# Ben Lang

> Ben Lang is a seed investor at Notion (San Francisco) backing Software and Information Technology. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Notion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notion-so)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmlang
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/benln
- Website: http://www.benlang.me
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/benjaminlang

Ben Lang is a seed investor at Notion in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Ben Lang is the Head of Community at Notion. Ben Lang attended Ramaz School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$2M |
| Series B | $30M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 44% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 25% |
| Internet | 3 | 19% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 56% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 50% |
| Norway | 2 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vybe | Vybe is a software company that provides pre-built integrations and AI tools for users to develop and launch internal AI-powered apps. | $10M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Alta | Alta leverages data and AI to drive business growth 24/7. | $7M | Seed | Mar 04, 2025 |  |
| PromptLayer | The first dev platform for prompt engineering. Based in NYC. | $4.8M | Seed | Feb 07, 2025 |  |
| Atlas | Atlas is an all-in-one platform for creating, collaborating on, and sharing custom maps and performing geospatial analysis. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2024 |  |
| Atlas.co | Your all-in-one map builder | $2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2024 |  |
| Passionfroot | Passionfroot develops creator marketing software that helps businesses discover creators, manage campaigns, process payments, and measure campaign performance. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to support campaign planning, creator matching, outreach, workflow management, analytics, and reporting across social media and content platforms. | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| Tildei | Tildei is on a mission to change the way marketing happens by enabling brands to hold real conversations in a radically simple way. We believe the future of marketing is conversational, and we are building the next generation platform to support enterprise brands to have meaningful conversations with their customers, at scale.Our platform allowsenterprise brands to reach customers where they already are and conduct meaningful, AI-powered conversations to enable on-brand yet personalized conversations with all the guardrails. | $6M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| sintra.ai | Sintra builds easy-to-use AI digital assistants for small business owners to automate tasks in social media, sales, recruiting and more. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2024 |  |
| Quantia | Quantia is the world's first holistic solution that helps boost sales for consumer brands with AI-driven recommendations. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | May 20, 2024 |  |
| Quantia | Quantia is the world's first holistic solution that helps boost sales for consumer brands with AI-driven recommendations. | $1.2M | Seed | May 20, 2024 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Inovo.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovo-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Pale blue dot](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pale-blue-dot-3a83) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [s16vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s16vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SignalFire](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/signal-fire) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Notion

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Notion is for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. The app blends everyday work apps into one. It serves as an all-in-one workspace for note-taking, task management, and project management. The app can be accessed via most web browsers.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Additional offices are locatedin New York City, Tokyo, Seoul, Dublin, and Hyderabad.

5 contacts available at Notion.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ada Draginda | Data Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ada-draginda |
| Atul Varma | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atul-varma |
| Camille Ricketts | Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/camille-ricketts |
| Ian Hansborough | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-hansborough |
| Marc Hiney | Enterprise Sales | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-hiney |

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## FAQ

### What does Ben Lang invest in?

Ben Lang invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ben Lang's check size?

Ben Lang typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$10M at Seed, $1.2M–$2M at Pre-Seed and $30M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ben Lang participates in.

### When did Ben Lang last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ben Lang closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 16 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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