# Edward Lando

> Edward Lando is a seed investor at Gordian Industries backing Software and FinTech. See 495 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Gordian Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gordian-industries)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 495
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 1%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardlando
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/edwardlando
- Website: http://www.edwardlando.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edward.lando

Edward Lando is a seed investor at Gordian Industries in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $975k–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$3.4M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 112 | 23% |
| FinTech | 55 | 11% |
| Health Care | 54 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 54 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 48 | 10% |

337 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 240 | 48% |
| Pre-Seed | 155 | 31% |
| Series A | 29 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 17 | 3% |
| Angel | 13 | 3% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 245 | 49% |
| United Kingdom | 37 | 7% |
| France | 34 | 7% |
| Canada | 16 | 3% |
| India | 11 | 2% |

31 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Omen AI | Omen AI develops an AI-powered asset intelligence platform that monitors equipment health through real-time fluid analysis and predictive diagnostics. The company provides sensor technology and portable testing systems that analyze fluids in machinery to identify wear, contamination, and potential equipment issues before failures occur. Omen AIcombines hardware sensors with AI-driven data analysis to help organizations monitor industrial machines and infrastructure systems. The platform supports applications such as industrial equipment maintenance and data center fluid monitoring by providing continuous insights into machine conditions. | $31M | Series A | Jun 29, 2026 |  |
| Heywa Labs | Heywa Labs develops Generative UX (GenUX), an AI-driven interface layer that creates dynamic, adaptive user experiences beyond static text or links. Their flagship app, Heywa, delivers visual, tappable "stories" of cards for tasks like cooking, travel, fitness, and DIY, reconfiguring in real-time based on user interactions. | $5M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Allonic | Allonic is a robotics hardware company pioneering 3D Tissue Braiding, a new manufacturing platform for producing integrated, compliant, bio-inspired robotic bodies through a single, fully automated production process. By eliminating assembly-heavy designs and supply-chain complexity, Allonic enables significantly faster iteration, lower costs, andsafer, more dexterous robots to be built. Originally founded from Hungary and operating internationally with a US HQ and a growing team of 15, Allonic is building the hardware foundation for the next generation of intelligent machines. | $7.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Omen AI | Omen AI develops an AI-powered asset intelligence platform that monitors equipment health through real-time fluid analysis and predictive diagnostics. The company provides sensor technology and portable testing systems that analyze fluids in machinery to identify wear, contamination, and potential equipment issues before failures occur. Omen AIcombines hardware sensors with AI-driven data analysis to help organizations monitor industrial machines and infrastructure systems. The platform supports applications such as industrial equipment maintenance and data center fluid monitoring by providing continuous insights into machine conditions. | $10.5M | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Humera | Humera develops AI-based solutions for CAPTCHA and bot detection, focusing on minimizing user disruption during online verification processes. Its technology uses real-time machine learning to identify bots and prevent fraud without relying on traditional visible CAPTCHA challenges. The system aims to help platforms detect automated activity whilemaintaining user privacy and reducing friction for legitimate users. | $880.5K | Seed | Sep 07, 2025 |  |
| Huskeys | The New Brain for Web App Security. It's not a WAF; It's a whole new ecosystem. |  | Seed | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Superscale AI | Superscale AI is a marketing services company that helps the users to create content in social media platform. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Plakar | Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io. | $3M | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2025 |  |
| Hidden Studios | Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Acorn Genetics | Acorn Genetics is building a precision genomics platform for decentralized, low-cost, & automated nanopore sequencing |  | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |

10 of 495 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 373 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 51 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 38 deals together
- [Quiet Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quiet-capital) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 20 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 17 deals together

## About Gordian Industries

VC Fund · New York, United States

Gordian Industries Improving Retail Operations with Advanced Computer Vision.

1 contacts available at Gordian Industries.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Edward Lando | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-lando |

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## FAQ

### What does Edward Lando invest in?

Edward Lando invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 495 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 Edward Lando's check size?

Edward Lando typically joins rounds of $975k–$7M at Seed, $125k–$3.4M at Pre-Seed and $5.5M–$37M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Edward Lando participates in.

### When did Edward Lando last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Edward Lando closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 495 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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