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What does Launch NY invest in?
Launch NY invests most often at Venture and Seed (71% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Impact, Underserved and Social Impact.
Launch NY highlights
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9 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Seed: 71% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 32 rounds, median $500K
What they do
Upstate New York's most active nonprofit seed fund.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- ImpactUnderservedSocial Impact
- Based in
- Buffalo, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first73 appearances
- 2026
6 rounds
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- 2025
13 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2024
9 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Aug
- Jul
- May
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- 2023
11 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- May
- May
- Mar
- Mar
- 2022
12 rounds
- Dec
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
LKLindsay Karas StencelManager of limited liability company that serves as general partner of the limited partnershipiFiling they signed
MLMarnie LavigneManager of limited liability company that serves as general partner of the limited partnershipiFiling they signed
MLMarnie LaVigne, PhDExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 6 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
39 of 60 we have independently watched raise
3aminnovationsAgri-trakAirexpertAzunafreshBettermyndBraidbabesBridgegreenupcycleCarbontostoneCircuitclinicalCombined-energiesCyrismaDentiteDiademcapitalDimensionalenergyDimienEaglehawkEcolectroEmpeqExostellarFartherfarmsFerric-contrastForbitterforworseFretzealotHeatinverseHelixintelMemoryfoxNordetectNudgemoneyOgnomyPostprocessProlivioRe-nubleSayhiiSelectfiSign-speakTelosairTheirstoryVerivendVpgmedicalAccutheranosticsAdaptivewavesAnagheatelierAvantguardincAviateaudioBreezi-proCahillresourcesCaretechhumanCasanacareDipitbrandDonate TodayEatmeicecreamEdenesqueEnergyguardGcliprowGetdailyagapeGetwellconnectedGrowarbolHelloplaygroundJecabarJoinnaraand 17 more
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.