Jason Calacanis is the Founder & CEO at LAUNCH, based in United States, North America. With a background in Venture Capital, Jason Calacanis has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Jason Calacanis studied B.A.  Psychology @ Fordham University. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.

Causecast provides a comprehensive and easy to use online system that helps businesses and organizations manage community volunteering, donations, matching, rewarding and cause campaigns ranging from disaster relief to competitive social fundraising.  The all-inclusive Community Impact Platform enables measurable social change for groups of any size - from organizations and online communities to schools and nonprofits.

Causecast

Gowalla is the leading Social Guide to the world's most loved places and cities. 

Its award-winning mobile app and website — paired with an ever-growing collection of socially-powered Guides to cities, parks and regions across the globe — as curated by the Gowalla community and experts like Disney and National Geographic — make it easy for friends and families to share and discover photos, experiences and recommendations on the go.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Gowalla was launched in 2009 and is backed by investors including Greylock Partners, Also p-Louie Partners, Founders Fund, and other prominent angel investors.

Gowalla (acquired by facebook)

Backupify, a Datto brand, provides cloud-to-cloud backup, allowing businesses to extend best practices for data safety and accessibility to the cloud. Backupify provides IT professionals with the protection and control they require to protect against data loss caused by user mistake, external attacks, and service outages.

Backupify

At Jibe, we create global recruiting software solutions to help the world’s leading companies identify, engage, and hire the best talent. 

Jibe's core technology is the Jibe Recruiting Cloud, a SaaS-based platform that enables leading companies to hire the best talent, regardless of their existing systems. Through this platform, Jibe provides a suite of products including personalized career sites and recruiting tools for sourcing, nurturing and marketing to candidates.  

Jibe currently serves the world's leading Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Marriott, and American Express.  Elevated by strategic partnerships with Google and LinkedIn and backed by their expertise in recruiting technology, Jibe continues to be an innovative leader in the changing world of talent acquisition.

Jibe

gdgt (parent company: PastFuture) is a consumer electronics site by [Peter Rojas](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/peter-rojas) and [Ryan Block](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ryan-block). Rojas was the founding editor of [Engadget](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/engadget) and Gizmodo and Block was editor-in-chief of Engadget.

gdgt

UberMedia’s diverse suite of products process billions of social, demographic, and location signals daily to understand and influence modern consumers with the most accurate business decision science. Targeted mobile advertising campaigns reach beyond generic visibility to solve real-world business objectives, including customer conquests, improved in-store visits, and increased sales. 

UberMedia delivers dynamic advertising solutions for Fortune 500 companies across retail, automotive, entertainment, and consumer markets. Recognized as a pioneer in targeted mobile advertising, UberMedia was listed as Fast Company’s “50 Most Innovative Companies” and The Wall Street Journal’s Top “50 Startups.”

UberMedia is headquartered in Pasadena, CA as a network company of Idealab, a world-renowned operator of leading technology businesses. For more information, visit www.ubermedia.com.

UberMedia

Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.

You can immediately see what people look like, where they're based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by mentioning shared interests. You can grow your network by connecting on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more. And you can record thoughts for later by leaving notes.

Rapportive

Chartbeat is a  content intelligence platform for publishers that empowers companies to build loyal audiences with real-time and historical editorial analytics across desktop, social, and mobile platforms. The company helps digital publishing organizations understand what, within their content, is keeping people engaged. It shows visitors, load times, and referring sites on a minute-by-minute basis.  The service also provides alerts the second your Website crashes or slows to a crawl.

The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York.

Chartbeat

Wanderfly is the best place to discover and share personalized travel recommendations. Our premise is simple: everyone travels differently, so we all need different recommendations. We’re here to make travel planning more personal, simple, fun, human and inspiring.

Wanderfly is venture-backed by notable VCs and angel investors, including Charles River Ventures, MentorTech Ventures, Jason Calacanis, Dave Morin and Roger Dickey, and supported by a distinguished advisors, including John Gerzema, Kevin Farnham, Khoi Vinh, Ravi Simhambhatla and Eric Bradlow.

Wanderfly

Space Monkey is an affordable subscription-based data storage solution that is taking the cloud out of the datacenter, creating a faster and more durable way to store data from any device. Space Monkey combines the benefits of local hardware storage and cloud storage by providing a device that stores one terabyte of online storage. Space Monkey provides central access and sharing from anywhere in the world, and from any device including iOS and Android mobile devices, Windows, Mac and Linux clients, as well as any other web browser enabled technology. Founded by entrepreneurs, Clint Gordon-Carroll and Alen Peacock in July 2011, Space Monkey is headquartered in Midvale, UT, a suburb of Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit: www.spacemonkey.com

Space Monkey

Cozy is an online property management service designed for landlords and renters. Its products is for rent payments, rental applications, and tenant screening. Cozy helps small and medium landlords and renters to get things done.

It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Cozy

Social product testing disrupts the current launch process by getting products in the hands of users instead of the press or experts. Fresh connects brands with an engaged audience that review new products.

Consumer reviews are preferred by a 3-to-1 margin over expert reviews. But, there's a void in the marketplace for a growing class of products for which there are no consumer reviews. Compare: http://amzn.to/14yTMIG vs. http://bit.ly/UjVZXD

GetFresh

Red Tricycle is a digital media company that provides authoritative, localized content to its growing online community of busy urban moms. Its online community focuses on offering ideas that are aspirational and actionable and also connects families with localized points of interests that enable parents to do fun things with their kids and to identify their specific interests through various demographic filters, and essentially connect with a virtual tour guide.

Red Tricycle

Signpost provides software and services for local businesses to capture and convert leads, and generate more revenue from their existing customer base.
It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Signpost

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ridesharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request that is routed to crowd-sourced partner drivers.

Its smartphone application connects drivers with people who need a ride. Its application enables users to arrange and schedule transportation and/or logistics services with third-party providers. They take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world. It also provides  Windows Phone App,  iPhone App, Blackberry App, and Android App. Uber serves customers in North, Central, and South Americas as well as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific

Garrett Camp, Oscar Salazar, and Travis Kalanick founded UberCab in March 2009 which became Uber Technologies in October 2010, with its headquarters in San Francisco California, and an engineering center in Bengaluru in India as well as a regional office in Singapore.

Uber

More and more people are relying on mobile as their primary source of news yet the content itself continues to be produced in a format that translates very poorly to mobile devices. Rather than trying to shoehorn existing content into a new environment, Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience. It will deliver news in a unique format – native to mobile devices with an experience intuitive to mobile users.  Through comprehensive yet to-the-point news updates paired with an engrossing mobile experience, Circa redefines how news is produced, delivered and consumed. Circa is news reimagined.

Circa was founded by [Matt Galligan](/person/matt-galligan), [Ben Huh](/person/ben-huh) and [Arsenio Santos](/person/arsenio-santos) in 2011.

Circa

Jason Calacanis

San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Money Raised
Mar 01, 2022	Metadata	Series B - Metadata	40.0M
Nov 24, 2022	Bonjuur	Funding Round - Bonjuur	25.0K
Jun 01, 2023	Dexla	Convertible Note - Dexla	25.0K
Nov 17, 2023	Nucanon	Pre Seed Round - Nucanon	0

Annouced Date	Organization Name	Funding Round	Investor Name	Money Raised
Mar 06, 2024	Zweelie	Angel Round - Zweelie	LAUNCH	0
Apr 01, 2024	-	Pre Seed Round - Melengo	LAUNCH	2.1M
May 01, 2024	PodcastAI	Pre Seed Round - PodcastAI	LAUNCH	0
Aug 01, 2024	CustomerIQ	Funding Round - CustomerIQ	LAUNCH	0

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Jason Calacanis has made 41 investments. Their Latest investment was Pre Seed Round - Nucanon on Nov 17, 2023

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