# Lance Wiggs

> Lance Wiggs is a seed investor at Couchdrop backing Software and Information Technology. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Couchdrop](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/couchdrop)
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lancewiggs
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/lancewiggs
- Website: http://lancewiggs.com/

Lance Wiggs is a seed investor at Couchdrop in Auckland focused on Software and Information Technology. Founder at My Tours

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| Training | 2 | 17% |
| Health Care | 2 | 17% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 17% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series B | 3 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 8 | 67% |
| United States | 2 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Couchdrop | Couchdrop is your next-generation cloud SFTP and MFT platform. Through acting as your conduit between systems or clients to your cloud storage backend, Couchdrop saves time by automating file workflows and ensuring its scalable infrastructure removes the headache from your engineering team. Couchdrop's detailed enterprise grade auditing andlogging provides more granularity and traceability on your file transfers and file operations.Couchdrop supports the likes of SharePoint, Dropbox, S3, Azure Blob storages which provides you full control and visibility of your data at rest and means Couchdrop does not store or sync data at any stage of the process. Real-time file transfer like it should be. |  | Seed | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| Whip Around | Whip Around develops and builds solutions that tackle the paper-based compliance burden for a wide variety of transport companies in the United States and around the world. Effortlessly manage your fleet inspections, compliance, preventative maintenance, work orders, reporting & more! Create powerful checklists for your assets. Have yourdrivers conduct inspections anywhere, anytime via the Whip Around mobile app. Get alerts sent to you immediately, view the reports from the management dashboard and manage faults with ease. Come see why more than 85,000 users globally love Whip Around. Trial Whip Around free for 7 days! | $14M | Series B | Dec 16, 2021 |  |
| Quantifi Photonics | Coherent Solutions has been enabling engineers and researchers to fully characterize optical pulses. Our skills, experience, and capabilities have grown and so has the market. | $9M | Series B | Jul 08, 2021 |  |
| Quantifi Photonics | Coherent Solutions has been enabling engineers and researchers to fully characterize optical pulses. Our skills, experience, and capabilities have grown and so has the market. | $9M | Series B | Jul 08, 2021 |  |
| Quantifi Photonics | Coherent Solutions has been enabling engineers and researchers to fully characterize optical pulses. Our skills, experience, and capabilities have grown and so has the market. | $10.4M | Series B | Jul 08, 2021 |  |
| Get Home Safe | Get Home Safe is a personal and worker safety app that delivers real time assurance and information on health and safety. | $775K | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 07, 2021 |  |
| Core Schedule | Core Schedule develops a cloud-based roster software for the scheduling and management of healthcare staff. Core Schedule provides software that has the ability to forecast costs and staff shortages, provide reports and identify trends, and is tailored to the needs of the organizations along with full training and ongoing support, enablinghealthcare organizations to save time and avoid making mistakes in handling complex rosters. | $785.8K | Seed | Jul 07, 2020 |  |
| Quantifi Photonics | Coherent Solutions has been enabling engineers and researchers to fully characterize optical pulses. Our skills, experience, and capabilities have grown and so has the market. | $3M | Series A | Dec 15, 2017 |  |
| QUBEdocs | QUBEdocs enhances Cognos TM1 and Planning Analytics by adding a new dimension of visibility and information governance. |  |  | Jan 24, 2016 |  |
| RedSeed | RedSeed provides you with a blended learning solution - a proven training system that changes behaviours, because results are everything! |  | Seed | Apr 03, 2015 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amplo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [New Zealand Growth Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-zealand-growth-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2040 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2040-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [New Zealand Venture Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-zealand-venture-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nuance Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuance-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Couchdrop

VC Fund · Christchurch, New Zealand

Couchdrop is your next-generation cloud SFTP and MFT platform. Through acting as your conduit between systems or clients to your cloud storage backend, Couchdrop saves time by automating file workflows and ensuring its scalable infrastructure removes the headache from your engineering team. Couchdrop's detailed enterprise grade auditing andlogging provides more granularity and traceability on your file transfers and file operations.Couchdrop supports the likes of SharePoint, Dropbox, S3, Azure Blob storages which provides you full control and visibility of your data at rest and means Couchdrop does not store or sync data at any stage of the process. Real-time file transfer like it should be.

5 contacts available at Couchdrop.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chantal Lamontagne | Director & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chantal-lamontagne-dd11 |
| Colin Hogg | VP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colin-hogg |
| Lance Wiggs | Director & Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-wiggs |
| Lance Wiggs | Director & Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-wiggs-2 |
| Michael Lawson | Director, CEO & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-lawson-1c1c |

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## FAQ

### What does Lance Wiggs invest in?

Lance Wiggs invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Training startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Lance Wiggs last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lance Wiggs closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 12 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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