John Landry
Angel Investor
Boston, United States
John Landry is a seed investor in Boston focused on News and EBooks. John Landry is based out of Boston, Massachusetts, and is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Lead Dog Ventures. John previously worked at IBM as a Vice President. John Landry attended the Babson College.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries John Landry invests in
Stages John Landry invests in
Countries John Landry invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $300k–$1.1M
- Angel
- $135k–$230k
Investment Focus
Industry
- News 2 (22%)
- EBooks 2 (22%)
- Finance 2 (22%)
- Internet 2 (22%)
- Publishing 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (33%)
- Angel 1 (11%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peach partner with local restaurants to curate lunch for companies across the greater metro areas of Seattle, Boston, Phoenix, and beyond. Their focus is to boost workday energy by bringing wholesome and fulfilling lunches. Peach was awarded Geekwire Top 200 Pacific Northwest Start-Ups in 2015.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered inSeattle, Washington. | Series B / Jun 19, 2018 | ||
| Zagster is a transportation provider offering turnkey bike-sharing systems. The company designs, builds, and operates private bike-sharing programs for universities, corporate campuses, hotels, and residential communities across the United States.Moreover, Zagster provides customers a complete bike sharing solution - including system design,installation, sharing technology, maintenance, rider support, and marketing services.Zagster was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. | $1M / Oct 18, 2012 | ||
| Provider of an online publishing platform designed to connect readers with books. The company's online publishing platform offers authors to gain visibility and promote their work and increase their following, enabling authors to do a marketing for their books. | $1.1M / Seed / Oct 03, 2012 | ||
| Libboo connects buzzers (readers who love to share and talk about books) with books they'll enjoy, to create the next digital bestseller and help talented authors get discovered. Buzzers get rewards such as free ebooks, and increase their influence by sharing great writing with their friends and followers via social media, email, and otheronline channels. | $300K / Seed / Dec 06, 2011 | ||
| Flywire is a payments enablement and software company. It combines its proprietary payments network, next-gen payments platform, and vertical-specific software to deliver the most important and complex payments for clients and their customers.Flywire supports 4,000 + clients with diverse payment methods in more than 140 currencies across 240countries and territories around the world. Flywire is headquartered in Boston, MA, USA with global offices. | $1.1M / Seed / Oct 28, 2010 | ||
| The most innovative, exciting products—and the people behind them—deserve a voice. That’s where you and The Grommet come in.The Grommet is your online shop for discovering independent Makers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Every weekday we reveal innovative new products and give you the full story behind them. Led by Co-founder & CEO JulesPieri, The Grommet is reshaping the way people launch, discover, share, influence, and buy products online. Our mission is rooted in Citizen Commerce®, where each of us exercises economic clout by supporting businesses whose values reflect our own—like sustainability, underrepresented entrepreneurs, or products Made in The USA. Since 2008, The Grommet has launched more than 2,000 products (or "Grommets") in 16 categories. Through our selection and storytelling we spotlight products for our community of more than 2.7 million supporters in the U.S. Only 3% of the products reviewed by our Discovery Team are selected for launch. As of April 2016, The Grommet has purchased more than $40 million worth of inventory from our Makers. Many of the products we’ve launched have gone on to great success. Some have even become household names, like Bananagrams, Bondic, Cuppow, FitBit, GoldieBlox, IdeaPaint, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day, OtterBox, Plumen, PocketMonkey, SodaStream, Sugru, PocketMonkey, and Yogibo, among others. In 2014, at the first-ever White House Maker Faire, The Grommet Wholesale was launched to help Makers distribute their products direct to Main Street Retailers and national chains. As of April 2016, more than 1,000 products are available to 6,500 retailers. | $3.4M / Series A / Apr 15, 2010 | ||
| oneforty is the Social Business Hub. We're a buyers' guide for businesses who want to invest wisely in doing social right.Social business is shaping up to be a huge market opportunity plagued by massive complexity and uncertainty about how to invest in tools, training and expertise. We're serve as the "buyers'guide" for social strategists, marketers and other corporate buyers. * B2B platform for figuring out what to do in social business and how to invest your budget in tools, experts and other services* access to your peers - find out what others are doing and how you measure up* Business content helping buyers understand what to do, how to do it and which tools and experts can help* Listings/ratings & reviews of: tools and social business pros (agencies and consultants)* Discovery & comparisons engine (and marketing platform) for serious business tools | $135K / Angel / Oct 05, 2009 | ||
| oneforty is the Social Business Hub. We're a buyers' guide for businesses who want to invest wisely in doing social right.Social business is shaping up to be a huge market opportunity plagued by massive complexity and uncertainty about how to invest in tools, training and expertise. We're serve as the "buyers'guide" for social strategists, marketers and other corporate buyers. * B2B platform for figuring out what to do in social business and how to invest your budget in tools, experts and other services* access to your peers - find out what others are doing and how you measure up* Business content helping buyers understand what to do, how to do it and which tools and experts can help* Listings/ratings & reviews of: tools and social business pros (agencies and consultants)* Discovery & comparisons engine (and marketing platform) for serious business tools | $230K / Angel / Jun 10, 2009 | ||
| Libboo connects buzzers (readers who love to share and talk about books) with books they'll enjoy, to create the next digital bestseller and help talented authors get discovered. Buzzers get rewards such as free ebooks, and increase their influence by sharing great writing with their friends and followers via social media, email, and otheronline channels. | Seed |
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FAQ
What does John Landry invest in?
John Landry invests primarily in News, EBooks and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 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 John Landry invest in?
John Landry typically joins rounds of $300k–$1.1M at Seed and $135k–$230k at Angel. These are whole funding-round sizes, not John Landry's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds John Landry took part in.
How do I contact John Landry?
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When did John Landry last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Landry closed in Jun 2018. Shizune tracks 9 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 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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