LaunchCapital
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| Industry | Venture Capital |
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| Founder 👔 | Karen Pritzker, Michael Vlock, Elon Boms |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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LaunchCapital is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed investments to early stage startup companies.[1] The company is part of the Pritzker-Vlock Family Office. As a family office, the company have the option to not deploy funds according to short-term capital cycles. LaunchCapital was founded in 2008 and has offices in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and New Haven. [2]
History[edit]
Founded by Karen Pritzker, Michael Vlock, and Elon Boms in 2008, LaunchCapital invests in early stage companies neglected by traditional venture capital outfits that are looking to invest in more mature companies. The firm makes investments of $125,000 on average in startups that typically haven’t raised a first round of venture capital.[3] In 2017, the Pritzker-Vlock Family Office announced additional funding allocation to its venture arm in addition to staffing expansions.
People[edit]
Elon Boms: Elon co-founded LaunchCapital in January 2008. He is a lecturer at the Yale School of Management on private equity and venture capital. [4]
Cliff Sirlin: Managing Director at LaunchCapital. Prior to joining LaunchCapital in 2017, Cliff was the co-founder of mdenergy (sold to EnerNOC[5]), Cleaner Options (sold to Zoots),[6] and Domino Media Group. [7]
Woody Benson: Executive in Residence at Bentley University, Woody’s has been named Mass Telecom CEO of the Year and Top 50 VC by AlwaysOn Media.[8] He took public MCK Communications (over $1B market capitalization[9]) and the first investor of LogMeIn (over $5B market capitalization[10]). [11][12]
David Shen: Dave was an early employee at Yahoo! Dave also designed Apple’s first ergonomic keyboard, first digital camera, and the first 17-inch multimedia monitor.[13]
Investments[edit]
LaunchCapital has invested in more than 200 companies since its founding and is industry agnostic. LaunchCapital’s seed investments and the Pritzker/Vlock Family Office’s growth investments include Snap, Spotify, Tripping.com,[14]Gelesis, Adimab, Pico Trading, Localytics, EAT Club, Parsagen Diagnostics, Mayvenn, Life360[15], YourMechanic, ShopTalk, EquityZen, [16]Impact Health, Distributed, Mendel.ai,[17] REsurety, Freight Farms, Minibar, Worklete, Karmic Labs, Seven Oaks Biosystems, Zagster, Promoboxx, Repsly,[18] and others.[19]
References[edit]
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- ↑ "LaunchCapital LLC: Private Company Information - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ↑ "Pritzker/Vlock Family Office & Co-Founder Elon Boms Announce Increased Investment in LaunchCapital". Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "LaunchCapital Opens To Seed Startups, Describes Unique Investment Approach | Xconomy". Xconomy. 2009-01-20. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ↑ "Community Profiles". Yale School of Management. 2015-03-24. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "Energy efficiency firm EnerNoc buys MDEnergy for $7.9 million". CNET. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ Tarkenton, Fran (1999-04-07). What Losing Taught Me About Winning: The Ultimate Guide for Success in Small and Home-Based Business. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780684838793. Search this book on
- ↑ Brooke, Eliza. "Domino Magazine Re-Launches As A Digital, Shoppable Publication | TechCrunch". Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "Corporate Immersion | Bentley University". www.bentley.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "MCK COMMUNICATIONS INC (MCKC) IPO". NASDAQ.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "LOGM : Summary for LogMeIn, Inc. - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "The Bloomberg Baystate Business Hour: VC and Madoff". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "LaunchCapital's Woody Benson: A Storied History in the Tech Industry". VentureFizz. 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "David Shen Ventures, LLC : Advisor for Internet Startups, Internet Entrepreneurs, Web Startups, Web Entrepreneurs, Visual Design, Interaction Design, User Research, Product Strategy and Development, Online Advertising Strategy and Development". www.davidshenventures.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ Lawler, Ryan. "To Connect Campaigners With Housing, Tripping Launches Sites For Obama And Romney Volunteers | TechCrunch". Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ Kim, Ryan (2011-11-03). "Location safety app Life360 surges past 5M families". gigaom.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
- ↑ Loizos, Connie. "The secondary marketplace EquityZen just landed $3 million in funding | TechCrunch". Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ Griffith, Erin. "Term Sheet -- Tuesday, June 27". Fortune. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "Repsly Raises $1.6M as Startup Becomes Cash-Flow Positive". BostInno. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ↑ "LaunchCapital | crunchbase". www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
