Incubated over

6000

ENTREPRENUERS

Creating more than

3800

JOBS

Collectively raising

$2.5B

IN FUNDING

Entrepreneurs from

100+

COUNTRIES

Our Top Alumni Companies

Since 2012, Launch has established itself as  Western Canada’s leading entrepreneurship facility that helps international and Canadian founders build their businesses through education, mentorship, lean metrics and networking opportunities. Our alumni consist of public companies, fintech giants, pioneers in robotics and many others.

Thinkific

Thinkific is all-in-one platform that helps you easily create, market & sell your own online courses.

SaaS/eLearning

Later

With over 2 million global users, Later is the leading visual marketing platform that allows you to plan, schedule, publish, and measure the results of your instagram and social media posts.

SaaS

Flutterwave

Africa’s most valuable startup provides a payment infrastructure for global merchants and payment service providers across the continent.

FinTech

Koho

A quickly scaling Fintech that helps Canadians gain control over their money with a no-fee spending and savings account.

FinTech

Koho

Klue is a competitive intelligence platform that enables product marketers to collect, curate, and deliver competitive intelligence across every department of every business.

FinTech

Covalent

Covalent provides a unified API bringing visibility to billions of blockchain data points, solving the huge infrastructure problems inhibiting blockchain adoption.

Blockchain

Battlefy

Battlefy is the simplest way to start, manage, and find esports tournaments.

eSports

Wealthbar

Acquired by CI Financial, Wealthbar is Canada’s first online portfolio management services bringing together technology, financial advice and portfolio management.

FinTech

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Lendful is an online consumer lending platform for Canadian consumers, offering a better way to borrow.

FinTech

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Finn AI builds AI-Powered virtual assistants for banks and credit unions to improve their digital customer experience.

AI/FinTech

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Farmcrowdy is a global Agritech company focused on solving deficiencies in the food value chain.

AgriTech

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Sendbox provides infrastructure for shipping and escrow payments to merchants and customers in North America, Europe and Africa, who participate in e-commerce on social platforms.

eCommerce

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Uploadcare provides companies with simple, powerful, developer-friendly building blocks to handle file uploading, processing, and delivery.

SaaS

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Redefining video on connected devices. VDO.AI is a video supporting platform that supports web publishers obtain the potential of video content and advertising.

AI

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Bloombase is the intelligent storage firewall company. Bloombase solutions help organizations mitigate data leakage threats and meet data privacy regulatory compliance requirements easily and cost-effectively.

Cyber Security

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Local Adventures gather local experts and certified professionals to deliver the most unique adventure travel experiences Latin America has to offer.

OTA/AI

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Canada’s leading coding bootcamp. Whether it’s a full-time bootcamp or a part-time program, Lighthouse Labs offers coding education from newbie to professional developer.

eLearning

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smartARM develops AI-powered bionic hands for amputees, that can see and learn. Democratizing bionics for all.

Robotics/AI

What They Are Saying

sean languedoc

If those bricks could talk! SOOOO many great companies started there thanks to you Alex Chuang Ray Walia Boris Wertz. You transformed the economy of BC, not just Vancouver/Gastown.

Sean Languedoc, Founder, CEO Global Talent Accelerator
Khurram Virani

Hands down, Launch Academy is THE tech startup hub of Western Canada, if not all of Canada. Space, mentorship, entrepreneurship education, tech education, and accelerators are just some of the offerings and benefits of being in the space. Happy to be a part of it!

Khurram Virani , Co-founder, Lighthouse Labs
Jacqueline Kim Perez

This is where my journey all began in the tech space. I am so grateful to Ray Walia, Alex Chuang, and the team at Launch for helping me become the leader I am today. The warm welcomes and people that I met there are the closest gang I’ve known for 6 years now. 

Jacqueline Kim Perez, Head of Operations & Token Marketing, Covalent

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