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.

Jacqui Deegan

Managing Director

Past deals in Advertising

Lumix Advertising

Convertible Note in 2025
Lumix Advertising provides content management and outdoor advertising services focused on smart billboards for delivery drivers. It serves e-bike and moped food delivery contexts with custom billboard advertising, audience planning, campaign measurement, and hyper-local targeting through its software platform. The company aims to help advertisers reach delivery-focused audiences and improve the profitability of their marketing campaigns with targeted, measurable outdoor media.

Potions

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Marketing automation tool to help businesses create high-performing newsletters

Public Bored

Convertible Note in 2024
Public Bored is a company that operates digital billboards, aiming to revitalize urban spaces and make outdoor advertising more engaging. Their platform allows clients to create and display dynamic content, advertisements, and real-time updates, offering flexibility to personalize billboards with unique designs and messages.

Letterhead

Seed Round in 2023
Letterhead develops a marketing automation platform that simplifies the creation, sending, and monetization of email newsletters at scale. It aggregates content from diverse sources, offers monetization tools, tracks revenue, provides audience insights, and streamlines operations for businesses.

Massive

Seed Round in 2021
Massive is a software company offering an application monetization SDK that lets developers earn revenue by having users silently contribute unused computing resources (CPU, GPU, and bandwidth) instead of displaying ads or charging subscriptions. It also operates a residential proxy network platform designed for ethical, compliant web data collection at scale, leveraging a global pool of ethically sourced residential IPs with targeting and rotating capabilities to help businesses gather public data reliably with high success rates and low latency.

Outfit

Seed Round in 2021
Outfit is a marketplace that facilitates connections between brands and content creators to enhance marketing strategies through social media channels. The platform allows brands to book both in-person brand ambassadors and digital influencers, similar to traditional advertising methods but with authentic voices promoting products at physical events or via social media. Outfit provides an end-to-end digital solution that empowers content creators by enabling them to build and monetize their personal brands while assisting global brands with influencer activations.

Outfit

Angel Round in 2020
Outfit is a marketplace that facilitates connections between brands and content creators to enhance marketing strategies through social media channels. The platform allows brands to book both in-person brand ambassadors and digital influencers, similar to traditional advertising methods but with authentic voices promoting products at physical events or via social media. Outfit provides an end-to-end digital solution that empowers content creators by enabling them to build and monetize their personal brands while assisting global brands with influencer activations.

Ozone

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Ozone is a data privacy company that helps users protect and encrypt their personal data while enabling a secondary market for monetizing anonymized data. The company aims to create a decentralized data ownership ecosystem where users, developers, publishers, and advertisers can participate, with advertisers compensating users for their time and attention as people browse the web. Through its platform, individuals can monetize their data directly and control how it is shared with trusted partners, including advertisers and merchants, rather than surrendering it to opaque data markets.

Massive

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Massive is a software company offering an application monetization SDK that lets developers earn revenue by having users silently contribute unused computing resources (CPU, GPU, and bandwidth) instead of displaying ads or charging subscriptions. It also operates a residential proxy network platform designed for ethical, compliant web data collection at scale, leveraging a global pool of ethically sourced residential IPs with targeting and rotating capabilities to help businesses gather public data reliably with high success rates and low latency.

Captiv8

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2014, Captiv8 is a leading influencer marketing platform that connects brands with influencers across various social media platforms. Its AI-driven marketplace helps brands discover, match, and collaborate with influencers based on real-time audience data, optimizing campaigns for maximum impact.

Ampjar

Seed Round in 2019
Ampjar is a community platform designed to empower brands by fostering collaborative relationships that enhance customer engagement. The platform facilitates connections among brands, enabling them to share and promote each other to reach new audiences and drive authentic conversations with potential customers. By creating a closed-loop, peer-to-peer environment, Ampjar allows brands to discover and support one another through various channels, including emails, social media stories, and blog posts. This approach not only amplifies their messages but also cultivates a sense of fulfillment and purpose within the community, as brands and their customers engage in meaningful interactions. Through its innovative model, Ampjar aims to revolutionize the way businesses connect and thrive together.

Ampjar

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Ampjar is a community platform designed to empower brands by fostering collaborative relationships that enhance customer engagement. The platform facilitates connections among brands, enabling them to share and promote each other to reach new audiences and drive authentic conversations with potential customers. By creating a closed-loop, peer-to-peer environment, Ampjar allows brands to discover and support one another through various channels, including emails, social media stories, and blog posts. This approach not only amplifies their messages but also cultivates a sense of fulfillment and purpose within the community, as brands and their customers engage in meaningful interactions. Through its innovative model, Ampjar aims to revolutionize the way businesses connect and thrive together.

Massive

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Massive is a software company offering an application monetization SDK that lets developers earn revenue by having users silently contribute unused computing resources (CPU, GPU, and bandwidth) instead of displaying ads or charging subscriptions. It also operates a residential proxy network platform designed for ethical, compliant web data collection at scale, leveraging a global pool of ethically sourced residential IPs with targeting and rotating capabilities to help businesses gather public data reliably with high success rates and low latency.

BeeRoll

Seed Round in 2018
BeeRoll develops a brand marketing platform that connects businesses with consumers to create authentic video advertisement stories. Leveraging artificial intelligence, the platform sources videos tailored to diverse audiences and social trends, enabling brands to efficiently produce engaging content.

BeeRoll

Pre Seed Round in 2017
BeeRoll develops a brand marketing platform that connects businesses with consumers to create authentic video advertisement stories. Leveraging artificial intelligence, the platform sources videos tailored to diverse audiences and social trends, enabling brands to efficiently produce engaging content.

Votion

Seed Round in 2016
Votion is a SaaS company that specializes in enhancing customer engagement for marketing teams through its innovative audience and fan engagement platform. The platform is designed to help businesses effectively grow their email lists and boost customer interaction by facilitating online interactive campaigns, content marketing, and targeted advertisements. By leveraging these tools, Votion enables organizations to foster deeper connections with their audiences and ultimately drive revenue growth.

Wrapify

Convertible Note in 2016
Wrapify, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that operates a crowdsourced advertising platform connecting drivers with brands to facilitate on-vehicle advertising campaigns. Founded in 2015, Wrapify allows drivers to earn additional income by wrapping their vehicles in advertisements, transforming everyday commutes into mobile marketing opportunities. The platform combines the effectiveness of out-of-home advertising with the scalability and accountability of digital marketing, enabling brands to reach diverse audiences and measure campaign performance through real-time analytics. With over 200,000 drivers participating in the program, Wrapify supports a wide range of Fortune 500 companies in executing and managing their advertising initiatives across various screens and channels, enhancing brand awareness and consumer engagement.

TidyMarketer

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Marketing has become really complex. Marketing teams today run multiple integrated programs ranging from social media, to SEO, website optimization, marketing automation, retargeting, PR, events and influencer programs, among many more. TidyMktr helps planning, coordinating and communicating these programs a breeze. MEDIA PLANNING Loaded with benchmarks and automatic formulas, their unique Media Plan Builder saves you time and makes you look way more professional. CAMPAIGN CALENDAR Their campaign calendar was designed by and for marketers like you, so you can easily coordinate all your marketing programs in one easy to use, easy to share interface. TEAM COMMUNICATION Elevate your work by easily sharing a professional looking Marketing Program Plan with your team, executives, sales and external stakeholders. INTEGRATIONS Connect TidyMktr to the services you already use for easier planning and coordination.

Wrapify

Convertible Note in 2015
Wrapify, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that operates a crowdsourced advertising platform connecting drivers with brands to facilitate on-vehicle advertising campaigns. Founded in 2015, Wrapify allows drivers to earn additional income by wrapping their vehicles in advertisements, transforming everyday commutes into mobile marketing opportunities. The platform combines the effectiveness of out-of-home advertising with the scalability and accountability of digital marketing, enabling brands to reach diverse audiences and measure campaign performance through real-time analytics. With over 200,000 drivers participating in the program, Wrapify supports a wide range of Fortune 500 companies in executing and managing their advertising initiatives across various screens and channels, enhancing brand awareness and consumer engagement.

Captiv8

Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2014, Captiv8 is a leading influencer marketing platform that connects brands with influencers across various social media platforms. Its AI-driven marketplace helps brands discover, match, and collaborate with influencers based on real-time audience data, optimizing campaigns for maximum impact.

Videopixie

Seed Round in 2015
Videopixie is an online marketplace that connects users with video production professionals, offering services across various price points to accommodate different budgets. The platform caters to a diverse clientele, including retailers who require weekly product videos, game companies looking to create national television trailers from in-game footage, and newlyweds who wish to edit extensive wedding footage into concise highlights. By facilitating connections between clients and top video professionals, Videopixie streamlines the video production process for a wide array of projects, ensuring quality and efficiency.

Wrapify

Seed Round in 2015
Wrapify, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that operates a crowdsourced advertising platform connecting drivers with brands to facilitate on-vehicle advertising campaigns. Founded in 2015, Wrapify allows drivers to earn additional income by wrapping their vehicles in advertisements, transforming everyday commutes into mobile marketing opportunities. The platform combines the effectiveness of out-of-home advertising with the scalability and accountability of digital marketing, enabling brands to reach diverse audiences and measure campaign performance through real-time analytics. With over 200,000 drivers participating in the program, Wrapify supports a wide range of Fortune 500 companies in executing and managing their advertising initiatives across various screens and channels, enhancing brand awareness and consumer engagement.

Videopixie

Venture Round in 2014
Videopixie is an online marketplace that connects users with video production professionals, offering services across various price points to accommodate different budgets. The platform caters to a diverse clientele, including retailers who require weekly product videos, game companies looking to create national television trailers from in-game footage, and newlyweds who wish to edit extensive wedding footage into concise highlights. By facilitating connections between clients and top video professionals, Videopixie streamlines the video production process for a wide array of projects, ensuring quality and efficiency.

AdStage

Seed Round in 2013
AdStage, Inc. is a cloud-based advertisement management platform based in San Francisco, California, that empowers advertisers to create, launch, and manage customized campaigns across multiple social networks. Established in 2012, the platform allows marketers to automate tasks, analyze, and optimize advertisement campaigns by providing comprehensive dashboards and web reports that assess performance. Users can schedule campaign actions, set time zones, and customize date ranges to gain deeper insights into their campaigns. The platform serves as a trusted resource for paid marketers across various industries, facilitating closed-loop reporting and workflow automation to enhance return on ad spend and streamline campaign optimization. AdStage operates as a subsidiary of TapClicks, Inc.

FusionAds.ai

Today launching marketing campaigns is complex, slow, and expensive - and it just got worse with the explosion of AI tools and cookie removal. While these tools create irresistible opportunities, they add more complexity, more fragmentation, and collaboration is harder. It's like trying to complete a jigsaw puzzle with pieces that just don't fit together. That's what FusionOS.ai is here to solve as the world's first AI-powered Marketing Operating System. FusionOS stitches together hundreds of AI Marketing technology tools so marketers can ideate, generate creatives, launch and then optimize campaigns simpler, faster, and collaboratively … what took 50+ days in the past can now be sent live on the SAME DAY. Our tools not only speed things up but Fusion maximizes engagement with our clients target audience through AI generated creatives improving return on ad spend and driving revenue.

Streamfog

Streamfog is a technology company that specializes in augmented reality (AR) advertising for live video streams. Its platform enables streamers to integrate interactive 3D alerts into their broadcasts and brands to display immersive AR advertisements within those streams, enhancing viewer engagement and transforming traditional ad tech. Unlike conventional ad breaks, Streamfog's AR ads are seamlessly placed within the content, creating a less intrusive and more effective advertising experience.
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