# Christian Lawless

> Christian Lawless is a seed investor at Cognition (New York) backing Software and FinTech. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cognition](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cognition-5bd7)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianlawless/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/lawlito
- Website: https://x.com/lawlito

Christian Lawless is a seed investor at Cognition in New York focused on Software and FinTech. Christian Lawless is based out of Washington, District of Columbia and is the Managing Director of Cognition and Founder and Managing Partner of Conversion Capital. Christian previously worked at Barclays as a Capital Markets. Christian Lawless attended the Ohio Wesleyan University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 53% |
| FinTech | 4 | 27% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 27% |
| Security | 3 | 20% |
| Mobile | 2 | 13% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 33% |
| Series A | 4 | 27% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 2 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 73% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pylon | Pylon is the mortgage-lending-as-a-service platform. Build a fully digital mortgage experience using our APIs, pre-built UI components, and capital markets stack. Based in New York, NY. | $8.5M | Seed | Dec 05, 2022 |  |
| Booster | Booster brings fuel directly to customers for the same price as a gas station. Booster is the gas station reinvented. It’s a gas station that comes directly to the offices parking spots, saving them time, money, and the same price as the traditional gas station. Booster provides high-quality gas at competitive prices with free same-day delivery.Booster is offered at hundreds of companies, office parks, and university campuses, as well as to commercial fleets in the San Francisco Bay, Orange County, El Segundo, Newport Beach, and Greater Dallas-Fort Worth areas. Many of the Fortune 100 companies offer Booster to their employees.In addition to offering fuel for consumers, Booster also services hundreds of fleets, coming to yards at night while the fleets are off-duty and saving fleet managers an average of $1500 per vehicle annually.The company has raised more than $88 million in funding from such venture capital firms as Invus Opportunities, Conversion Capital, Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, Version One, Stanford-StartX, and Perot Jain LP. | $125M | Series D | May 25, 2022 |  |
| Vesta | Vesta provides next-generation LOS that enables lenders across the board to build customized workflows that enable a more efficient, easy-to-use, and expedient lending process. | $30M | Series A | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Booster | Booster brings fuel directly to customers for the same price as a gas station. Booster is the gas station reinvented. It’s a gas station that comes directly to the offices parking spots, saving them time, money, and the same price as the traditional gas station. Booster provides high-quality gas at competitive prices with free same-day delivery.Booster is offered at hundreds of companies, office parks, and university campuses, as well as to commercial fleets in the San Francisco Bay, Orange County, El Segundo, Newport Beach, and Greater Dallas-Fort Worth areas. Many of the Fortune 100 companies offer Booster to their employees.In addition to offering fuel for consumers, Booster also services hundreds of fleets, coming to yards at night while the fleets are off-duty and saving fleet managers an average of $1500 per vehicle annually.The company has raised more than $88 million in funding from such venture capital firms as Invus Opportunities, Conversion Capital, Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, Version One, Stanford-StartX, and Perot Jain LP. | $56M | Series C | Jun 25, 2019 |  |
| Alpin | Alpin is *the* single dashboard to monitor and manage your SaaS ecosystem. Alpin cuts subscription costs up to 30% & saves time on SaaS monitoring and management. In just 2 clicks, it discovers the sprawling landscape of SaaS subscriptions -- especially those you don't know. It shows wasted spend, comparing license costs to actual usageand helps you negotiate better deals. It monitors, reports on & archives activity, alerting your IT and Info Security teams to risky activity & dangerous permissions. You can deprovision apps from specific users, or Blacklist an app outright. Alpin is built on a deep and solid security foundation.Bottom line: Alpin can save you 30%, keep you safe from dangerous apps and activity, and give you a full picture of your cloud application landscape. One Dashboard To Rule Them All.Complementing Alpin is Logrr (https://logrr.com), the most secure way to do SSO.Alpin is a proud graduate of the 2015 Techstars Barclays Accelerator in NYC. | $2M | Seed | Jul 26, 2018 |  |
| Figure | Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificialintelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days. | $50M | Series A | May 26, 2018 |  |
| Spherical Defense | Spherical Defence Labs is a cyber security company. They provide penetration testing and vulnerability assessment for startups looking to safeguard their digital infrastructure from cyberattacks. It currently focusses on developing the next gen IDS using AI for banks to detect hackers trying to access and temper their systems. The company alsooffers auditing and consulting services.Spherical Defence Labs was founded by Dishant Shah in 2015, and is headquartered in the United States. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 31, 2018 |  |
| Blend | Blend is a digital lending platform that supports and simplifies applications for mortgages, consumer loans, and deposit accounts.The company helps lenders streamline the customer journey for any banking product from application to close. Its Digital Lending Platform is utilized by Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and over 285 other leading financialinstitutions to acquire more customers, increase productivity, and deepen customer relationships. The company enables customers to process more than $4 billion in mortgages and consumer loans per day, helping millions of consumers get into homes and gain access to the capital they need to lead better lives. Erin Collard, Eugene Marinelli, Nima Ghamsari, and Rosco Hill headquartered the company in San Francisco, California in 2012. | $100M | Series D | Aug 24, 2017 |  |
| Booster | Booster brings fuel directly to customers for the same price as a gas station. Booster is the gas station reinvented. It’s a gas station that comes directly to the offices parking spots, saving them time, money, and the same price as the traditional gas station. Booster provides high-quality gas at competitive prices with free same-day delivery.Booster is offered at hundreds of companies, office parks, and university campuses, as well as to commercial fleets in the San Francisco Bay, Orange County, El Segundo, Newport Beach, and Greater Dallas-Fort Worth areas. Many of the Fortune 100 companies offer Booster to their employees.In addition to offering fuel for consumers, Booster also services hundreds of fleets, coming to yards at night while the fleets are off-duty and saving fleet managers an average of $1500 per vehicle annually.The company has raised more than $88 million in funding from such venture capital firms as Invus Opportunities, Conversion Capital, Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, Version One, Stanford-StartX, and Perot Jain LP. | $20M | Series B | Aug 01, 2017 |  |
| Fauna | Fauna is a data api for modern applications that facilitates rich clients with serverless backends by providing a web-native interface with support for GraphQL and custom business logic, frictionless integration with the serverless ecosystem, a no compromise multi-cloud architecture you can trust and grow with and total freedom from databaseoperations.Innovators like Nextdoor and NVIDIA trust Fauna to power their applications. Backed by premier venture investors Madrona Venture Group, Addition Capital, and GV, Fauna is a 100% remote organization with an experienced leadership team hailing from Microsoft, Okta, Twitter, Elastic, and Oracle. For more information visit fauna.com or follow us at @fauna. | $25M | Series A | Feb 26, 2017 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Madrona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madrona-venture-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Maveron](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maveron) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Perot Jain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/perot-jain) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Version One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/version-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Thomvest Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomvest-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ulu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulu-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Cognition

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

3 contacts available at Cognition.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Walden Yan | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/walden-yan |
| Christian Lawless | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-lawless |
| Scott Wu | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-wu |

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## FAQ

### What does Christian Lawless invest in?

Christian Lawless invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Christian Lawless last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christian Lawless closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 15 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?

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