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About

Inspiring Entrepreneurs and Leaders!

The Learn and Launch team has years of experience teaching, mentoring student entrepreneurs, running startup events and leading youth and adult international tours.

Our team’s experience facilitating startup events, like innovation days and Startup Weekends and international athletic and innovation tours prompted us to combine our two passions and create our current summer camp programs that focus on startups, entrepreneurship and leadership for both youth and adults.

Our Beginnings

Learn and Launch was founded and is led by Kyle Ashby, who also founded and owns Travel in Company LLC, the parent company of Learn and Launch, as well as THE SANDBOX Santa Barbara (a coworking and shared space in Santa Barbara California), and Startup Santa Barbara or StartupSB.

All three companies partner with Learn and Launch.

We have created, taught and facilitated:

University Programs
  • UC Santa Barbara Technology Management Program
  • UC Santa Barbara Extended Learning
  • Antioch University
High School Programs
  • Santa Barbara High School Visual Art and Design Program (VADA)
  • Youth Interactive
  • Learn and Launch
Business Programs
  • Citrix Innovators Program
  • TechStars & Startup Weekend
  • adVentures Academy

Meet Our Team

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Emily Jimenez
Camp Coordinator
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Kyle Ashby
Learn and Launch Founder & Lead Instructor
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John Greathouse
Speaker: Entrepreneurship

About Travel In Company

Our Parent Company

Travel in Company connects people around common interests with itineraries to teach and inspire, allowing travelers, students, a team, or complete strangers to create connections, opportunities, businesses and careers.  We provide unique travel and education experiences and customized adventures around the world.  Our programs focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, startups, community, culture, impact, creative exploration, photography, local music and athletics. 

Travel in Company (the umbrella company of Learn and Launch) partners directly with Startup Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara to host the Learn and Launch program and works closely with a number of partners to create an amazing camp experience.