Tagged: launch festival

June 18, 2019 @ 2:30 am By JD Alois  |  

In partnership with the NSW Government, Sydney Launch Festival opens this week to give NSW startups a chance to pitch their startups t to a global audience and learn from the world’s top startup founders and investors. Launch Festival is the creation of Jason Calacanis…. Read More

May 19, 2018 @ 12:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic, a mission driven investment crowdfunding platform that enables companies to raise money by selling securities including initial coin offerings, has provided an update on their progress. Shared on the 2 year anniversary of when Reg CF became actionable, Republic shares the following stats: To… Read More

June 6, 2017 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

SeedInvest Announces Live Crowdfunding to take place at eMERGE Americas Several weeks back, Jason Calacanis held his annual LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco. As part of the event, live crowdfunding was added to the program for the first time. In February, SeedInvest had announced it… Read More

April 7, 2017 @ 1:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

LAUNCH Festival, a two-day event hosted by Jason Calacanis, kicked off yesterday with a new twist. Live crowdfunding was offered for a handful of companies that were simultaneously listed on the SeedInvest crowdfunding platform.  These companies each delivered a 3 minute explanatory pitch to a… Read More

April 5, 2017 @ 12:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

LAUNCH Festival takes place later this week and the first batch of participating companies have been released. LAUNCH, the creation of Jason Calacanis, has partnered with SeedInvest to offer live investment crowdfunding during the event.  Reportedly there will be an audience of over 12,000 individuals… Read More

February 16, 2017 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform, has revealed a new partnership with Jason Calacanis’ Launch Festival. Launch is said to be the largest startup event in the United States. Past headliners at Launch have included Mark Cuban, Paul Graham, Evan Williams, and Yves Behar. Calacanis is… Read More

December 19, 2016 @ 6:47 am By Erin Hobey  |  

NOW Money (NOW), the new remittance app for the unbanked population of the UAE, has won IBM’s SmartCamp competition in Dubai. The competition which took place at the Google Tech Incubator Astrolabs invites early-stage start-up businesses to pitch and win a place at the World’s largest… Read More

March 7, 2015 @ 10:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Rocketbook is the easiest way for people who prefer handwritten notes to also enjoy the ease and convenience of organized cloud storage. Joe Lemay, the CEO of Rocket Innovations, announced his newest product yesterday at Launch Festival in San Francisco, California. Rocketbook went live on… Read More

April 18, 2014 @ 7:43 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fresh from winning the LAUNCH Festival Contest “You Dream It, We Build” app design contest and HBS Venture Corporation’s “Most Innovative” Award,  Flyr has landed their equity crowdfunding campaign on Wefunder.  To date, their campaign has raised $123,000 of its targeted $450K. Minimum investment booking… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 1:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

 Ice House, a global design and development firm today announced its official North American debut and its partnership with LAUNCH Festival (San Francisco, Feb 24-26) in the $50,000 ‘You Dream It, We Build It’ competition.  Ice House is the global design and development services specialist in applied mobile… Read More

February 7, 2014 @ 7:45 am By JD Alois  |  

The best place to launch your startup, raise money and learn about starting a company. 40 companies will launch for the first time (1.0 Track) or launch new products (2.0 Track) and compete for titles like Best Design, Best Technology and Best Overall with 8,000… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 12:21 pm By Upstart Business Journal  |  

Jason Calacanis, the founder of Mahalo and Weblogs, took some time from preparing for this week’s Launch Festival, the startup pitchfest he throws in San Francisco, to talk about that and a number of topics. This is his biggest show in six years of doing… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 2:58 am By VentureBeat  |  

The Launch festival is a three-ring circus. Fifty startups are here presenting on the main stage, 250 startups are in the demo pit, and it’s got panel discussions with influencers from the tech community, not to mention nearly 6,000 registered attendees. To help sort through the… Read More