# John Laban

> John Laban is a seed investor in Toronto backing Software and Mobile Apps. See 2 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-laban/

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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 50% |
| Productivity Tools | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mayday | Mayday is a calendar assistant that helps you sustainably increase productivity while reducing the potential for burnout | $3M | Seed | Mar 07, 2022 | http://mayday.am |
| Modem | 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 |  | https://modem.dev/ |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Rogue Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rogue-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Colle Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colle-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ff Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ff-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Globalive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/globalive-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### 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.

### How do I contact John Laban?

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### When did John Laban last invest?

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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