# Joy Lindsay

> Joy Lindsay is a funding round investor at StarTec Investments backing Mobile. See 2 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [StarTec Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startec-investments)
- Location: Minneapolis, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Nov 2014
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-lindsay-0a11473

Joy Lindsay is a funding round investor at StarTec Investments in Minneapolis focused on Mobile and Parenting. Joy Lindsay is President and co-founder of StarTec Investments, LLC, a private venture capital firm that has been investing in high-tech companies since 1998. In addition to her role at StarTec, Ms. Lindsay is a manager of the Sofia Fund, a fund focused on making early stage investments in companies founded by or led by women. She is also a memberof the Gopher Angels, a group of angel investors who share screening and due diligence.Ms. Lindsay is a member and past chair of the Minnesota High Tech Association board of directors, is a member of the Advisory Board at the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Minnesota, and has served as Secretary and Vice-President of the Minnesota Venture Capital Association. She is a judge for the Minnesota Cup business plan competition and serves on the Planning Committee for the Annual Minnesota Venture Conference.Prior to founding StarTec, Ms. Lindsay was a Senior Vice President in the Westlaw division of West Publishing (now Thomson Reuters). She started her career at West in software development, and held numerous leadership positions in IT, customer support, account management and sales. She has a B.A. in mathematics from Carleton College and an M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 50% |
| Parenting | 1 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 50% |
| Communities | 1 | 50% |
| Marketplace | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 1 | 50% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kidizen | Kidizen is the parent-to-parent community for buying, sharing, and selling kidstyle. | $530K | Convertible Note | Nov 10, 2014 | http://www.kidizen.com |
| FieldSolutions | FieldSolutions (www.fieldsolutions.com) is the highest quality, lowest cost provider of contingent field service resources serving the technology industry.FieldSolutions serves the world’s leading technology enterprises including 18 OEM’s and over 30 enterprises with revenues in excess of $1Billion. Our technician sourcing and work ordermanagement service range includes: on-line self-service platform, management of large scale global field service deployment programs, strategic solutions for complex and mission critical field service, and technician long-term staff leasing.FieldSolutions’ 40,000+ independent technicians throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and five global technology service partners with employees throughout 86 countries are selected, vetted and developed to assure quality field service performance.FieldSolutions serves a broad range of technologies, including: PC’s, copiers and printers, datacenter support, telephony, routers, cabling, POS, CCTV/security, ATM’s and kiosks, and related equipment. | $1.5M |  | Jul 01, 2010 | http://www.fieldsolutions.com |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## About StarTec Investments

VC Fund · Minneapolis, United States

StarTec Investments is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology companies. It seeks investment opportunities in companies that have experienced management teams, proprietary technologies, validation in the markets, value propositions, growing markets, and Minnesota-based companies. The portfolio businesses of the company areApprise Technologies, Bewiki, Compellent Technologies, FieldSolutions, Gentra Systems, and HALO Innovations.StarTec is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1998 by Joy Lindsay and Thomas McLeod.

1 contacts available at StarTec Investments.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Joy Lindsay | CEO and President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joy-lindsay |

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## FAQ

### What does Joy Lindsay invest in?

Joy Lindsay invests primarily in Mobile, Parenting and E-Commerce startups, most often at Funding Round and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Joy Lindsay?

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### When did Joy Lindsay last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joy Lindsay closed in Nov 2014. 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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