| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.03.2026 | TopMail Wins Best in Show at LAUNCH Festival 2026, Secures Investment from LAUNCH Fund | TopMail, an unlimited email marketing platform for $20/month, won Best in Show at Jason Calacanis's LAUNCH Festival 2026, and secured backing from LAUNCH Fund. TopMail features an AI agent and developer API built for coding agents like Clau... |
| 10.12.2025 | Autolane: $7.4 Million Raised To Expand Autonomous Vehicle Infrastructure Across Simon Centers | Autolane has secured $7.4 million in new funding co-led by Draper Associates and Hyperplane, marking a significant step in the company’s push to scale its curbside operating system across major retail environments. Additional participation ... |
| 24.11.2025 | Scale Social AI Raises $1.3M to Boost Local Marketing via Customer Content | Scale Social AI, a marketing technology pioneer that turns authentic customer content into localized advertising, announced today it has raised $1.3 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by LAUNCH, an early-stage venture fund, and ... |
| 14.08.2023 | The 23 most important VCs in the Rocky Mountain region, according to other VCs | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
The Rocky Mountains are luring venture capitalists from tech hubs like Silicon Valley and New York.
They're finding promising startups in e... |
| 30.06.2023 | Seed 75: The best seed VC firms for founders looking to raise money in 2023 | From right to left: Miriam Rivera of Ulu Ventures, Maelle Gavet of Techstars, Marlon Nichols of MaC Venture Capital, David Tisch of BoxGroup, Christine Tsai of 500 Global, Saeed Amidi of Plug and Play Ulu Ventures, Techstars, MaC Venture Ca... |
| 05.07.2022 | Indian startup accelerator to launch new $100m seed fund | InvestmentsNewsStartups
Jenina Ibañez · 1d ago · 1 min readIndian startup accelerator to launch new $100m seed fund
Indian startup accelerator Axilor Ventures has announced a new US$100 million seed fund for early-stage technology companies... |
| 22.06.2021 | IREIT Global : Addendum To Launch Of Equity Fund Raising To Raise Gross Proceeds Of Approximately $126.7 Million | Addendum To Launch Of Equity Fund Raising To Raise Gross Proceeds Of Approximately $126.7 Million
Announcement Title General Announcement
Date & Time of Broadcast Jun 22, 2021 12:30
Status New
Announcement Sub Title ADDENDUM TO LAUNCH O... |
| 11.03.2021 | Scener and HBO Max will host remote live watch party for Zack Snyder’s Justice League | Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream.
Scener and HBO Max will host a remote live watch party for director Zack Snyder’s new cut of Justice League on March ... |
| 11.03.2021 | Scener and HBO Max will host remote live watch party for Zack Snyder’s Justice League | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Scener and HBO Max will host a remote live watch ... |
| 11.01.2021 | Sneaker enthusiast group SoleSavy raises $2M, setting the stage for a community-driven commerce boom | SoleSavy, a community built around buying hot sneakers and related items that are increasingly hard to acquire at retail, raised $2 million in a round that closed late last year. SoleSavy is a group of communities that is currently mostly h... |
| 01.10.2020 | Scener raises $2.1 million for virtual theater parties that ease social isolation | Scener has raised $2.1 million for its co-watching virtual theater platform, which lets people watch movies together remotely. The Seattle company has experienced massive growth since the onset of the pandemic, with almost half a million ac... |
| 01.10.2020 | Scener raises $2.1 million for virtual theater parties that ease social isolation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Scener has raised $2.1 million for its co-watchin... |
| 02.09.2019 | Cambridgeshire Pension Fund backs £100m Foresight fund launch | London-based private equity firm Foresight Group has announced the launch of a £100m fund focused on the East of Englan |
| 20.05.2019 | Shoot My Travel attracts $1.1 million investment | Facebook
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| 31.01.2018 | I Don't Hate Cryptocurrency, But... | Jason Calacanis is an angel investor in 150 startups including Uber, robinhood, Abra, thumbtack, Wealthfront and Talla. He's also the author of ANGEL.
"If you are right, that 90 percent of crypto projects are scams or incompetent, what... |
| 21.10.2016 | Launch of Dementia Discovery Fund New Fund Raises $100 Million to Deliver Novel Approaches to Treatment of Dementia | London, 21 October 2015, The Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF), an innovative new global investment fund to support discovery and development of novel dementia treatments has launched, raising $100 Million from investors including the UK Govern... |
| 02.10.2015 | Here are the most active LA-based investors in 2015 | Upfront Ventures leads with 18 investments, followed by Wavemaker Partners and Tech Coast Angels
(Vator Splash LA will be taking place on October 15. Speakers will include Adam Goldenberg Founder & CEO of JustFab; Brian Lee. Co-Founder ... |
| 01.10.2015 | Paddy Cosgrave responds to Jason Calacanis’ accusations: Web Summit is not a scam | Updated Oct. 2 with additional reaction from Jason Calacanis and Tech.eu.
A quiet argument about the ethics of the Dublin-based Web Summit, one of tech’s fastest-growing events, has finally broken into full view thanks to a blistering respo... |
| 01.10.2015 | Paddy Cosgrave responds to Jason Calacanis’ accusations: Web Summit is not a scam | Updated Oct. 2 with additional reaction from Jason Calacanis and Tech.eu.
A quiet argument about the ethics of the Dublin-based Web Summit, one of tech’s fastest-growing events, has finally broken into full view thanks to a blistering respo... |
| 15.08.2015 | Apply for IBM’s SmartCamp Pitch Competition in Austin | IBM will be kicking off its annual startup pitch competition called SmartCamp next month. |
| 19.11.2014 | Global Entrepreneurship Week: Events and Special Offers | It's Global Entrepreneurship Week! This is the world's largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch the startups that bring ideas to life. It is amazing to know that across 140 countries, 25,000 different organizations ... |
| 27.02.2014 | Awards and Excitement Abound as LAUNCH Festival Winners Announced | San Francisco has been packed full of tech startups, products, services, and gifted entrepreneurs all week so far. How is that any different from a normal day in the Bay Area? It’s different because LAUNCH Festival was happening.
LAUNCH.co’... |
| 26.02.2014 | Ramen Raises Cash for Crowdfunding and Collaboration Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ramen is heating up. No, not the meal well known to hungry entrepreneurs and hackers, but a Boulder, CO-based startup of the same name.
Ramen, which is just a few months old a... |
| 26.02.2014 | YouTube is Not a Sweatshop—It’s Actually a Goldmine, and Here’s Why | (Image via Tumblr user Eric Fleischauer)
Earlier this month, Betabeat writers were surprised to learn that popular YouTube blogger Olga Kay was regularly churning out 20 or more videos a week—drawing comparisons of her work schedule to that... |
| 27.01.2014 | Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo Is Reborn As Mobile News App Inside | Jason Calacanis is getting back into the news business with a new app called Inside, which highlights and summarizes the top news stories.
Although Calacanis has been involved in several startups and startup events (including the TechCrunch... |
| 24.09.2013 |
Calacanis Debuts LAUNCH Fund I To Back 100 Companies
| Jason Calacanis, the serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and conference organizer, announced Tuesday morning that it has closed his first, formal angel investing fund, The LAUNCH Fund I. Calacanis said the fund will invest $100-$250K in 50... |
| 26.08.2013 | Best Tech Events This Week (Decoded Fashion, Silicon Harlem Summer Soiree, Brooklyn Tech, Entrepreneurs Roundtable, Girl Geek Dinner, Civic Hack Night) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder and CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can reach him at gary [at] garysgu... |
| 21.08.2013 | Maker Studios In Deal To Buy Blip As It Works To Reach More Screens | YouTube multichannel network Maker Studios has agreed in principle to acquire long-running video distribution network Blip. While the deal hasn’t closed yet and there are a number of issues to be worked out, it would bring more content unde... |
| 02.07.2013 | Fun and Games (and Science) Make For Perfect Pitch | Yep, the hair was memorable.
Eric Gradman's perky orange mohawk signaled that the edtech business pitch he and his colleague, Brent Bushnell, were going to do would be a different twist on this year's LAUNCH Education & Kids event, an e... |
| 03.06.2013 | Launch founder Jason Calacanis raising $10 million venture fund | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The playbook looks strangely familiar now: Start ... |
| 01.05.2013 | Google Fiber Spurs Telcos to Action, but Monopoly Fears Linger | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Google’s foray into offering super-fast Internet and TV service sure looks like the kind of thing that could grow into a vertical monopoly. But the reactions of established se... |
| 24.04.2013 | Booting Up: Twitter Is Probably Working On Two-Step Authentication | WhatsApp phone. (Photo: Nokia/BBC)
Twitter is reportedly working two-step authentication. Hopefully that means we don’t have to write “Look who got hacked!” stories anymore. [Wired]
Apple’s profits dipped 18 percent but were buoyed by the s... |
| 19.04.2013 | The Genius Of Google Fiber | As Google picks up its pace on rolling out fiber Internet service – announcing Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah in the past 10 days – one has to admire the sheer hubris of what it’s doing. Just as in mobile, Google is forcing the industry to ... |
| 17.04.2013 | Setting things straight about the AppGratis business model | Simon Dawlat is the CEO and founder of AppGratis, whose app discovery app was pulled from the app store by Apple.
Allow me to jump right into this by saying that yes, we have created a business while solving a problem.
And that last time we... |
| 17.04.2013 | Setting things straight about the AppGratis business model | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Simon Dawlat is the CEO and founder of AppGratis, whose app discovery app was pulled from the app store by Apple.
Allow me to jump righ... |
| 16.01.2013 | Series A crunch: fear not, Baltimore, for your startup shouldn’t be making something ‘unimportant or unproven’ | Talk of a Series A crunch in Silicon Valley shook the startup world in late 2012.
As Technically Baltimore reported at the time, the furor around any kind of investment crunch was raised as startups previously rolling in fat stacks — thanks... |
| 04.01.2013 | Chromebooks needed at Patterson Park Charter School // 12 startups to watch this year // Speaker guidelines for Ignite Baltimore 12 [Links] | Mrs. Shaw needs Chromebooks at Patterson Park Charter Sch 327 [Donors Choose]: “Currently, we have 30 computers that must be shared by over 200 students … These Chromebooks would allow our class to become one of the first 1:1 language arts ... |
| 29.12.2012 | Unnatural Acts And The Rise Of Mobile | Editor’s note: Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of recently funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch.
As all predatory, or formerly predatory, men and women know, if you’re at a party and stil... |
| 13.09.2012 | UpTo helps you share tomorrow so you can do more today | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
DETROIT — If Facebook is about what you did yesterday, and Twitter is about what you’re doing right now, UpTo is about what you’re plan... |
| 13.09.2012 | UpTo helps you share tomorrow so you can do more today | DETROIT — If Facebook is about what you did yesterday, and Twitter is about what you’re doing right now, UpTo is about what you’re planning to do tomorrow — and sharing with those you actually know.
UpTo is a social network based on your ca... |
| 20.06.2012 | Education Technology Startups Compete at LAUNCH Event | Last week’s Launch event in Mountain View, California drew a crowd of a couple hundred and surfaced some wonderful tools. Thirty-one companies showed their stuff on stage. Many of these tools were aimed at kids at home—just the kind of appl... |
| 08.05.2012 | Credictive Wants To Be The IMDB For Creative Content And People | Credictive, which just went into invite-only beta, wants to solve the problem of crediting who did what online. It’s pitched as an “IMDB for creative content” where people who create videos or music or other kinds of content or just appear ... |
| 18.04.2012 | Backed With $1.5M, CircleUp Aims To Be The AngelList For Consumer And Retail Startups | The funding environment for technology-focused startups these days is getting to be a bit ridiculous, so some tech industry folks may need to use their imaginations for a second to understand this concept. There are a lot of companies out t... |
| 17.04.2012 | A Sign Of The Hiring-pocalypse | Oh San Francisco, has it really come to this?
Are we now at the point where the disheveled men on street corners no longer ask for change, but rather developers? Apparently so.
I walked out of the TechCrunch offices yesterday afternoon and ... |
| 16.03.2012 | Couple Street: A Social Network for Two | Last week at the Launch Festival, NYC-based Couple Street (Couple St.) unveiled the first social network for only two people. Couple Street allows couples to stay connected, organize their common life, and enjoy private and intimate communi... |
| 08.03.2012 | Two new tools make sure your employees’ opinions are heard | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
People used to give their employers feedback by s... |
| 08.03.2012 | Two new tools make sure your employees’ opinions are heard | People used to give their employers feedback by shoving slips of paper into wooden suggestion boxes. Technology has moved those suggestions boxes online where employees can more effectively have their voices heard. Happiily and 15Five are t... |
| 07.03.2012 | Alltuition updates the financial aid process, helps you pay for college | Alltuition.com launched today at the Launch conference in San Francisco, hoping to to take make the federal financial aid process more user friendly. The company helps you understand college tuition costs and payment options.
Chances are if... |
| 07.03.2012 | Alltuition updates the financial aid process, helps you pay for college | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Alltuition.com launched today at the Launch confe... |
| - | LAUNCH Festival faz concurso para distribuir ingressos de graça | O festival LAUNCH, que acontecerá em San Francisco do dia 4 ao dia 6 de março em parceria com o Startup Weekend, está fazendo um concurso para distribuir 50 ingressos (cada um vale US$ 395). “Seja parte da audiência que verá, ao vivo, o lan... |
