Investor profile for Launch NY: stage-based planning range, investment stages, sector focus, portfolio companies, sources, and verification status. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker directory.

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Launch NY stages, portfolio and investment profile

Nonprofit venture development organization and CDFI for Upstate New York, combining mentorship with InvestLocal seed capital. LP Fund I raised $5.425M (2019); LP Fund II raised $15.775M (2023). Roughly $17M–$19.5M invested across 100+ companies since 2016. Headquartered in Buffalo; serves 36 Upstate counties.

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Stage-based planning range

$250K–$3M

This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.

Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.

No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.

Source link not recorded Confidence: 25% Verified: Not recorded View methodology

Investment stages

Leads: Pre-Seed, Seed

Participates: Pre-Seed, Seed

Sector focus

generalist-tech · climate-tech · enterprise-saas · deep-tech

Geography

Buffalo, NY

Founded 2012

Fund size / AUM

Not recorded

A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.

Portfolio in our directory

1

Linked startup profiles

Latest fund vehicle

Not recorded

Vehicle name, size, and vintage are not yet structured.

Recent tracked investment

Not recorded

No dated round explicitly links this fund.

Rounds they lead

Pre-Seed Seed

Rounds they invest

Pre-Seed Seed

Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.

Portfolio companies we track

Startups in our directory that list Launch NY as an investor (1 total).

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