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This Week in Startups

E1146: LAUNCH Accelerator Cohort 19 founders reflect on their journeys thru the program: Blush (custom illustration tool), Palabra (no-code email automation) & Rolebot (AI hiring platform)

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Check out Blush: https://blush.design

Check out Palabra: https://palabra.io

Check out Rolebot: https://www.rolebot.io

Apply for the LAUNCH Accelerator: https://launch.co/apply

FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

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Hey everybody welcome to another episode of this weekend startups. I'm your host Jason Callicanis and today's a special day. We are going to

1:01.9

celebrate and get to meet three of my latest investments.

1:06.4

These are three startups that went through the launch accelerator and they did it virtually.

1:12.0

So when the pandemic hit, we moved our classes in March of 2020 into

1:19.9

remote. We thought we would be back sometime in the summer or the fall, but here we are 10 months later and

1:27.1

thankfully

1:28.6

we're on the brink for those of you watching this a decade from now and who want to get a feel for what the

1:34.3

pandemic was like. We're on the brink of people taking vaccines and maybe getting back to normal,

1:38.7

but we took the year and perfected hopefully how to run a virtual remote accelerator.

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And so we had seven companies come as always.

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We invest $100,000 into them for 6% of these companies, which is a good deal, but it's a ton of work to run

1:55.8

an accelerator. And the concept behind an accelerator is you pick 1%, 2% of the applications you get and hopefully you do a good job picking you

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