For the next generation of builders

Find your people.Build what's next.

Launchd brings ambitious young builders together to experiment and ship at the frontier of AI and technology.

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Why Launchd exists

A conducive environment changes what gets built.

Talent is not the constraint. Builders need capable peers, access to frontier technology, practical guidance and the momentum of a room designed for making. Launchd brings those conditions together.

Build alongside peers. Learn from practitioners. Leave with something real.

The frontier is better built together.

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Events

High-energy rooms where builders explore new technology by making with it.

Arcade View event

Bengaluru, India

In collaboration with

The Residency Bangalore · Clerk · Zo House

AI Build Sprint View event

Austin, USA

In collaboration with

The Residency · Clerk

Inception: Hackathon Series View event

Bengaluru, India · 22 August

In collaboration with

Reactor · Rosebud AI

Inception: Mini Build Series View event

Bengaluru + Hyderabad, India

In collaboration with

Reactor · Clerk

Community

Smaller settings for honest conversations, new relationships and shared context.

Livestreams

Gaming with World Models

Online · 20 August

In collaboration with

Rosebud.ai · Interact Studio

What are World Models?

Online · 18 June

In collaboration with

Interact Studio · Reactor

Founder dinners

Deeptech Dinner: Hyderabad

Hyderabad, India · 6 September

Founder Dinner: Bengaluru

Bengaluru, India · 31 July

In collaboration with

Zo House

Fireside chats

Orange Slice (YC W25)

Kishan Sripada

Kishan Sripada

Co-Founder & CTO · Orange Slice (YC W25)

Building AI agents that autonomously find customers who are ready to buy.

Arun Khemani

Arun Khemani

Co-Founder · Crackd

Built the largest SAT/ACT prep platform with 100,000+ users.

Remedy (YC F25)

Nikhil Devaraj

Nikhil Devaraj

Co-Founder · Remedy (YC F25)

Revolutionizing consumer health with AI. Previously at Endure Capital.

Trieve (YC W24)

Nicholas Khami

Nicholas Khami

Co-Founder · Trieve (YC W24)

Built Trieve, infrastructure for search and RAG, before its acquisition by Mintlify.

Partner House

A 30-day deep-tech founder residency in Bengaluru, part of The Residency.

Deep-tech founder residency

Variance House

14 ambitious deep-tech founders living and building together in Bengaluru, from 15 September to 15 October 2026.

$500K+ in credits, including $10K in Anthropic credits for every resident
Stay, food and workspace covered
No fees or equity · need-based stipend available

Applications open

The Residency

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Variance House

Mentors

Logan Kilpatrick

Product Lead, Google AI Studio & Gemini API

Danielle Strachman

Co-founder & General Partner, 1517 Fund

Shyamal Anadkat

Former Applied AI, OpenAI

Harshil Mathur

CEO & Co-founder, Razorpay

Harshita Arora

General Partner, Y Combinator

Terry Winograd

Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, Stanford

Build in good company.

Find a room designed for serious work, generous collaboration and the momentum to finish what you start.

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