Accelerate Your Startup Success

In a world of talkers and planners, Launchpad startup founders move fast, taking action: building, experimenting, and iterating their way to success.

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What is LaunchPad?

LaunchPad is one of Stanford University’s most successful accelerators. Each Spring quarter d.school adjunct professor Perry Klebahn work with 10 new ventures to incubate and launch a real business in just 10 weeks.

60%

of LaunchPad ventures are still in business

$600 million

has been raised in venture capital funding

1000s

Thousands of new jobs have been created

Join a Community of Driven Entrepreneurs

Over 14 years LaunchPad has coached hundreds of founders to launch businesses in different industry sectors. Many are still operating, some have sold, and others evolved into something new.

Alumni In the Media

Ravel Law Founders
Daniel Lewis & Nik Reed: Acquired by LexisNexis in 2017

San Francisco Business Times: With Machine Learning, S.F. Startup Aims to Help Attorneys Remove Mystique From Judges' Decisions

Branch Co-Founders
Dmitri Gaskin, Alex Austin, Mada Seghete & Mike Molinet

Silicon Valley Business Journal: Report: Andy Rubin-Backed Branch is Raising a Unicorn Round

Man Crates Founders
Jon Beekman & Sam Gong

Forbes: Giving Men What They Really Want: A Crate Filled With 'Awesome Stuff'

The Spoon: Fellow breaks out in coffee business with large round

Wall Street Journal: New Tampon Design gets FDA approval

Tech Crunch: A first year Launchpad company acquired

Fellow Coffee Founder
Jake Miller raises a series B

Sequel Co-Founders
Amanda Calabrese & Greta Meyer

Pulse News Founders
Ankit Gupta & Akshay Kothari

The
Teaching Team

Under the guidance of Adjunct Professor, Perry Klebahn, LaunchPad's legacy of success and transformative opportunities continue to inspire and shape entrepreneurs within the Stanford University community. With its exceptional team and unwavering dedication to launching businesses, LaunchPad stands as a unique offer in the Stanford ecosystem.

The Extended Team of Advisors

We are lucky to have a extremely tallented group that continue to contribute to Launchpad year. Their expertise and perspective keeps the content relevant, and we thank them.

Scott Cannon

Co-Founder Mailbox now at Google

Steve Dow

Founder Dow Capital

Rohit Sharma

Partner True Ventures

Brandon Farwell

Partner Xfund

Mar Hershenson

Managing Partner Pear VC

Eric Chen

Partner OVO Fund

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