APPLICATIONS CLOSED JULY 14TH

Launchpad is a 10 week virtual program for Los Angeles-based entrepreneurs who have launched a functional product or service and are ready to grow. Designed for early-stage businesses with real traction, the program combines self-directed learning, weekly live sessions, and peer group support to provide practical tools and strategic insight.

🎉 Introducing our 2025 Launchpad Cohort!

Grid110’s Launchpad Accelerator, is a free ten-week accelerator for founders based in Los Angeles who have already launched a functional product or service. This cohort will spend the coming weeks refining strategy, strengthening customer insight, and growing together in a supportive peer community.

Across the program, founders combine weekly live sessions with self-directed learning. Topics include value proposition, go-to-market, customer storytelling and pitching, hiring and early organization design, and founder identity an by d vision alignment. Launchpad is no-cost and equity free, with access to a strong perks package and a network of mentors, experts, and fellow founders.

Cohort at a Glance

  • 19 companies selected

  • 28 founders supported

  • 11+ industries represented

  • Top sectors: Health & Wellness, Fashion & Apparel, Education, SaaS, Marketing

  • Stage mix: 68% launched & earning revenue; 26% launched & pre-revenue; 5% pre-launch

  • Founder identities (self-reported): at least 58% women; 42% Black; 37% Latinx; 21% Asian/Pacific Islander; 11% LGBTQIA+

  • Funding profile: 63% bootstrapped; 37% report grants, friends & family, or external support

Here’s a little bit about these incredible companies:

👗🛍️ ABL Boutique — Fashion & Apparel: ABL Boutique is a Los Angeles women’s-wear boutique curating bold, feminine collections that celebrate authenticity and self-expression. Rooted in garment-industry experience and shaped by feedback from pop-ups and organic social growth, ABL is building a values-driven lifestyle label with strong loyalty.

🚗📲 CariCab LLC — Mobility & Transportation: CariCab LLC is a driver-first rideshare and delivery platform where drivers pay a flat subscription and keep 100% of fares, while riders benefit from transparent, negotiable pricing. In-person driver vetting and AI dashcams prioritize safety; the MVP has generated meaningful sales with minimal marketing and is expanding into delivery.

🎬🍿 Cinefind — Media & Entertainment: Cinefind instantly aggregates free in-theater screenings and alerts users before seats fill up, with a clean dashboard and watchlist-based notifications. The platform also opens access for indie filmmakers to book theaters directly, modernizing a stagnant part of film distribution.

♻️🧵 Circular Fashion LA, SPC — Circular Fashion & Repair: Circular Fashion LA, SPC keeps clothing in use through mail-in repairs and alterations, upcycling, and circular events for consumers and companies. Repeat customers and corporate partnerships validate a convenient, high-quality repair model that reduces waste while elevating personal fit and style.

🎓🧠 ESTE Leverage, Inc. — Education Technology: ESTE Leverage, Inc. is an adaptive employability platform powered by a validated mindset and engagement assessment, delivering personalized career exploration for students and professionals. Backed by NSF work and early revenue, ESTE’s patent-pending AI provides explainable, bias-aware guidance educators can integrate daily.

🎗️🩺 F-U Cancer — Digital Health & Wellness: F-U Cancer is a digital cancer-wellness platform offering expert-led courses, an interactive community, and biometric screening tools for patients and caregivers. Built by clinicians and advocates, it elevates supportive care—nutrition, movement, mental health—into a proactive, measurable part of treatment.

🏠🛋️ Flip4Good Inc. — Community Development & Housing: Flip4Good Inc. applies trauma-informed, sensory-conscious interior design to transitional housing so spaces actively support healing and stability. Early projects show meaningful well-being gains; the model blends neuroscience, licensed architecture, and lived expertise.

🏺🧶 Jitana — Home & Lifestyle Goods: Jitana is a design-forward lifestyle brand partnering with skilled producers across Latin America to deliver artisan pottery, textiles, and accessories. With national retail placements and growing wholesale and private-label channels, Jitana combines high design with ethical production at scale.

💼🤖 Jobs Jr. — HR Technology: Jobs Jr. is an AI job-hunt agent that tracks fresh openings across hundreds of employer sites, surfaces networking contacts, and drafts personalized outreach. The tool replaces spreadsheets with a conversational workflow and is already generating recurring B2B revenue via counseling and mentorship firms.

📚📣 Lightbulb Moments Press — Publishing & Marketing Services: Lightbulb Moments Press is an indie press and marketing studio delivering end-to-end coaching, editing, publishing, and 360° promotion to amplify marginalized voices. A completed client journey serves as a blueprint for scalable launches, with additional authors moving through the pipeline.

🧢🎨 Lingo Apparel Co. — Fashion & Apparel: Lingo Apparel Co. creates cultural streetwear that fuses modern silhouettes with storytelling and symbolism to spark pride and belonging in Latinx communities. Collections are tested through community pop-ups and events, driving steady sales growth and a loyal audience.

💄🛒 Loo-sha Inc. — Beauty Retail & Retail Technology: Loo-sha Inc. deploys full-service automated kiosks and nano-fulfillment hubs inside partner locations to deliver curated, culturally relevant beauty products while supporting indie brands. Early traction includes thousands of beta users, multiple pilots, and a growing pipeline of placements.

🧘‍♀️🌿 Mindfulness With Desiree — Mental Health & Wellness: Mindfulness With Desiree offers trauma-informed coaching, workshops, sound baths, and retreats that help women regulate stress, reconnect with themselves, and build sustainable practices. Rapid audience growth and corporate wellness partnerships point to strong demand for accessible, stigma-free healing.

🆘🦺 Perci Ready LLC — Emergency Preparedness & Safety: Perci Ready LLC provides a three-part readiness system: the Perci app generates personalized disaster plans, the hands-free Perci Vest supports safe evacuations, and an employer dashboard tracks workforce preparedness. Active pilots and endorsements signal a clear path to scale across households and organizations.

🎭💖 Purpose Fulfilled Inc. — Mental Health & Wellness: Purpose Fulfilled Inc. delivers live events, workshops, coaching, and digital content that blend mental-health tools with the performing arts to help people transform pain into purpose. Community feedback and speaking engagements validate an emotionally resonant, practical approach.

🌿🏋️‍♀️ Rooted — Fitness & Community Wellness: Rooted is an Inglewood studio combining small-group and 1:1 fitness with gardening and learning for multigenerational families. Programming and expanded class times are driven by direct community requests and sustained by word-of-mouth demand.

📣💡 Sur-Ryl Marketing — Marketing & Communications: Sur-Ryl Marketing provides full-service brand and marketing strategy for public-sector, nonprofit, and social-impact clients, translating complex initiatives into action. Spin-offs like Mocha Stock and Diversity Be Like extend reach and representation across content and conversation.

🧠📱 Vibix Learning Inc. — Student Wellness & EdTech: Vibix Learning Inc. centers adult wellbeing first with the MindfulMe app and Mental Wellness First Responder certification, embedding daily emotional-skills practice and real-time wellness data in schools. Paid contracts and district partners demonstrate scalability.

🌊♻️ Wecoop LLC — Sustainable Materials & Biotechnology: Wecoop LLC develops ocean-degradable biopolymers, including Ethos Marine™, an alternative bait system for lobster and crab fishing that removes plastic gear while meeting regulations and reducing costs. Field tests and industry partnerships indicate strong performance and market fit.

PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY

Who is eligible to apply?

LOCATION

Businesses must be based in the City of Los Angeles and demonstrate a clear commitment to growth and engagement within the LA ecosystem.

STAGE

Companies must have launched a functional product or service and been in operation for at least one year.

GROWTH

Founders should have a clear intention to grow their business, improve operational efficiency, and refine product-market fit.

PROGRAM SESSION DETAILS

Program sessions will be held weekly for 10 weeks on Wednesdays from 2pm - 4pm PST. These sessions will include hands-on instruction, discussion, and collaboration, with accompanying self-directed learning to further founder’s understanding of the topic. In addition to this, we will host optional events outside of weekly sessions.

PROGRAM FIT

Who is this accelerator best for?

Businesses who demonstrate a clear commitment to growth and engagement within the LA ecosystem.

Entrepreneurs who value learning in a collaborative environment, building alongside fellow entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs who thrive with a blend of structured, hands-on instruction with the flexibility of self-directed learning.

Through Launchpad, entrepreneurs will:

Strengthen leadership & decision-making as a founder and team builder

Deepen their understanding of customers through continued discovery and validation

Refine product and positioning based on user insights and data

Prepare for team growth with strategic hiring, delegation, and culture-building

Communicate progress with confidence through storytelling and pitching

“The sessions were really tangible and relevant for me as a first-time founder. I appreciated the video lessons and the prompts offered to work through the related content. The opportunity to connect 1:1 with a mentor was also incredibly valuable.”

Dr. Jenny Vazquez-Newsum

Founder, LevelUp.ai

 FAQs

  • The 10 week program will take place on Wednesdays from 2PM - 4PM PST between August, 2025 - October, 2025, with Orientation taking place in mid-August, 2025

  • Yes. Companies must be based in LA, with an interest in growing and connecting with the LA ecosystem.

  • Each week consists of about 2 hours of content to be reviewed and completed asynchronously, in addition to weekly 2 hour live sessions led by the Grid110 Team. Along with this, we will also host optional weekly events and office hours to further your learning. Like anything, you get out what you put in. This program is designed to support founders through the entrepreneurial process, while allowing them to focus on running the day-to-day operations of their business. 

  • The program is free for all accepted companies. Companies must go through an application process to be eligible for this program. To add, Grid110 does not take equity in or provide funding to any company.

  • Grid110 does not focus on any particular business type or vertical. We welcome applications from any field, sector, or industry (except cannabis). Knowledge and skills taught and reviewed during the program are applicable and transferable to ideas from all sectors & industries. While most businesses are tech enabled, you do not necessarily need to be a “tech company” to be considered. Our companies range across various types of products/services: SaaS, mobile apps, e-commerce, CPG, food, social enterprises, fashion, B2B software, health/wellness, AI, sports, beauty.

  • Due to the volume of applications we receive, we are unable to accommodate any edits to applications once submitted.

  • While all members are encouraged to engage with content, a maximum of two co-founders / team members can attend the weekly live sessions.

  • This accelerator will cover key topics, including:

    • Clarify Your Value Proposition

    • Rethink Go-To-Market Strategy

    • Customer Storytelling + Pitching

    • Hiring + Structuring Your Early Team

    • Founder Identity + Vision Alignment

  • While the primary program sessions will be self-directed online content and virtual zoom sessions, we will plan for some in-person community building opportunities.

  • In addition to joining our highly engaged, diverse, and generous community of alumni founders and community partners, selected companies will gain access to our platforms and tools perks package valued at $100K+, access to our engaged & supportive founder slack community, and access to our network of 3K+ industry mentors, experts, and investors.

  • Please reach out to programs@grid110.org