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Lance Laking

Managing Director, General Partner at Graphite Ventures

Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Director and General Partner

    2022

    Graphite Ventures is a Seeding for Scale VC firm, focussed on Canadian tech ventures, investing at the early stage, and helping founders to set trajectories for accelerated growth.

  • Advisor and Limited Partner

    2019

    StandUp Ventures is a seed stage fund investing across Canada in women-led high growth ventures. The fund is partnered with MaRS IAF and since inception we've made 7 co-investments together. Portfolio companies include Acerta, Amaca Thera, arteria, Aya Payments, bridgit, coconut software, Disco, Emovi, MIMS, Nudge Rewards, ODAIA, Sampler and tealbook

  • Steering Committee Member

    2016

    SAAS NORTH is Canada’s SaaS Conference designed to connect the top SaaS founders, investors and executives to learn, network and grow over a 2 day event in Ottawa, Canada.

  • Board Director

    2011

    Expertfile is the leading provider of content marketing software used by organizations to manage their experts and thought leaders.

  • President

    2008

    Consulting services to the IT, Cleantech, and Communications Industry sector. Working with CEOs, managment teams, and employees on business strategy, marketing, finance and organizational development. Tackling the challenge of profitable business scaling, and driving for focus that maximizes enterprise value.

  • Managing Director

    2020 - 2021

    Seed Stage Venture Capital Fund

  • Sr. Investment Director

    2009 - 2019

    Seed stage Venture Investor

  • Venture Group Advisor

    2008 - 2020

    As part of my consultancy practice at Singletrack, I am part of the MaRS Advisory Services team, in an "Entrepreneur-in-Residence" capacity.

2005 - 2018

  • Director and Senior Advisor

    2005 - 2018

    www.lixarit.com

2009 - 2016

  • Executive Director & Chief Strategy Officer

    2009 - 2016

    www.trm.ca With more that 20 years of proven, successful ICT professional service solutions delivered to clients around the world. Ottawa based, with extensive Government, Crown Corporation and large enterprise experience. Risk management: Threat-Risk Assessments, Risk Management design and audit. Security: Practical approach to address the full span of IT/Cloud security services from strategic advisory services to the design of solutions to enhance management accountability for security through proactive and comprehensive reporting of security risks, threats and vulnerabilities.

  • Director and Senior Advisor

    2008 - 2014

    Viscore Technologies Inc. is engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of photonics products for transforming optical networks. We provide our clients with leading-edge technology, access to a low-cost, Asian-based supply chain, and design and engineering services for optimizing product cost and performance