Allen Lau
Co-Founder and CEO @ Wattpad
Toronto, Canada
Allen Lau is a seed investor at Wattpad in Toronto focused on Fashion and Hardware. As CEO and co-founder of Wattpad, Allen Lau leads the company's efforts to transform the way people around the world discover and share stories. Prior to Wattpad, Allen was the co-founder of FeedM8, a mobile advertising company that was acquired in 2008. In 2001, he co-founded Tira Wireless where he helped leading brands optimize content formobile delivery. Allen received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Toronto’s Electrical Engineering program.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
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Industries Allen Lau invests in
Stages Allen Lau invests in
Countries Allen Lau invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Fashion 1 (20%)
- Hardware 1 (20%)
- Internet 1 (20%)
- Printing 1 (20%)
- Robotics 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (80%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
Country
- Canada 4 (80%)
- United States 1 (20%)
Investments
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Qubic Technologies
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Qubic Technologies is a manufacturer of quantum microwave transmitters and receivers for remote sensing and communication. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 23, 2026 | |
Haply
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Haply is a robotics company that provides haptic devices, prototyping, firmware, and virtual learning assistance. | $11.7M / Seed / Feb 09, 2026 | |
Viggle AI
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Viggle AI is a pioneering Canadian firm that uses artificial intelligence to enable people of all skill levels to easily create high-quality animated video using simple text instructions. | $19.3M / Series A / Aug 26, 2024 | |
Printify
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Printify is the world's most famous print-on-demand platform designed to help anyone with an internet connection unlock the freedom that comes with opening your own online business. And because it’s completely risk free, more than 10 million people have signed up to open their stores! We created Printify so that anyone can create greatproducts, drive sales, and unlock their freedom. Printify has been on a steep growth curve since 2015, and now with more than 700 employees, three offices, and an amazing diverse team spread around Europe, we’re continuing to go from strength to strength. The Financial Times has ranked us as a Best Startup Employer for the last 4 years in a row, and we’re headquartered in Riga with investment backing from Richard Branson, Index Ventures, and some of the best angel investors from Silicon Valley and beyond. | $3M / Seed / May 09, 2019 | |
Gallop Labs
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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 |
Co-Investors
About Wattpad
Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.The company utilizes the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios co-produces stories for film, television, digital, and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.It was established by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006.
Wattpad Contacts
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Ivan Yuen
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder
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Allen Lau
Co-Founder and CEO
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Bert Amato
Investor
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Daniel Budlovsky
CFO
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Daniel Kenny-Godoy
Director of Ad Operations & Programmatic
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What does Allen Lau invest in?
Allen Lau invests primarily in Fashion, Hardware and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 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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The most recent investment recorded for Allen Lau closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 5 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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