# Lance Laking

> Lance Laking is a seed investor at StandUp Ventures (Ottawa) backing Energy and Fitness. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [StandUp Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/standup-ventures-i)
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-laking-1785298/

Lance Laking is a Managing Director and General Partner at Graphite Ventures. He attended Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 1 | 33% |
| Fitness | 1 | 33% |
| Hardware | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Welbi | Welbi improves the quality of life of older adults like our parents and grandparents by transforming the way senior living communities provide care to them every day. We do this by streamlining their processes so staff can spend more time keeping residents active and engaged. This allows them to build deeper connections with residents and stayahead of their changing needs so that no resident is socially isolated. | $2.3M | Seed | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| e-Zinc | Founded in 2012, e-Zinc is a Toronto, Canada, based corporation that has developed a breakthrough electrochemical technology for storing energy in zinc metal. This low-cost, flexible, and long-duration energy storage solution will provide the platform for the world’s energy markets to be fully powered by renewable energy, enabling a zero-carbonenergy future. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 09, 2020 |  |
| Pagecloud | PageCloud is a browser-based website creation platform with a simple goal: to democratize the web, giving the whole world the ability to create and share online. This innovative, professional-grade website creator lets users build and edit websites with a powerful editing experience not seen on the web before.Many world-firsts, like the abilityto import layers directly from Photoshop, make PageCloud the world’s most innovative website creator. No need to code or learn complicated back-end user interfaces, and no rigid templates. Thanks to PageCloud, anyone with a browser and an Internet connection now has the ability to create websites that are truly their own. | $1M | Angel | Sep 30, 2014 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Earth Foundry](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earthfoundry) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Earth Foundry](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-foundry) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-investment-accelerator-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Roach Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roach-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SoGal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sogal-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About StandUp Ventures

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

StandUp Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in female-founded companies in the B2B software and digital health sector.The firm is led by a team of experienced investors who have assembled a diverse advisory committee. The advisory committee is comprised of successful founders, venture investors, and other strategic mentors who willprovide high-touch support to the entrepreneurs. StandUp Ventures catalyzes strong deal flow across Canada from its network and syndicate seed rounds with Angels and US VCs.

3 contacts available at StandUp Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michelle McBane | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michelle-mcbane |
| Lance Laking | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-laking-2 |
| Lauren Epstein | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lauren-epstein |

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## FAQ

### What does Lance Laking invest in?

Lance Laking invests primarily in Energy, Fitness and Hardware startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Lance Laking last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lance Laking closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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