Launch Capital

WHO WE ARE

In 2008, Elon Boms, with investors Karen Pritzker and Michael Vlock, helped build the seed investing industry with the introduction of LaunchCapital. At the time, the seed investment market was small and fragmented. So LaunchCapital was founded with a mission to help entrepreneurs gain quick access to seed capital and mentorship. Over the past decade, LaunchCapital is proud to have invested in over 200 companies that are reinventing industries across the nation.

LaunchCapital is focused on entrepreneurs at the seed stage. With a permanent base of capital, the question for us isn’t how you get to the next metric that VCs want to hear, it’s how you build a great business.

OUR INVESTMENTS

Typically we invest when teams are raising their first or second round of institutional capital. From an idea on paper to a post-seed business, we’re game to get involved.

For every seed investment we make, we plan to make significant follow-on investments in exceptional companies as they continue growth. Our Growth Fund both supports our seed investments and makes investments in great companies we meet at later stages of development.

When we invest, we keep true to the following principles:

• We enable great people to accomplish great things

• We are industry-agnostic

• We encourage an unwavering commitment to milestones

• We appreciate capital-efficient companies

• We look for innovative thinkers and creative solutions

• We focus on developing entrepreneurs as well as businesses

• We believe that the entrepreneur is at the center of everything