On November 12th, the 2025 CodeLaunch season ends where legends are made: Gilley’s Dallas. The World Championship is our season finale, bringing together the top startups from the U.S., Canada, and LATAM for a single night of high-stakes venturetainment.
What’s at stake? A $50K capital investment, professional software development support powered by Improving, and the chance to win the loudest stage in venturetainment. With startups, live music, networking, and gamified crowd voting, the World Championship is more than a boring pitch, it’s a venturetainment showdown.
The Final Six Are....
FINALIST #1 - KAVODAX
Canada 2025 Champion
Founder: Gharsa Amin
Region: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Industry: Blockchain / Fintech
Improving Dev Team Partner: VanSquad
What They Do: Revolutionizing cross-border payments by making them faster, more affordable, and accessible to everyone. Their mission is to break down financial barriers and connect people globally through innovative blockchain technology.
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raised: 100K CAD
CodeLaunch has changed our lives forever. I’m so grateful for this opportunity—it’s a huge win, but also a big responsibility as we head to the World Championship in Dallas this November,” said Amin. “As a woman founder in blockchain, building something inclusive and community-first, I’m confident we’re going to crush it. This is just the beginning.”
FINALIST #2 - ABRAZO SEGURO
LATAM 2025 Champion
Founder: Derian Jiménez
Region: Yurécuaro, México
Industry: Health Tech / IoT
Improving Dev Team Partner: BugBusters
What They Do: A patent-pending sensory stimulation vest for children with autism, designed to improve well-being, focus, and provide calm during challenging moments. Unlike other products, it can be used daily at home, in schools, or therapy centers, without limiting the child’s mobility, making it a truly practical and supportive accessory.
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raised: $0
Winning CodeLaunch LATAM means everything to us, we started Abrazo Seguro to make a real difference for families, and this victory shows that innovation with heart matters. Now we’re ready to take this mission global.
FINALIST #3 - WELL WATER FINDERS
USA 2025 Finalist
Founders: Andrew Vandekop
Region: Meridian, Texas, USA
Industry: AgriTech
Improving Dev Team Partner: OH/IO
What They Do: Well Water Finders provides highly accurate groundwater surveys using patented electromagnetic technology, helping landowners and developers avoid costly dry holes. Beyond individual surveys, the company is building a proprietary water-intelligence platform that aggregates real-time groundwater data to guide smarter resource management and policy decisions. This evolving platform positions Well Water Finders at the forefront of sustainable water technology and global aquifer intelligence.
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raised: $268,000
Revenue: $315,000
CodeLaunch Raise Terms: Raising $500K at $8M post-money valuation
At Well Water Finders, we’re tackling one of the world’s most critical challenges—access to water—and CodeLaunch has become the launchpad to scale that impact.
FINALIST #4 - THEIA JOBS
USA 2025 Finalist
Founder: Fernando Ponce
Region: Weston, Florida
Industry: HR Tech / AI
Improving Dev Team Partner: Huskers
What They Do: THEIA Jobs is a hiring automation platform built to reduce time-to-hire and remove redundant candidate interviews. Its Interview Smart Agent (ISA) runs interviews around the clock, scoring and ranking candidates automatically. Hiring managers receive live scorecards to make faster, data-driven decisions. The platform streamlines recruitment from first touch to final shortlist, delivering pre-assessed talent by the start of the day.
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raised: $0
CodeLaunch helped us focus on what truly matters—solving problems for people, not chasing vanity metrics.
FINALIST #5 - LIFESPARK LABS
USA 2025 Finalist
Founder: Amber Trivedi
Region: San Diego, California, USA
Industry: Future of Work / AI
Improving Dev Team Partner: What We Do
What They Do: LifeSpark Labs is like LinkedIn meets Pokémon Go – a game that helps Gen Z discover who they are, grow real-world skills, and build a future they’ll love. Powered by patent-pending AI and designed by game and behavioral science experts, it turns growth into data that stands out to schools and employers. 89% of players recommend it. Available to everyone in January, free at select colleges and workforce programs.
Stage: Pre-Seed
Raised: $78,000
CodeLaunch Raise Terms: Raising a $1M pre-seed round on a SAFE at an $8M cap. Seeking early interest conversations with mission-aligned investors who believe in category-defining, socially impactful deep tech.
CodeLaunch has been a catalyst—sharpening our story, pressure-testing our product, and preparing us for the next level.
FINALIST #6 - CAPTION.FYI
USA 2025 Finalist
Founder: Andrew Lin
Region: Dallas, Texas
Industry: Legal Tech / AI
Improving Dev Team Partner: BlueHack
What they do: Everyone is focused on AGI or super intelligence, but there is a lot of VERY important work to be done right now in empowering smart humans to be more effective. Caption makes humans more dangerous, it doesn’t ask software to think for us.
Stage: Pre Seed
Raised: $100,000
CodeLaunch Raise Terms: 50k SAFE at 3m cap
Everyone talks about AI content; few focus on accessibility. CodeLaunch helped us bring inclusion to the center of the conversation.
On the Judges Table:
Three familiar faces from across the CodeLaunch ecosystem join Jason W. Taylor to help crown this year’s world champion.
Esther Cho — Superluckeee
Founder of Superluckeee, a trading education community offering live trading sessions, weekly market reviews, step-by-step training, and classes on technical and fundamentals analysis. She’ll judge with a builder’s eye for clarity, signal, and execution under pressure.
Raheel S. Malik — FirstGen Agency
Former CodeLaunch Emcee (Hall of Fame) and Program Alum. Through FirstGen Agency, he helps founders shape authentic brands and messaging. He knows this stage, the pacing, and what reads with a real audience.
Mark Clayton — LIVV Headphones
Founder of LIVV Headphones and former NFL wide receiver. Mark is the first professional athlete to join the CodeLaunch judges’ table, bringing the mindset of elite competition into the startup arena. His path from the field to hardware founder gives him a unique view on leadership, pressure, and performance.
What’s Next: The Final Battle
On Nov 12, these founders will face off live in Dallas. Expect a night of startups colliding with music, networking, and a crowd-powered vote that helps decide the World Champion. Judges will join the stage to weigh in, but the energy of the audience makes this championship unlike anything else.
- $50K capital investment on the line
- Concert + Startups + Networking
- Gamified experience where the crowd decides the winner
- A live product reveal from CharaChorder (profitable CodeLaunch DFW Finalist from 2019) you’ll want to see first
Thanks to Our Partners & Sponsors
CodeLaunch is powered by Improving, the backbone of our model and the team behind the Professional Coder League. Their developers work side by side with founders to turn early concepts into functioning products before each show — no equity taken, just pure collaboration. Alongside Improving, our network of partners across tech, legal, and venture help bring every CodeLaunch event to life and keep this platform focused on what matters most: helping founders build.
Be part of the CodeLaunch World Championship on November 12 at Gilley’s Dallas.
Reserve your ticket now and experience the most founder-forward startup event of the year.