John Laban
Angel Investor
Toronto, Canada
John Laban is a software engineer, entrepreneur, startup advisor, and angel investor. He is a co-founder and the current CEO of OpsLevel.Previously, John was the first employee of PagerDuty, an incident management and operations SaaS company. Over 7.5 years and many different roles, he helped grow and scale PagerDuty from four to 400 people andfrom $0 to $100MM in ARR. At PagerDuty, John’s focus was on leadership in engineering and product development.In a past life, John built an engineering services company to 50+ talented employees and saw it through an acquisition. He also worked at Amazon, helping bring new ML techniques to the risk management space.John was born and raised in Sudbury, went to school in Waterloo, lived in San Francisco, Vancouver, and Seattle, and currently calls Toronto home.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries John Laban invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 1 (50%)
- Mobile Apps 1 (50%)
- Productivity Tools 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Mayday is a calendar assistant that helps you sustainably increase productivity while reducing the potential for burnout | $3M / Seed / Mar 07, 2022 | ||
| Modem is a developer of infrastructure that enables AI agents to access blockchain networks, interact with decentralized applications, and execute on-chain actions. The platform provides tools, APIs, and protocols that connect language models and autonomous agents with Web3 ecosystems. Modem supports agent-driven workflows involving blockchain dataaccess, transaction execution, and decentralized application interactions. | $4.4M / Pre-Seed |
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What does John Laban invest in?
John Laban invests primarily in Software, Mobile Apps and Productivity Tools startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for John Laban closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 2 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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