Our story
We built the fundraising OS we wish existed.
David Okoro founded Launchpathio in 2021, after his own seed raise in Seattle taught him that the difference between a 3-month fundraise and a 3-week fundraise was almost entirely a question of who introduced you. The network gap shouldn't determine who gets funded.
From a spreadsheet with 200 names to a routing graph.
In 2022, David was running a healthcare startup in Seattle and needed to raise a seed round. He did what everyone told him to do: he built a list, wrote emails, and sent them. Two hundred cold emails over three months. Four responses. Zero term sheets.
The turning point came at a Seattle startup event when a repeat founder asked him a simple question: "Have you asked your advisors who they know at the funds on your list?" David hadn't. Within a week, he had warm intros to partners at three of his top five target funds — through two people he already knew. He had meetings within days and closed the round shortly after.
"The spreadsheet is not the problem. The missing relationship graph is."
That realization led David to build the first version of Launchpathio as a personal tool — a simple system to map his network against a target list. He shared it with other founders in his network. Within six months, thirty founders were using it. The feedback was unanimous: the routing mechanic changed how they approached their raises entirely.
In 2025, Launchpathio raised $1 million in angel funding from investors who had watched the product change how founders approach the most daunting phase of building a company. The team is now three people, working out of Seattle, building the fundraising OS that should have existed on day one.
Launchpathio is not a general CRM or a sales pipeline tool repurposed for fundraising. It is built specifically for the pre-seed and seed raise — the cap table structures, the SAFE mechanics, the warm intro graph, the deck versioning — every decision in the product is calibrated to the moment when a first-time founder is raising their first round and needs to look like they've done this before.
The team.
David Okoro
CEO & Co-Founder
Former founder who raised his own seed round in Seattle after discovering, the hard way, that warm intros were the variable he'd been ignoring. Built Launchpathio to give every first-time founder the same map a repeat founder already has.
Yuki Tanaka
Head of Product
Previously designed onboarding and deal-flow tools at an early-stage fintech. At Launchpathio she owns every product decision from the cap table UI to the intro request flow — with one mandate: make complex mechanics feel obvious on first use.
Carlos Mendez
Lead Engineer
Full-stack engineer who previously built relationship intelligence tooling for enterprise teams. Leads the graph routing engine at the core of Launchpathio's intro routing.
Founders deserve the same network access as repeat founders.
A repeat founder walks into a raise with a relationship map built over years — they know the partners, the portfolio founders who can intro them, the angels who move fast. A first-time founder starts from a blank spreadsheet. That asymmetry is structural, and it's fixable. Launchpathio is the equalizer.
Data should replace guesswork in fundraising.
Too many founders choose which fund to target first, which deck version to send, which relationship to activate — on gut feeling alone. Every one of those decisions has a data-backed answer. We build the infrastructure that makes it visible.
The best raise is a fast raise — not a long one.
Every week in active fundraise is a week not building. The average pre-seed raise takes 3–6 months. Founders who start with a mapped network and a structured pipeline consistently close in the bottom half of that range. Compressing the raise isn't magic — it's preparation.