# Lance Dietz

> Lance Dietz is a seed investor at KB Partners (Highland Park) backing Sports and Mobile Apps. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [KB Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kb-partners)
- Location: Highland Park, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 62%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lancedietz
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lancedietz
- Website: https://www.kbpartners.com/

Lance Dietz is a seed investor at KB Partners in Highland Park focused on Sports and Mobile Apps. Lance Dietz joined KB Partners in 2018 as part of the investment team.Prior to joining KB Partners, Lance was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan where he managed M&A and capital raising transactions for companies in the building products, packaging and distribution sectors. Previously, he served for five years as an Engineer Officer in theU.S. Army with assignments in Germany, Afghanistan and the U.S.Lance is an honor graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was recruited to play men's Division I basketball, and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is an improving golfer, intermediate snowboarder, avid traveler and dabbling magician.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sports | 3 | 23% |
| Mobile Apps | 3 | 23% |
| Gaming | 2 | 15% |
| Outdoors | 2 | 15% |
| Social Network | 2 | 15% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 69% |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 46% |
| Canada | 2 | 15% |
| France | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bookseats | BookSeats.com started with a simple question; with events and travel being obvious complements, why was there no platform that allowed fans to customize sports or event tickets, flights, and hotel packages under one roof?BookSeats.com's mission is to bridge that gap and connect these services that otherwise were only offered by separateproviders | $1M | Seed | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| Kaya Climb | Kaya Climb is a climber’s app designed to connect users with the gym and local climbing community and find and share beta. It enables climbers to build an ascent pyramid, and review past climbing sessions. The company was founded in 2019 when a crew of climbers and technologists got together to create a platform for the climbing community. |  | Seed | Sep 23, 2022 |  |
| Goss | Goss is a maker of a social gaming platform that enables users to wager on things and events according to what they like. Women can wager on social and fashion events using the company's application in a fun and social setting because it offers social games for web and mobile settings. |  | Seed | Aug 08, 2022 |  |
| Stadium Live Studios | Stadium Live Studios is a sports community platform that creates a virtual playground where fans can hang out, play games, buy and earn digital collectibles, and express their individuality. Stadium Live Studios aims to be the go-to destination for next-gen sports and culture fans. | $10M | Series A | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| StatusPro | StatusPro is a sports technology company that combines data with augmented and virtual reality to provide a suite of training and gaming products. | $5.2M | Seed | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| ASENSEI | ASENSEI provides everything a technology company needs to add motion capture (3D Computer Vision and Connected Apparel) and activity-specific understanding and coaching to their product or service.(APP)AREL AND (APP)ERTUREWe provide sensors harnesses and firmware to apparel companies, and 3D computer vision to apps and fitness products, thatare interoperable.ASENSEI.AI SDKWe provide a cross-platform software development kit to third party developers so that they can easily add motion capture powered experiences to their products and apps.TECHNIQUE LIBRARYAn ever-growing library of exercises and associated coaching cues, progressions and regressions that further reduce a partner’s time to market.COACHING BLUEPRINTSDeliver high-value use-cases out of the box, with prefabricated solution accelerators.(APP)AREL Bring real-time motion capture to your platform via ASENSEI connected apparel.(APP)ERTURE Bring real-time motion capture to your platform via ASENSEI 3D computer vision using an ordinary RGB camera.REAL-TIME COACHING Never miss a movement. Count reps and motivate practice. Identify common movement flaws and cue your customers with real-time corrections.INSTRUCTIONAL LEARNING Onboard new customers through instructional teaching of your platform's common movements.MOVEMENT SCREEN The smarter way to warm up. Identify imbalance, tightness, asymmetry. Warm up intelligently, adjust programming or recommend cross-modality training.TRAINING JOURNAL Provide post-workout feedback, coaching notes, skill practice suggestions and progress tracking.DOJO Train asensei to recognize and understand posture and movement. | $2.2M | Seed | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| Compliable | Compliable helps companies in the real money transaction space obtain and manage the licenses they need to be in compliance across all the jurisdictions they operate in. | $1.7M | Seed | May 25, 2021 |  |
| Pandascore | PandaScore provides statistics and odds for the top esports competitions globally. We’re building the data infrastructure that will take the industry to the next level using AI and deep esports expertise. Top teams, bookmakers, fantasy apps, and media companies use PandaScore to get the best esports data. Join us and take part in building thefuture of esports. | $5.3M | Series A | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Pandascore | PandaScore provides statistics and odds for the top esports competitions globally. We’re building the data infrastructure that will take the industry to the next level using AI and deep esports expertise. Top teams, bookmakers, fantasy apps, and media companies use PandaScore to get the best esports data. Join us and take part in building thefuture of esports. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Stadium Live Studios | Stadium Live Studios is a sports community platform that creates a virtual playground where fans can hang out, play games, buy and earn digital collectibles, and express their individuality. Stadium Live Studios aims to be the go-to destination for next-gen sports and culture fans. | $3M | Seed | Jul 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Origins Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/origins-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alven](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alven-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maple VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maple-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [V13 Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/v13-invest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [305 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/305-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About KB Partners

VC Fund · Highland Park, United States

KB Partners is a suburban Chicago based investment firm focused on early stage venture capital investments. KB’s principals take an active approach in helping to build dominant new enterprises by working in partnership with talented entrepreneurs and experienced managers.The firm is currently investing out of KB Partners Myriad Opportunity Fund I& II, which invests in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.

5 contacts available at KB Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lance Dietz | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-dietz |
| Stephan Ahern | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephan-ahern |
| John Garabedian | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-garabedian-ca69 |
| Keith Bank | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keith-bank |
| Matt Howard | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-howard-8699 |

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## FAQ

### What does Lance Dietz invest in?

Lance Dietz invests primarily in Sports, Mobile Apps and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Lance Dietz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lance Dietz closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 13 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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