# Lance Priebe

> Lance Priebe is a seed investor at Hyper Hippo Games backing eSports, SaaS and Gaming. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hyper Hippo Games](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyper-hippo-games)
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lancepriebe
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/lancepriebe
- Website: https://rocketsnail.com

Lance Priebe is a seed investor at Hyper Hippo Games focused on eSports and SaaS. Lance Priebe is the Founder of Hyper Hippo Entertainment.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $183k–$538k |
| Angel | $75k–$424k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| eSports | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Gaming | 1 | 14% |
| Big Data | 1 | 14% |
| Children | 1 | 14% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 3 | 43% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nurture | Nurture is a new app for children aged 4 to 7, featuring interactive information and games to keep them interested. The company's objective is to teach children important life skills including socializing, basic financial understanding, mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and more through story-based journeys in which they may actively engage. | $2.8M | Pre-Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |
| PLAYR.gg | PLAYR.gg was a technology platform that enables enterprise brands to generate, segment, and activate first-party customer data. The brand was sunset and merged into the Surf brand in February 2022 following the acquisition by Trufan, Inc. |  | Series A | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| PLAYR.gg | PLAYR.gg was a technology platform that enables enterprise brands to generate, segment, and activate first-party customer data. The brand was sunset and merged into the Surf brand in February 2022 following the acquisition by Trufan, Inc. | $1M |  | Oct 25, 2019 |  |
| WTFast | WTFast is the Gamers Private Network (GPN). Our goal is to have the fastest and most secure network on the Internet. While we currently have a large addressable market with MMO and eSports segments, we aim to have the must have infrastructure for the emerging VR/AR market to ensure a smooth connection without motion sickness for sophisticatedonline games. | $423.5K | Angel | Sep 18, 2017 |  |
| WTFast | WTFast is the Gamers Private Network (GPN). Our goal is to have the fastest and most secure network on the Internet. While we currently have a large addressable market with MMO and eSports segments, we aim to have the must have infrastructure for the emerging VR/AR market to ensure a smooth connection without motion sickness for sophisticatedonline games. | $75K | Angel | Dec 31, 2015 |  |
| Two Hat Security | Two Hat’s AI-powered content moderation platform classifies, filters, and escalates more than 30 billion human interactions, including messages, usernames, images, and videos a month, all in real-time. With an emphasis on surfacing online harms including cyber-bullying, abuse, hate speech, violent threats, and child exploitation, we enable clientsacross a variety of social networks to foster safe and healthy user experiences.More than just a filter, we also provide an all-in-one content moderation solution, with data analysis, content escalations, flexible workflows, auto-moderated user reports, and more. Two Hat’s Community Sift is an enterprise-level AI-powered content moderation platform with a full suite of customizable tools, including chat filter, username, image and video that automatically removes bullying, harassment, hate speech, adult content, and other disruptive behavior from your platform.Powered by Two Hat, Sift Ninja is the world's smartest profanity filter for all social platforms. Powered by the same robust content classifiers as Two Hat’s Community Sift, think of Sift Ninja as “Community Sift Lite,” or “Community Sift for Startups”. An essentials-only profanity filter tool that automatically filters the worst content, including vulgarity, sexting, and racism | $538K | Seed | Oct 10, 2015 |  |
| Two Hat Security | Two Hat’s AI-powered content moderation platform classifies, filters, and escalates more than 30 billion human interactions, including messages, usernames, images, and videos a month, all in real-time. With an emphasis on surfacing online harms including cyber-bullying, abuse, hate speech, violent threats, and child exploitation, we enable clientsacross a variety of social networks to foster safe and healthy user experiences.More than just a filter, we also provide an all-in-one content moderation solution, with data analysis, content escalations, flexible workflows, auto-moderated user reports, and more. Two Hat’s Community Sift is an enterprise-level AI-powered content moderation platform with a full suite of customizable tools, including chat filter, username, image and video that automatically removes bullying, harassment, hate speech, adult content, and other disruptive behavior from your platform.Powered by Two Hat, Sift Ninja is the world's smartest profanity filter for all social platforms. Powered by the same robust content classifiers as Two Hat’s Community Sift, think of Sift Ninja as “Community Sift Lite,” or “Community Sift for Startups”. An essentials-only profanity filter tool that automatically filters the worst content, including vulgarity, sexting, and racism | $183K | Seed | Dec 17, 2013 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ark Canada Investment Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ark-canada-investment-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atrium Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atrium-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aventrock Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aventrock-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BITKRAFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitkraft-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Broad Street Bulls](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/broad-street-bulls) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [G FUEL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gfuel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hyper Hippo Games

VC Fund



2 contacts available at Hyper Hippo Games.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lance Priebe | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-priebe |
| David Fairfield | Music Composer, Sound Designer, Coach | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-fairfield |

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## FAQ

### What does Lance Priebe invest in?

Lance Priebe invests primarily in eSports, SaaS and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lance Priebe's check size?

Lance Priebe typically joins rounds of $183k–$538k at Seed and $75k–$424k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lance Priebe participates in.

### When did Lance Priebe last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lance Priebe closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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