Launch LKN

Launch

LKN

CONNECT WITH
LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE

Engage, empower, inspire.

LaunchLKN is a collaborative community of entrepreneurs, mentors,
and community leaders dedicated to sharing knowledge and motivating growth of the
technology-based startup scene in Lake Norman.

Join The Community

WHY LaunchLKN?

The Lake Norman towns of Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, and Mooresville are growing exponentially and ripe with talent and expertise. We exist to create a whole community that is greater than the sum of its parts.

CONNECT

First-time entrepreneurs, successful founders, talented professionals, experienced investors … all located in the Lake Norman (LKN) area of NC. We are a platform to connect all the components so tech-based startups can thrive.

COLLABORATE

Knowledge becomes powerful when it is shared. We create purposeful opportunities through networking events, office hours, and co-working spaces to collaborate, learn, and belong in LKN’s start-up community.

CRAFT

Challenges, successes, and stories are best shared over drinks! We take advantage of North Carolina’s exploding craft beer scene to build relationships, solve problems, and toast your steps forward. Cheers!

COMMUNITY

Our community is a unique and desirable place to do business and enjoy life. Combine impressive tech entrepreneurs and a group of masterminds eager to share their experiences, and we are a community ready to LAUNCH.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
Mark Twain

Experienced Mentors

As entrepreneurs we tend to live, sleep, and breathe our companies. But that passion for our idea can quickly turn to frustration as we try to tackle all the aspects of running a business.

What if there was an easy way to ask for help?

Now there is through The Hurt Hub Mentor Program powered by Davidson College and LaunchLKN.

Apply for a Mentor

EVENTS

LaunchLKN members and mentors have access to regular exclusive networking events. Happy hours, professional speakers, distinguished panels, and entrepreneur-focused educational opportunities are some of the ways we gather to influence growth in our group. We put the answers to your burning questions at your fingertips… over drinks!

Upcoming Events

MENTOR PROGRAM

We might be biased, but we have some of the area’s brightest minds ready to serve entrepreneurs. They are strategic thinkers, corporate leaders and educators. They are founders and entrepreneurs. They are financial gurus and engineers. Push your passion forward through The Hurt Hub Mentor Program powered by Davidson College and LaunchLKN.

Mentor Program

INTEREST GROUPS

Our community boasts a lot of super-smart tech junkies. Some are working in tech every day, and others just enjoy exploring things like AI, blockchain, IoT, cybersecurity, or CRISPR as a hobby. Think of our Interest Groups as tech playgrounds. Challenge yourself, work on creative projects, and engage with like-minded techies to advance and share knowledge.

Interest Groups