Thunder Launchpad

The Thunder Launchpad is a new business venture by the Oklahoma City Thunder that seeks to boost tech investment in its home state. Created by the NBA team in 2018, the Launchpad is a space in Oklahoma City’s Midtown neighborhood that will host a variety of programs, events and partnerships designed to help local investment in innovation take off. The flagship program for the space is a partnership with StitchCrew, an Oklahoma City company that seeks to foster technology-driven entrepreneurs in getting their ideas off the ground and ready to be venture-backed. The company will host its first accelerator batch at the Thunder Launchpad in spring of 2018, giving a class of startup founders in all industries the space, resources and mentors they need to introduce their ventures to investors. The Thunder also aims to host a variety of other events and programs within the Thunder Launchpad to enhance technology education, ideation and networking, with the goal of fostering the growing tech innovation community locally.