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Yesterday we brought Launch Builders Demo Night back after more than a year — sold out, close to a hundred people, a full room of energy and curiosity. It showed how much founders value being in the same room, talking, questioning, learning, and sharing what they’re building. Global Relay — thank you for opening your space to our community and making this gathering possible. Davide Larosa, Juliana Dupuy Six live product demos, including two from our Launch alumni — we love seeing you build and come back to share what you’re working on: 🔸 Ashutosh Tiwari | ekai 🔸 Javier Arroyo Ferrer ♾ | Caffeine 🔸 Lionello Lunesu (alum) | Defang Software Labs 🔸 Denys Malykhin | Embedible 🔸 Taric A. (alum) | Clarity Path 🔸 Nathan Ngai | Arkhet A huge thank-you to our volunteers Yasmin K., Parveen Kataria, and Jayden Jiang for making the evening run so smoothly and for being part of the team. Catering love to the CaterDash crew — no founder wants to network on an empty stomach. Shreyansh Manchanda Shout-out to the Xlens Tech Inc. team — our alumni behind an AI-powered event photo platform — who captured the night and shared access to their app for everyone to download the photos. And most of all, thank you to everyone who joined us — for your questions, your curiosity, and for choosing to spend the evening building community with us. The conversations after the demos made the night what it was. 🚀 We’ll see you at the next Launch Builders in February 2026. More details to come. Until then — keep building. — The Launch Team Ray Walia, FCPA, FCMA, Sam Chan, Jean Yoon, Camille Bonnet, and Elena Kiseleva. #LaunchBuilders #LaunchAcademy #DemoNight #VancouverTech

Finally, our two last — but not least — speakers for tomorrow's Launch Builders demo night! 🔸 Taric A. | Clarity Path Taric is a human-centered systems leader, engineer, and the founder of Clarity Path — and a proud Launch alum. Drawing on his experience founding ClickSitter (Closed) and his personal journey with anxiety, Taric builds privacy-first, evidence-based mental health tools that combine product rigor with compassionate design. Clarity Path is a privacy-first, on-device AI therapeutic companion that guides users through a four-stage wellness journey. The app pairs evidence-based CBT/DBT techniques with personalized, device-local AI suggestions, daily check-ins, guided exercises, and weekly insights — all ad-free and built in Canada. 🔸 Nathan Ngai | Arkhet Nathan has over a decade of experience building products, specializing in product discovery and experimentation. He has worked with brands such as Skip, Tata Consultancy Services, the NBA, MLB, the NFL, and more. Frustrated by how AI is often used to replace human creativity rather than enhance it, he founded Arkhet, a platform that helps product teams translate intent into interactive prototypes by mirroring how builders actually think. Arkhet reimagines software design by empowering humans to build with clarity and purpose. We can’t wait to welcome you all tomorrow — founders, builders, community leaders, and friends. Let’s celebrate innovation, connection, and the incredible talent shaping Vancouver’s tech ecosystem. #LaunchBuilders #LaunchAcademy #VancouverTech #VanBuilders #DemoNight

🚀 It’s time to introduce two more incredible speakers joining us at Launch Builders Demo Night! 🔸 Lionello Lunesu | Defang Software Labs First up: Lionello Lunesu — a successful repeat founder and true full-stack engineer with 25+ years in technology. From launching a VR startup in the 90s, to helping ship Windows to over 1 billion PCs, to building blockchain-based digital identity solutions — Lio has spent his career at the forefront of innovation. He’ll be demoing Defang Software Labs, one of our Launch alumni companies — an AI-enabled DevOps agent that makes deploying applications ridiculously simple. With a single command, developers can deploy agentic applications (in any language or framework) to AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, and more. 🔸 Denys Malykhin | Embedible Next, meet Denys Malykhin, the founder of Embedible — an AI copilot for makers that automatically generates wiring diagrams and microcontroller code. A principal engineer by background, Denys has led product teams at Workday, Airbnb, Meta, and McKinsey & Company. He’s passionate about blending AI, creativity, and electronics to make hardware accessible for everyone. #LaunchBuilders #LaunchAcademy #VancouverTech #VanBuilders #DemoNight *** We are officially SOLD OUT — but if you still want to attend Launch Builders, you can! We’re welcoming a few additional volunteers to support with event operations, and volunteers are of course welcome to stay for the demos. If you’re interested, please email us at info [at] launchacademy [dot] ca

Meet the first two builders in our Launch Builders lineup next Wednesday, Nov 19 — founders demoing products that are redefining how we work and build with AI. 🔸 Ashutosh Tiwari | ekai People often describe Ashutosh as a curious designer trapped in an engineer’s body, wearing a salesman’s attire. He’s worked in remote setups since 2015, and most recently at Coinbase he uncovered a costly pattern: “Hybrid teams are spending half of their workweek just to stay aligned.” How we work has changed twice since the pandemic, yet most teams are still juggling the same tools, leading to overload and wasted time. That insight led him to start ekai, a private note-taker built to simplify how distributed teams stay aligned without wasting hours updating status across tools. His previous startup, AuthenticID, An Incode Company (ID forensics and biometrics), was recently acquired by Incode. 🔸 Javier Arroyo Ferrer ♾ | Caffeine AI Javier Arroyo Ferrer is a Partner at Quantum Leap Labs, North America’s first venture studio helping founders and startups build, deploy, and scale on the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP). He leads ecosystem growth, business development, and partnerships across Canada and the U.S., empowering innovators to transform ideas into scalable, AI-driven, decentralized products. Javier is working on Caffeine AI, a generative platform that transforms human intent into running code—instantly. Built on the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), it allows anyone to create and deploy intelligent, autonomous web services that run entirely on-chain, with no cloud dependencies. By fusing AI agents, decentralized computation, and verifiable data, Caffeine AI introduces a new paradigm of self-writing applications, where the internet evolves and builds itself. 🗓 Join us to connect with Ashutosh, Javier, and four more founders who will be demoing what they’re building. 👉 Event link in the comments. #LaunchBuilders #LaunchAcademy #VancouverTech #VanBuilders #DemoNight

At Launch Builders Demo Night, there are no slides, no decks — just five minutes to show your product in action. Launch CEO, Ray Walia, FCPA, FCMA, shares a few quick tips on how to make those five minutes count — delivered by his AI twin. You’ve still got 4 days left to apply to demo at Launch Builders — applications close November 2, 2025 (end of day): https://lnkd.in/g65Usudw Not demoing this time? Get a ticket and join the crowd on November 19 (📍 Gastown, Vancouver): https://luma.com/feqm0p47 #LaunchBuilders #DemoApplications #VancouverTech

Early Bird tickets — sold out! 🎟️ We’re now kicking off General Sale for our next Launch Builders Night on November 19, 2025: https://luma.com/feqm0p47 Here are a few shots from our past events — always packed with energy, fun, and incredible founders from the Vancouver startup ecosystem. It’s the night where builders, investors, and innovators come together to connect, share ideas, and celebrate progress. And if you’re a founder — there’s still one week left to apply to demo! Applications are open until November 2: https://lnkd.in/g65Usudw Come join the community, meet amazing people, and be part of the energy that drives Vancouver’s startup scene. #VancouverStartups #LaunchBuilders #StartupEcosystem #Founders #Networking #TechEvents #LaunchAcademy