelligence platform that supports real estate professionals in making informed investment decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company specializes in aggregating data from diverse public and private sources, allowing users to collect, organize, and analyze property and market-level information efficiently. Its platform offers tailored insights, enabling users to filter relevant news by location, category, and date, as well as access geo-located articles and upload their own data. By integrating with clients' internal data, REscour creates a comprehensive data warehouse, providing a single source of truth that enhances decision-making and streamlines deal closure. This unique approach equips users with a competitive edge by anticipating their inquiries and delivering real-time, customized recommendations based on their specific portfolios and market preferences.

LeadGenius

Series A in 2014
LeadGenius, Inc. is a lead generation and outreach company that serves businesses, development organizations, nonprofits, and researchers in the United States and globally. Founded in 2011 and based in Berkeley, California, LeadGenius offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes customer research to create lead lists, data enrichment to ensure accuracy, and lead qualification to identify viable prospects. The company employs advanced software to streamline the sales process, automating the delivery of accurate contact information and essential data points. This enables organizations to effectively generate, qualify, and convert leads, thus enhancing their overall sales efforts. LeadGenius was previously known as MobileWorks, Inc.

Ramen

Angel Round in 2014
Ramen Inc., established in 2014 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates a software platform designed to streamline customer data management for SaaS teams. The company specializes in collecting, organizing, and analyzing customer information, enabling product managers, marketers, and other professionals to collaborate effectively and build products tailored to user needs. Unlike existing tools built for different functions, Ramen is the first platform purpose-built for product success, consolidating user data and maximizing functionality to enhance overall product management efficiency.

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PokerOS

PokerOS develops AI-powered poker tools, including hardware and software, to support modern poker play. Its platform analyzes hands, provides feedback, and offers tips and strategies for different player types. It also supplies data on current moves and basic strategy, along with guidance on when to apply tactics against various opponents.
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