Investing Profile

Jason Calacanis(1126)

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Founder & CEO at LAUNCH
calacanis.comSan Francisco, California
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Jason Calacanis's investing connections

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150 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 147 other investors on Signal.

Networks Jason is a member of
Sequoia Capital Network
61 CONNECTIONS
Uber Network
49 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
LAUNCH Investor
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
606

Jason Calacanis is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Fashion (Seed)Sales & CRM (Seed)Consumer Health (Series B)Retail (Seed)AI (Series B)Gaming/eSports (Seed)Entertainment & Sports (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Series B)Food and Beverage (Seed)Entertainment & Sports (Series B)Fashion (Series B)Entertainment & Sports (Series A)Cloud Infrastructure (Series A)Consumer Health (Series A)Fashion (Series A)Food and Beverage (Series B)Cloud Infrastructure (Seed)Gaming/eSports (Series B)Gaming/eSports (Series A)Food and Beverage (Series A)Sales & CRM (Series B)Sales & CRM (Series A)Consumer Health (Seed)Retail (Series A)AI (Seed)Retail (Series B)AI (Series A)Health & Hospital Services (Series B)Health & Hospital Services (Series A)San Francisco Bay AreaAngel, Scout, and Solo-CapitalistsFashion (Pre-seed)Retail (Pre-seed)Food and Beverage (Pre-seed)Gaming/eSports (Pre-seed)Entertainment & Sports (Pre-seed)Sales & CRM (Pre-seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Pre-seed)Consumer Health (Pre-seed)Health & Hospital Services (Pre-seed)AI (Pre-seed)Health & Hospital Services (Seed)

Jason Calacanis's Investments On Record (403)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
howie
SeedSep 2025$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Lindel Eakman (Foundry Group), Nick Davidov (Davidovs VC), Julian Weisser (Kepler Operator’s Fund), Turner Novak (Banana Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital), Raanan Bar-Cohen (Resolute Ventures), Sarah Smith (Sarah Smith Fund), Sophia Amoruso (Trust Fund), Nate DaPore (Roo Partners), Diego Oppenheimer, Bobby Goodlatte, Roger Dickey, David J. Phillips
Ithy
Pre SeedAug 2025
Millet AI
Pre SeedAug 2025
Know Reply
Convertible NoteJul 2025$25K
$25K
Janney AI
Pre SeedJul 2025$25K
$25K
ViGi Video
Pre SeedJul 2025
Path
Convertible NoteJul 2025
$68M
Co-investors: Scott Raney (Redpoint Ventures), Matt Cohler (Benchmark), Tod Francis (Shasta Ventures), Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Sam Lessin (Slow Ventures), Kent Goldman (Upside Partnership), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Tom Conrad (Big Sky Health), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), John Borthwick (Betaworks Ventures), Maurice Werdegar (Western Technology Investment), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Gary Vaynerchuk (Vayner RSE), Joi Ito, Mark Pincus, Chris Kelly, Bill Raduchel, Don Dodge, Josh Spear, Marc Benioff, Karl Jacob, Dustin Moskovitz
TheKitchenTable
Pre SeedJul 2025

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Jason Calacanis's Experience

Host This Week in StartupsPresent
Producer LAUNCH2019 - Present
Host, ANGEL, the podcast AngelPodcast.com2017 - Present
Author ANGEL, the Book2017 - Present
Founder & CEO LAUNCH2011 - Present
Founder Launch Festival2011 - Present
Angel Investor Uber2010 - Present
CEO & Founder Inside.com2007 - Present
Broadcast Associate - Editing MLB Network2018 - 2019
Freelance Video Editor This Week in Startups2017 - 2019
Broadcast Event Logger MLB Network2017 - 2017
Entrepreneur in Action Sequoia Capital2006 - 2007
CEO & Co-Founder Weblogs, Inc.2003 - 2006
CEO VentureReporter.net1996 - 2003
Founder, CEO & Editor Silicon Alley Reporter1996 - 2001

Jason Calacanis's Education

University of Delaware Bachelor’s Degree Media Communication
Fordham University BA Psychology