Realizing that the best way to learn business isn't in a textbook—it's in the real world.
Founded by a 16-Year-Old Entrepreneur
CreatorLaunch began when our founder, a 16-year-old student with an entrepreneur mind, looked at the existing landscape and saw a wall between youth and the business world. High school offered clubs, but it didn't offer capital. It offered theory, but not launchpads.
Driven by the desire to see more youth-run businesses in St. Louis and beyond, we built CreatorLaunch to be the bridge. It’s a peer-led movement designed to prove that age isn't a barrier to innovation—it's an advantage.
"We aren't just waiting for our turn to lead. We are building the businesses of today."
To empower young creators with the skills, funding, and mentorship to launch their own ventures through immersive, risk-free educational workshops.
To scale our hands-on STL model into the CreatorLaunch Digital Platform, making youth entrepreneurship a global standard.
For decades, St. Louis has been a powerhouse of industry, but entrepreneurship was largely gate-kept within universities. High schoolers were told to "wait until college" to start thinking like CEOs.
In the 2010s, "entrepreneurship clubs" became common, but they lacked Action. Students were learning how to write plans that would never be funded and pitch ideas that would never be built.
Today, CreatorLaunch is rewriting that history. By placing a 16-year-old at the helm and focusing on Launch Capital, we moved the city from passive learning to active creation.