Jacqui Deegan

Loved seeing everyone in Osaka!

We are offering five PAID, full-time slots in our Associate-in-training program. This program is for the most driven fanatics, out of school (or sometimes, but rarely, career-changing), who want to work 60/70+ hours a week to become legendary venture capitalists — and who don't want to wait in line. You work directly with my team around the globe, learning every aspect of venture: sourcing deals, first calls, due diligence, fund formation, LP relations, secondary sales, exits, follow-on funding, running @FounderUni, running the LAUNCH Accelerator, legal documents, and, most importantly, EXECUTIVE training. This is Navy SEALs-level training... START EARLY, END LATE. Austin, in person. It's intense, seven days a week for two years... exhausting work. Your brain will melt. Half the folks tap out and ring the bell in the first year. The other half become legends. PLEASE DON'T APPLY UNLESS YOU'RE HARDCORE AND YOU ARE WILLING TO MAKE THIS YOUR LIFE. You can pay @KauffmanFellows $80,000 for two years, or you can come work for me and get ~2x that in two years -- if you make it through.

Based on the feedback from our 9,000 investors, we’ve evolved the syndicate from focusing on early-stage startups to securing allocations directly with founders of late-stage, pre-IPO companies We asked a half-dozen billion-dollar startup founders (and their CFOs) if they would give us a $ 1- 20 m allocation — and we're batting 100% at this point. We only do an SPV when we can do it directly and with the founder and CFO's blessing. All these shady and fraudulent SPVs have burned our members, so we’ve built a new platform that's rock-solid. We are taking meetings with family offices over the summer, and sharing our roadmap of deals. Email [email protected] to meet the team

An amazing startup that @garrytan and I were able to incubate together 🙌🏼

And I'm going to give two $25,000 investment prizes (uncapped standard safe/or whatever your round is) to the best OpenClaw and non-OpenClaw start-up at the LAUNCH FESTIVAL 2026 If you are an investor and want to match my prize and come to the event just reply “i’m in JCal” below or email [email protected]

When I came into the industry in the 90s, I couldn't afford the $2,000 to $5,000 it cost to attend an industry event … and the DEMO conference was charging tens of thousands of dollars to let you on stage to show you the product — I couldn't afford the $20,000 for that either So I created TechCrunch50 and then rebranded it LAUNCH FESTIVAL and featured free tickets for founders … and made it free and merit based to be on stage. … and I gave a $25,000 prize to the best start-up Today, I'm bringing LAUNCH Festival back as a way to pay it forward to founders starting their careers