# Lanham Napier

> Lanham Napier is a Series A investor at BuildGroup (Austin) backing Software and Machine Learning. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [BuildGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/build-group)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lanhamnapier/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lnapier
- Website: https://x.com/lnapier

Lanham Napier is a Series A investor at BuildGroup in Austin focused on Software and Machine Learning. Lanham Napier is Co-CEO at Build Acquisition Corp.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4M–$36M |
| Private Equity | $4M–$175M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 54% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 23% |
| Big Data | 2 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 15% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 23% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Private Equity | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amelia | Amelia is the enterprise's Trusted AI leader. Amelia has a proven track record of innovation in automation and Conversational AI as a pioneer in AI. Amelia's platform captures the rapid innovation of AI ecosystems and transforms them into enterprise-grade products that are ready for customer consumption. Amelia is used by businesses toincrease revenue through conversational experiences and increase productivity through operations automation. | $175M | Private Equity | Mar 07, 2023 |  |
| Squirro | Squirro is a software company that utilizes Augmented Intelligence to enhance decision intelligence. | $4M | Private Equity | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| Squirro | Squirro is a software company that utilizes Augmented Intelligence to enhance decision intelligence. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 24, 2022 |  |
| Colossus | Dvinci® is a customer-centric clean technology company that is accelerating the clean energy movement. We are doing so by enabling a new era of on-demand, clean energy entrepreneurs. | $36M | Series A | Jan 18, 2022 |  |
| dcSpark | DcSpark is a product-based blockchain company that builds products and solutions for crypto projects in the space.The company builds critical infrastructure to support layer 1 Blockchains and their smart contract layers, enabling clients to adopt and implement decentralized technology within their ecosystem.It was founded in 2021 in Austin,Texas by Nicolás Arqueros, Sebastien Guillemot, and Robert Kornacki. |  | Seed | Jun 04, 2021 |  |
| DigniFi | DigniFi is a software company that offers the highest quality financial solutions for automotive service centers and their customers. The company also provides a fintech marketplace that connects consumers with lenders to help finance large repair costs. It connects consumers with lenders for car repairs, tires, accessories, and other auto-relatedneeds.DigniFi's platform partners with auto service centers to offer access to financial products for car repairs, tires, accessories, and other automotive needs. The company plans to deploy the funding to automate loan applications, invest in machine-learning automation, and increase its network. DigniFI was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA, United States. | $14M | Series A | Jun 30, 2020 |  |
| Benefitfocus | Benefitfocus is a leading provider of benefits technology. More than 20 million consumers manage all types of benefits in the Benefitfocus cloud. By delivering technology that integrates all benefits in one place, Benefitfocus provides a better way to engage consumers, educate employees and simplify benefit enrollment and management. | $80M | Post-IPO Equity | May 26, 2020 |  |
| Fiix Software | Fiix was started in Toronto by a few ‘fiixers’ that wanted to bring simplicity to the unnecessarily complicated world of maintenance management software. And they wanted to do it with a product that was easy to use and affordable for everyone. Today they’ve grown, but they never forget that they were once the little guys and stay true to theirfounders’ vision of providing easy-to-use, affordable maintenance management software to the world. They’re the long awaited market disrupters, the true cloud provider, the lightning in a bottle. |  | Series C | Jan 29, 2019 |  |
| Fiix Software | Fiix was started in Toronto by a few ‘fiixers’ that wanted to bring simplicity to the unnecessarily complicated world of maintenance management software. And they wanted to do it with a product that was easy to use and affordable for everyone. Today they’ve grown, but they never forget that they were once the little guys and stay true to theirfounders’ vision of providing easy-to-use, affordable maintenance management software to the world. They’re the long awaited market disrupters, the true cloud provider, the lightning in a bottle. | $12M | Series B | May 21, 2018 |  |
| Anaconda | Anaconda helps organizations simplify, safeguard, and accelerate AI with open source at scale. The Anaconda Platform bridges the gap between experimentation and production, giving teams the speed they need to innovate alongside the security and governance enterprises require. Over 50 million users and 95% of the Fortune 500 trust Anaconda for datascience and AI development. With 21+ billion downloads across a decade of growth, Anaconda operates across hybrid AI environments and cloud platforms including AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake. Learn more at anaconda.com. | $10M | Series A | Jul 13, 2017 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [cFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capital Creek Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-creek-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CEAS Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceas-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [dlab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dlabvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Double Peak Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-peak-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About BuildGroup

VC Fund · Austin, United States

BuildGroup is a software holding company that selectively invests in leadership teams with staying power. We back founders who are ambitious enough to want to make a dent in the universe and humble enough to realize they can’t do it alone.By providing permanent capital from aligned investors and avoiding forced exits, BuildGroup freesentrepreneurs to focus on serving customers instead of raising the next round. We believe that great businesses are built, not bought, and that’s why our team works side-by-side with founders to create conditions for long-term growth. BuildGroup was founded in Austin, Texas by a team of proven builders who love nothing more than helping build and grow extraordinary companies.

4 contacts available at BuildGroup.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lanham Napier | CEO & Builder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lanham-napier |
| Jim Curry | Builder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-curry |
| Klee Kleber | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/klee-kleber |
| Peter Freeland | Builder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-freeland |

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## FAQ

### What does Lanham Napier invest in?

Lanham Napier invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed 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.

### What is Lanham Napier's check size?

Lanham Napier typically joins rounds of $4M–$36M at Series A and $4M–$175M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lanham Napier participates in.

### When did Lanham Napier last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lanham Napier closed in Mar 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.

### 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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