Launch Alumni Network
Incubated over
6000
ENTREPRENEURS
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 is all-in-one platform that helps you easily create, market & sell your own online courses.
SaaS/eLearning
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
Africa’s most valuable startup provides a payment infrastructure for global merchants and payment service providers across the continent.
FinTech
A quickly scaling Fintech that helps Canadians gain control over their money with a no-fee spending and savings account.
FinTech
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 provides a unified API bringing visibility to billions of blockchain data points, solving the huge infrastructure problems inhibiting blockchain adoption.
Blockchain
Acquired by CI Financial, Wealthbar is Canada’s first online portfolio management services bringing together technology, financial advice and portfolio management.
FinTech
Lendful is an online consumer lending platform for Canadian consumers, offering a better way to borrow.
FinTech
Finn AI builds AI-Powered virtual assistants for banks and credit unions to improve their digital customer experience.
AI/FinTech
Farmcrowdy is a global Agritech company focused on solving deficiencies in the food value chain.
AgriTech
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
Uploadcare provides companies with simple, powerful, developer-friendly building blocks to handle file uploading, processing, and delivery.
SaaS
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
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
Local Adventures gather local experts and certified professionals to deliver the most unique adventure travel experiences Latin America has to offer.
OTA/AI
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
smartARM develops AI-powered bionic hands for amputees, that can see and learn. Democratizing bionics for all.
Robotics/AI
What They Are Saying
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.
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!
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.