Albert Lai
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer @ Big Viking Games
Toronto, Canada
Albert Lai is a seed investor at Big Viking Games in Toronto focused on Analytics and Advertising. Albert Lai is co-founder & CEO at Big Viking Games, his 6th startup to date. Most recently he was co-founder and president at Kontagent, a Facebook-funded viral analytics platform venture.Albert sold his first internet company, the MyDesktop Network while in his teens to JupiterMedia (JUPM) for 7 digits in cash. He was also thefounder/CEO of BubbleShare, a photo-sharing company sold to Kaboose (KAB)/Disney in 2007.In his spare time, Albert
- Total investments:
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Industries Albert Lai invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Analytics 1 (50%)
- Advertising 1 (50%)
- Card and Board Games 1 (50%)
- Information Technology 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (50%)
Country
- Canada 1 (50%)
- United States 1 (50%)
Investments
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Echo Chunk builds epic strategy games that generate themselves. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Jul 16, 2024 | |
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Gallop is a growth hacking platform, leveraging first party data to draw insights using machine intelligence and making them actionable for marketers. Our behavioural analytics and marketing automation improves key growth metrics of revenue, engagement and user growth. | $2M / Seed / Dec 10, 2014 |
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About Big Viking Games
Big Viking Games is a leader in free-to-play social and mobile games with an emphasis on HTML5 technology. Its titles are played by millions of people on iOS, Android, Facebook and mobile web. Since being founded in 2011, Big Viking Games has grown profitably to a team of over 100 employees in Toronto and London. It has been consistently recognizedfor its workplace culture as a top 10 employer by the Great Place to Work Institute, and it has been ranked as one of the Top 100 Employers in Canada.Big Viking Games (formerly Tall Tree Games) was founded by serial entrepreneur, Albert Lai (formerly co-founder of Kontagent, and 4 other companies) and industry veteran Greg Thomson (creator of 30+ apps with 40 million users).
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Albert Lai
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Crystal Lammens
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James Wilcox
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What does Albert Lai invest in?
Albert Lai invests primarily in Analytics, Advertising and Card and Board Games startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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