# Albert Lai

> Albert Lai is a seed investor at Big Viking Games backing Analytics. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Big Viking Games](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-viking-games)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/albertlai
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/albertsupdates
- Website: http://simplyalbert.blogspot.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/albertlai

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

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Analytics | 1 | 50% |
| Advertising | 1 | 50% |
| Card and Board Games | 1 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Echo Chunk AI | Echo Chunk builds epic strategy games that generate themselves. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Jul 16, 2024 |  |
| Gallop Labs | 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 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [37 Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/37-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [A16Z GAMES Speedrun](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-games) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders You Should Know](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-you-should-know) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Golden Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mantella Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mantella-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [South Park Commons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/south-park-commons) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Big Viking Games

VC Fund · London, Canada

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).

3 contacts available at Big Viking Games.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Albert Lai | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albert-lai |
| Crystal Lammens | Recruiter | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crystal-lammens |
| James Wilcox | Product Marketing Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-wilcox |

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## FAQ

### 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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### When did Albert Lai last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Albert Lai closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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