Georgian
VC Fund
Toronto, Canada
Georgian is a fintech company that invests in high growth software companies that harness the power of data in a trustworthy way. They're building a platform to provide a better experience of growth capital to software company CEOs and their teams. Georgian's platform is designed to identify and accelerate the best growth-stage software companies, taking an intelligent, data-first approach to solving the key challenges CEOs face as they grow their businesses. They invest in companies across North America that harness the power of data in a trustworthy way. Based in Toronto and founded in 2008, Georgian’s team brings together software entrepreneurs, machine learning experts, experienced operators, and investment professionals.
- Total investments:
- 199
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 59%
- Fund size:
- $19M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Georgian invests in
Stages Georgian invests in
Countries Georgian invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series B
- $10M–$60M
- Series C
- $15M–$135M
- Series D
- $22M–$200M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 39 (20%)
- Information Technology 26 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 23 (12%)
- SaaS 19 (10%)
- Enterprise Software 16 (8%)
Stage
- Series C 37 (19%)
- Series B 29 (15%)
- Series D 22 (11%)
- Series E 18 (9%)
- Series A 12 (6%)
Country
- United States 62 (31%)
- Canada 19 (10%)
- United Kingdom 3 (2%)
- Brazil 1 (1%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jane Podbelskaya
Senior Associate
|
Senior Associate | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
John Berton
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Justin LaFayette
Managing Partner, Lead Investor & Co-Founder
|
Managing Partner, Lead Investor & Co-Founder | Total investments: 37 | Find email | |
| R&D | Total investments: 2 | Find email | ||
Margaret Wu
Vice President
|
Vice President | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Island is a cyber startup that provides a web browser for the enterprise to allow work to flow freely while remaining secure. It gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile helping the enterprise with improved performance and helping businesses to minimize their cyber footprint and create a safe space forwork to flow, boosting both security and productivity. | $400M / Series F / Sep 24, 2026 | ||
| Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance. | $97.6M / Series A / Jun 30, 2026 | ||
| Supabase provides an open source backend platform for application development, centered around a managed PostgreSQL database and complementary tools. It offers built-in user authentication, real-time subscriptions, file storage, and serverless edge functions within a unified interface. Supabase enabling developers to deploy secure databasesquickly, auto-generate APIs, and focus on building features rather than infrastructure. The company operates with a commitment to open source, contributing to database extensions and community projects. It supports integration with existing Postgres setups and encourages flexibility in scaling and migration. | $500M / Series F / Jun 04, 2026 | ||
| Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $600M / Series G / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| Expo lets you write apps that run on web, iOS, and Android with a single React codebase. Expo is trusted in production by tens of thousands of companies including Brex, Flexport, Valve, Blackline, Cameo, Codecademy, PrettyLittleThing, TriNet, ShapeShift, and Insider and is depended on by over 300,000 projects on GitHub. | $45M / Series B / Apr 16, 2026 | ||
| Replit provides a cloud-based software development platform that allows users to write, run, and deploy applications through a browser-based environment. The platform includes an integrated code editor, terminal, debugging tools, and hosting features that support the creation and deployment of full-stack applications from a single workspace. Replitsupports multiple programming languages and provides preconfigured development environments so projects can start without installing local software.The platform includes collaboration features that enable multiple users to edit and run code within the same project in real time. It also offers AI-assisted coding tools that generate code suggestions, help debug programs, and assist with building applications through natural language prompts. Replit provides project sharing, templates, and integration with external services and repositories to support development workflows. | $400M / Series D / Mar 11, 2026 | ||
| Render offers the easiest cloud for developers and teams to host any application or website. The company’s goal is to completely eliminate the need to manage servers by offering a cloud with the best developer experience combined with incredible flexibility and power. This will ultimately improve all software and enable entirely new kinds ofapplications. Render was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco. | $100M / Series C / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| SurrealDB develops a multi-model database platform designed to handle document, graph, and relational data within a single system. The platform supports SQL-like querying while enabling real-time data synchronization and event-driven updates across applications. It provides built-in features such as authentication, authorization, and access controlat the database layer. SurrealDB operates across various environments, including embedded deployments, single-node instances, and distributed clusters. The system is designed to support modern application development by combining flexible data modeling with transactional consistency and programmable logic inside the database. | $23M / Series A / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Bedrock Robotics delivers enhanced autonomy to the built environment, allowing the construction sector to build at the rate that today's society requires. | $270M / Series B / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| Dominion Dynamics is an advanced technology firm building a dual-use, AI-driven Arctic sensing network designed for both military and civilian applications, focusing on seamless multi-domain coordination and persistent regional surveillance. | $15.1M / Seed / Jan 19, 2026 | ||
| See all 199 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Georgian invest in?
Georgian invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 199 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Georgian invest in?
Georgian typically joins rounds of $10M–$60M at Series B, $15M–$135M at Series C and $22M–$200M at Series D. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Georgian's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Georgian took part in.
How do I contact Georgian?
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Who are the partners at Georgian?
The team at Georgian includes Jane Podbelskaya (Senior Associate), John Berton (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Justin LaFayette (Managing Partner, Lead Investor & Co-Founder), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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