LaunchBay Capital
Growth equityLondon · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 14 people tracked
Investment thesis
LaunchBay Capital aims to foster innovation and liquidity in the technology space. It operates a series of secondary investment funds and co-investment vehicles, providing capital and deal-making expertise to growth-stage technology companies. The firm positions itself as an actively managed player specializing in secondary transactions.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 14 people
from the firm's website & curated & public directories
What they invest in
from 18 of 27 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×12Enterprise Software ×9Cloud Computing ×5Fintech ×5SaaS ×5Crypto & Web3 ×3Deep Tech ×3Developer Tools ×3
HQs:United States×15Canada×1United Kingdom×1Ireland×1Sweden×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 17 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×73 founders×34+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 20 founders with education data
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×3Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT) ×2Trinity College Dublin ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 23 founders with career history
OpenAI ×5Credit Suisse ×2
4 founders hold a PhD · 1 hold an MBA (of 22 with degree data)
Investments · 27 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2024 · 12014 · 12 dated
Revolutionizing space technology to make life multi-planetary
Hawthorne, US
Elon Musk(Founder, CEO & Chief Engineer)in
Co-investors1/1 Capital137 Ventures4DX VenturesA*Abstract VenturesAccess Technology Ventures+110 more
Anthropic is an AI safety research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Dario Amodei(Co-founder & CEO)inDaniela Amodei(Co-founder & President)inTom Brown(Co-founder)inJack Clark(Co-founder & Head of Policy)inJared Kaplan(Co-founder & Chief Science Officer)Chris Olah(Co-founder & Interpretability Research Lead)
Co-investors3Comma Capital7BC Venture CapitalA.Capital VenturesAccelAlkeon InnovationAllen Institute for AI (AI2) Incubator+85 more
LLM frontier and research company building large-scale, steerable, and interpretable AI systems, including the Claude family of models.
Applied Intuition develops physical AI software for autonomous and intelligent machines, including vehicles, robots, ships, and satellites across industries like automotive, defense, logistics, and manufacturing.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsSunnyvale, US
Qasar Younis(Co-founder and CEO)inPeter Ludwig(Co-founder and CTO)
Co-investors137 VenturesAndreessen HorowitzCoatue ManagementElad GilEQUIAMFloodgate+22 more
Carta is a cloud-based ERP platform for private capital markets that manages cap tables, equity administration, fund management, and valuations for startups, private companies, and venture funds globally.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Henry Ward(Co-founder)Manu Kumar(Co-founder)inCharly Kevers(Chief Financial Officer)Jeff Perry(Chief Revenue Officer)Nick Avery(Chief People Officer)Nicole Baer(Chief Marketing Officer)
Co-investorsA*Align VenturesAmity VenturesAndreessen HorowitzAnthemis VentureDraper Associates+35 more
Circle provides a full-stack platform for digital finance, combining blockchain infrastructure, stablecoins (USDC, EURC), and payment networks to enable borderless value exchange and financial access globally.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3FintechNew York City, US
Jeremy Allaire(Founder)inSean Neville(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelalphabet angelsBantam GroupBlockchain CapitalBorderless VentureBreyer Capital+12 more
Cohere builds foundational AI models and enterprise solutions that help businesses automate tasks, accelerate workflows, and enhance decision-making.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSToronto, CA
Aidan Gomez(Co-founder & CEO)Ivan Zhang(Co-founder)inNick Frosst(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAdvaita CapitalAju IB Invesment CorporationAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundIndex VenturesInovia Capital+15 more
Technology-led bank providing embedded banking, payments, and lending infrastructure to leading fintechs.
Co-investorsHanaco Venture CapitalInvestX
Cross River is a bank that combines traditional banking safety and compliance expertise with technology innovation to provide end-to-end financial solutions for partner companies.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSJersey City, US
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzCota CapitalExpansion Venture CapitalInvestXK20 FundT. Rowe Price
Develops scalable cloud and AI infrastructure powered by stranded energy to support high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads.
Crusoe builds energy-first AI infrastructure, using innovative and renewable energy sources to power hyperscale AI factories and a cloud platform for AI workloads.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnergyDenver, US
Cully Cavness(Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer)inChase Lochmiller(Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesACTIVATE CAPITAL PARTNERSAdvaita CapitalAir Street CapitalAlkeon InnovationAvenir Growth Capital+33 more
Cyberhaven provides data detection and response (DDR) software that helps security teams investigate incidents involving data exfiltration and insider threats by reconstructing the complete timeline and context of user actions and data movements.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Volodymyr Kuznetsov(Founder)in
Co-investorsCrane Venture PartnersForgePoint CapitalRedpoint VenturesVertex VenturesWingAdams Street Partners+4 more
Fin (formerly Intercom) is an AI-powered customer agent platform that handles customer service, sales, and ecommerce interactions for over 30,000 companies.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDublin, IE
Eoghan McCabe(Co-founder & CEO)inDes Traynor(Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer)inCiaran Lee(Chief Engineer & Co-founder)inDavid Barrett(Co-founder)inPaul Adams(Chief Product Officer)Archana Agrawal(President)
Co-investorsBessemer Venture Partners137 Ventures500 GlobalAcross Capital PartnersAmplo VenturesFelicis Ventures+15 more
Fluidstack develops infrastructure for AI by rapidly deploying compute capacity, enabling delivery of gigawatts of computing power in six months compared to industry standards of 18-24 months, with focus on data center acquisition, design, operation, and supporting major AI infrastructure projects.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingLondon
Gary Wu(Founder & CEO)inCésar Maklary(Founder)Cesar Maklary(Director & President)Peixian Wu(Director and CEO)Jason Kichen(Chief Infomation Security Officer)Malachi Price(Chief Business Officer)
Co-investors7GC & Co91 VenturesAlso CapitalDuke Capital PartnersEpisode1Founders Factory+9 more
Hydra develops Brokkr, an operating system that enables independent data centers to operate AI Factories by providing shared infrastructure, customer access, and monetization tools on a unified network.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingMiami, US
Aaron Ginn(CEO)inAriel Deschapell(Executive Officer)inGarrett Johnson(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardSteve Jang(Director)
Co-investorsAccelerator VenturesComcast VenturesGraph VenturesKindred VenturesLoup VenturesPROOF+8 more
Klarna is a mobile banking and payments platform that offers flexible payment options, shopping features, and financial management tools to millions of users globally through partnerships with thousands of merchants.
ConsumerE-commerceFintechStockholm, SE
Sebastian Siemiatkowski(Co-founder & CEO)Victor Jacobsson(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAdit Ventures Management, LlcAlpha Wave GlobalBackstage ABBase PartnersChaos VenturesCNI+24 more
Kraken 360 Investments provides capital and launch infrastructure to blockchain protocols in pre-token and early post-token phases, offering custody, staking, treasury, and liquidity services alongside fundraising support.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Jesse Powell(Founder)David RipleyinArjun Sethiin
Co-investors1/1 Capitalalphabet angelsAltari VenturesAweh VenturesBlockchain CapitalBollinger Investment Group+26 more
Lambda provides GPU cloud infrastructure for AI training and inference, offering single-tenant clusters, on-demand instances, and managed AI supercomputers built on NVIDIA GPUs (GB300 NVL72, HGX B300/B200, H200/H100).
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSan Francisco, US
Benhamin Nelson(Executive Officer)Austen Allred(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJessica Verrilli(Director)John Danner(Director)
Co-investorsAir Street CapitalAlpha Square GroupAlumni VenturesB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBasecamp Fund+16 more
GPU cloud platform for large-scale AI training and inference, offering on-demand and reserved compute pre-configured for modern ML workloads.
Loft runs a digital marketplace for residential real estate in Brazil.
Sarasota, US
JONATHAN BLOCK(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMARTIN DE CRANE D'HEYSSELAER(Director)ROWLAND HOBBS(Director)WEI YUAN(Director)DOUGLAS SINCLAIR(Director)
Co-investorsAcross Capital PartnersAndreessen HorowitzMONASHEESNazcaQED InvestorsSoftbank Latin America Fund+8 more
Varda industrializes low Earth orbit by manufacturing pharmaceuticals and other specialized products in space, then returning them to Earth via reusable reentry capsules.
BiotechDeep TechSpace TechEl Segundo, US
Will Bruey(Co-founder)inDelian Asparouhov(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAlso CapitalCaffeinated CapitalFounders FundKhosla VenturesLux CapitalGeneral Catalyst+25 more
South Korean online grocery platform Kurly (formerly Market Kurly), pioneer of 7 a.m. "dawn delivery" of fresh food.
Co-investorsDigital HorizonDigital Horizon VCTransLink CapitalDST GlobalSequoia Capital
Netskope offers a cloud-native platform that converges security and networking (SASE/SSE) to secure access to AI, cloud, web, and private applications for enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSanta Clara, US
Sanjay Beri(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAdit Ventures Management, LlcBallistic VenturesBase PartnersBerkeley FrontierEQUIAM+11 more
Faction is a venture capital firm that invests in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects at the seed and series A stages, focusing on entrepreneurs building fundamental utility across the technology stack.
BiotechCrypto & Web3New York, US
Oren Harnevo(Executive Officer, Director)Ronald Bianchini, Jr.(Executive Officer, Director)Roneil Rumburg(Cofounder)Ohad Finkelstein(Director)Christina Calvaneso(Executive Officer)Brian Pozesky(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAccelAdaverseAlephAxeleo CapitalBluebird VenturesBright Pixel Capital+36 more
AI company developing a medical search engine used by physicians for clinical decision support.
Daniel Nadler(Founder & CEO)inZachary Ziegler(Founder)
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationAmity VenturesAndreessen HorowitzBreyer CapitalCatalio Capital Management, LPCoatue Management+15 more
London-based digital banking app offering multi-currency accounts, cards, trading and business accounts to 65m+ customers.
London, GB
Nikolay Storonsky(Co-founder & CEO)inVlad Yatsenko(Co-founder)inNik Storonsky(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAglae VenturesAlkeon InnovationAlpha Wave GlobalAMK Investment OfficeAndreessen HorowitzAspire11+35 more
Zapier provides a platform for connecting AI models and agents to workflows and business applications, enabling teams to automate tasks across over 9,000 apps without coding.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Wade Foster(Founder)inBryan Helmig(Executive Officer, Director)Mike Knoop(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCaesar VenturesCategory VenturesFelicis VenturesKyber Knight CapitalSV Angel+5 more
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioSpaceXNASDAQ: SPCX
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Revolut · europeanbusinessmagazine.com · Aug 20, 2026
SpaceX · businessinsider.com · Aug 16, 2026
Anthropic · Reuters · Aug 15, 2026
Lambda · idcnova.com · Aug 14, 2026
Carta · medicalbuyer.co.in · Jul 14, 2026
Nominal · medicalbuyer.co.in · Jul 14, 2026
Zapier · aiweekly.co · Jul 8, 2026
Crusoe Energy · arti-trends.com · Jul 6, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has LaunchBay Capital made?
- LaunchBay Capital has 25 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does LaunchBay Capital invest at?
- LaunchBay Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does LaunchBay Capital focus on?
- LaunchBay Capital focuses on Enterprise Software, Fintech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is LaunchBay Capital located?
- LaunchBay Capital is headquartered in London, GB.
- Does LaunchBay Capital lead rounds?
- LaunchBay Capital typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does LaunchBay Capital co-invest with?
- LaunchBay Capital most often shares deals with Andreessen Horowitz, HOF Capital, Index Ventures, among 284 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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