James Lochrie
Managing/Capital Partner; Managing/Capital Partner @ Thin Air Labs
Calgary, Canada
James Lochrie is an entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist and volunteer. He is the Co-founder of the global fintech company Wave. He is a Partner at Thin Air Labs, overseeing Thin Air Fund 1 and the Capital team. He has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs to help them scale their companies and #BuildWhatsNext.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
Last updated:
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Industries James Lochrie invests in
Stages James Lochrie invests in
Countries James Lochrie invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$5.2M
- Angel
- $550k–$1.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $274k–$560k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (38%)
- SaaS 3 (23%)
- Analytics 3 (23%)
- Health Care 3 (23%)
- Billing 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (38%)
- Angel 3 (23%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (15%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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PayShepherd
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PayShepherd is a fintech platform that helps you manage your contractor billing.They ensure that your facility is billed the right amount every time, avoiding overages that can cost you serious money over time. PayShepherd improves communication between facilities and contractors, ensuring pay is fair and accurate for everyone. | $5.2M / Seed / Mar 06, 2024 | |
Clinify Inc
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Medical records are barely digitized in Africa. The lack of digitally centralized health records has led to a large number of preventable deaths as a result of wrong and self diagnosis by patients due to poor to no medical histories, paper record mismatch, long wait times and missed revenue opportunities. There is also a shortage of healthcarepractitioners and a lack of stable healthcare infrastructure.We are building a health information management system that leverages the capabilities of Artificial intelligence. Our solution cuts wait time in half, enables users to easily access, populate, own and centralize their health records. This allows them to control and better understand their encounters, book appointments via a web portal and mobile app, have virtual consultation with healthcare professionals and providers while running it on a low cost infrastructure without affecting system performance. | $1.5M / Seed / Feb 13, 2023 | |
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PayShepherd
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PayShepherd is a fintech platform that helps you manage your contractor billing.They ensure that your facility is billed the right amount every time, avoiding overages that can cost you serious money over time. PayShepherd improves communication between facilities and contractors, ensuring pay is fair and accurate for everyone. | $3M / Seed / Jun 07, 2022 | |
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PayShepherd
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PayShepherd is a fintech platform that helps you manage your contractor billing.They ensure that your facility is billed the right amount every time, avoiding overages that can cost you serious money over time. PayShepherd improves communication between facilities and contractors, ensuring pay is fair and accurate for everyone. | $559.8K / Pre-Seed / Apr 21, 2021 | |
SomaDetect
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SomaDetect is the world’s premier machine learning and artificial intelligence company in dairy. SomaDetect provides real-time, automated analysis of milk quality without any addition of chemicals or consumables. The company measures every compound of interest in raw milk, enabling farmers to identify issues early, manage reproduction, reduceunnecessary antibiotic usage, and ensure that only the highest-quality milk makes it into bulk milk supplies. Founded in 2016, SomaDetect provides dairy farmers with information about herd health and milk quality, where and when they need it most. | Angel / Jan 01, 2021 | |
StellarAlgo
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Stellaralgo helps organizations to organize, analyze, and leverage the data they need to make successful business decisions. Through its SaaS data platform, it enables live audience business decision-making that empowers properties to create the best experience for the world’s most passionate fans. | $1.5M / Seed / Jul 29, 2020 | |
Mikata Health
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Mikata Health is a digital health company that helps patients and doctors work together for better health.Today’s tools burden doctors, while sidelining patients. We’re designing tools that give patients convenient access to primary care, while optimizing their doctor’s day. | $1.1M / Seed / Nov 01, 2019 | |
Nimble Science
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Nimble Science Ltd., a digital health company commercializing the first end-to-end GI intelligence platform using the SIMBA capsule for multi-omic mapping of the GI tract. | $274K / Pre-Seed / Jun 12, 2019 | |
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StellarAlgo
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Stellaralgo helps organizations to organize, analyze, and leverage the data they need to make successful business decisions. Through its SaaS data platform, it enables live audience business decision-making that empowers properties to create the best experience for the world’s most passionate fans. | $1M / Seed / Jun 14, 2018 | |
Athennian
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Athennian integrates all the services you need to manage your contract operations in one place. From digital signature to approval workflows. No extra subscriptions or clunky software. | $550K / Angel / May 03, 2018 | |
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Co-Investors
About Thin Air Labs
Thin Air Labs is the leading investment firm in Canada focused on the growth asset class in innovation and technology. We currently have 24 companies in our portfolio. We believe in igniting venture growth for greater human impact.
Thin Air Labs Contacts
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James Lochrie
Managing/Capital Partner; Managing/Capital Partner
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Jim Gibson
Partner
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Rick Bird
COO
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FAQ
What does James Lochrie invest in?
James Lochrie invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is James Lochrie's check size?
James Lochrie typically joins rounds of $1M–$5.2M at Seed, $550k–$1.1M at Angel and $274k–$560k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds James Lochrie participates in.
When did James Lochrie last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for James Lochrie closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 13 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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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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