# Laconia Ventures

> Laconia Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Advertising, Software and SaaS. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Fund size: $5M
- Last fund: Jan 2012
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/2150357
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/LaconiaVentures
- Website: http://www.laconiaventures.com

Laconia Ventures is a New York City-based venture capital firm that provides early-stage funding and strategic resources for inspired entrepreneurs in the information technology sector.Our goal is to work closely with entrepreneurs and their lead investors to build sustained, scalable, competitive advantage by applying our capital, experience,and professional network to their unique ideas and emerging businesses. We invest in companies that leverage technology and crowd-sourced community to disrupt the traditional structure of industries for increased consumer value and market reinvention. We have specific expertise and interest in the Digital Media, Data Analytics, Mobile, Social, and Ad Technology sectors.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $425k–$6.5M |
| Series A | $1.4M–$9.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 10 | 23% |
| Software | 8 | 19% |
| SaaS | 5 | 12% |
| Video | 5 | 12% |
| Mobile | 5 | 12% |

86 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 49% |
| Series A | 7 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 9% |
| Angel | 2 | 5% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 30 | 70% |
| Canada | 3 | 7% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |
| Cayman Islands | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brooklyn Health | Brooklyn Health is a company of clinicians, scientists, and engineers dedicated to enhancing digital health measurement. | $6.5M | Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Trestle | Trestle brings the fragmented construction contracting and procurement process under a single roof using automation, integration, and A.I. to increase process efficiency, data transparency, and provide contractors with a real-time learning loop. Trestle Benchmark let's construction organizations capture reviews on how their vendors perform andcombine this data with other internal and external sources into a single powerful vendor profile for project risk management. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 04, 2024 |  |
| Auxa Health | Auxa Health is a VC-backed healthcare technology firm focused on social care orchestration. Auxa’s tools, technology, and services proactively identify the right benefits for individuals and take on the work of enrollment. Our end-to-end support ensures that people are connected to the resources they need, while reducing the administrative burdenfor individuals, caregivers, and providers. | $5.2M | Seed | Apr 22, 2024 |  |
| Wavy | Wavy empowers people leaders to create amazing company culture, wherever their teams are located. Through our Culture Management Platform and Experiences Marketplace, clients can use Wavy to plan, execute, review, and improve their events and culture and team building initiatives. | $2M | Seed | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Marpipe | Marpipe is a multivariate creative testing platform. | $8M | Series A | Sep 07, 2021 |  |
| Index Coop | The Index Coop is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and the largest provider of on-chain structured decentralized finance (DeFi) products. We’re on a mission to make DeFi simple, secure and accessible to everyone. Index Coop builds sector index products, leverage and inverse products, and yield-generating products, all built on SetProtocol’s twice-audited V2 infrastructure. | $7.7M | Seed | Jul 07, 2021 |  |
| Paloma | Paloma powers e-com on messaging channels, giving brands 2–10X higher conversion rates compared to their websites. This full-suite commerce SaaS platform rapidly generates the most efficient shopping experiences – all while collecting millions of customer data points, seamlessly feeding insights back to brands. | $4M | Seed | Jun 02, 2021 |  |
| Riley | Riley is an artificial intelligence-powered personal assistant. It is used by salespeople to create contacts and store information for them, ready for whenever they need it, taking the work out of working with their CRM. As a result, they can close more deals and build genuine relationships. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| AxoSim | AxoSim is an operator of a biomimetic neuroscience discovery platform used to develop a 3D cell-based platform that looks and acts like a real nerve. The company empowers advancements in human neuroscience and accelerates the drug development process through its drug discovery platforms, NerveSim and BrainSim.AxoSim was founded in 2014 and isbased in New Orleans, Louisiana. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2017 |  |
| Lolleez | Lolleez organic throat soothing pops for kids will be available this Summer. Add your email address to Their list and you’ll be the first to know when and where to get some. |  |  | Mar 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Laconia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laconia) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [New York Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-york-angels) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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- [New York Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-york-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [LaunchPad Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchpad-venture-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Laconia Ventures invest in?

Laconia Ventures invests primarily in Advertising, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 43 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Laconia Ventures's check size?

Laconia Ventures typically joins rounds of $425k–$6.5M at Seed and $1.4M–$9.5M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Laconia Ventures participates in.

### When did Laconia Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Laconia Ventures closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 43 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 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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