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Launch NY
Investor · Buffalo, NY, United States · North America
Launch NY is a nonprofit venture development organization and U.S. Treasury-designated Community Development Financial Institution supporting startups across 36 counties of Upstate New York. It provides free pro bono mentorship through Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and seed capital through its InvestLocal financing programs and investor network.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsseed capitalmentorshipupstate new yorkstartupseconomic developmentcdfi
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Or find every investor that fitsLaunch NY lists 68 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (24%), AI & Machine Learning (17%) and Education (12%). 97% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, IndieBio and SOSV.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Launch NY, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Launch NY's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 68. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 67% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 90th | 68 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 57th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 31th | 24% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 24% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
| Education | 12% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 10% | 7% |
| Fintech | 7% | 12% |
| Consumer | 6% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 6% | 3% |
| Cybersecurity | 3% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 3 |
| IndieBio | 3 |
| SOSV | 3 |
| Dorm Room Fund | 2 |
| New Climate Ventures | 2 |
| SDH Capital | 2 |
| StartFast Ventures | 2 |
| Techstars | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6494%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company46%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Creative Destruction Lab
Compare Launch NY head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Launch NY| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 12 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Launch NY
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Launch NY's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
68 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides satellite enabled safety software for incident management | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| AdaptiveWaves Inc. develops and produces advanced optical coatings for photovoltaic protection, thermal control, and spectral management in demanding environments. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Agri-Trak provides farm labor tracking software and related solutions for farm management and compliance. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AireXpert provides software for aircraft maintenance and MRO operations. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Anaghe Atelier makes and sells clothing and accessories | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| AvantGuard develops technology to combat Candida auris, a fungal pathogen, with a 3-pronged approach. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aviate Audio creates digital effects pedals for musicians. | Enterprise SoftwareConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
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| BetterMynd provides online mental health services to college students | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides mobile braiding services, coming to clients' locations to create custom braids. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| BreeziPro is focused solely on Predictive Maintenance technology for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning systems | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides site contracting services, including material handling, labor services, and site logistics. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | |||
| CareTech Human is a life sciences company that builds a toilet-integrated health platform for continuous health intelligence | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Casana produces a smart toilet seat that tracks vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Circuit Clinical develops a physician-focused, patient-centric process for clinical trials and provides research as a care option for patients. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Combined Energies LLC is commercializing novel power electronics for the clean technology energy market. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| CryoBio provides a biological solution to protect crops from frost damage by offering a sprayable, food-safe spray formulation. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Cyrisma provides a platform for vulnerability management, data discovery, compliance management, and other cybersecurity services. | CybersecuritySpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- launchny.org
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 2 Dec 2025
- Companies checked
- 68
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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