# Lars Leckie

> Lars Leckie is a Series A investor at Aspenwood Ventures backing Software and SaaS. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aspenwood Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspenwood-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 49%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsleckie
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/larsleckie
- Website: https://x.com/larsleckie

Lars Leckie is a Series A investor at Aspenwood Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Lars Leckie is the Managing Director of Aspenwood Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 20% |
| SaaS | 4 | 11% |
| Mobile | 3 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 9% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 34% |
| Series B | 8 | 23% |
| Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Series C | 2 | 6% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 34% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ethyca | Ethyca is an infrastructure platform that provides developers and product teams with the ability to ensure consumer data privacy throughout applications and services design. It also provides your product, engineering and privacy teams with unmatched ease of use and functionality to better care about your user's data. The company helpscompanies discover sensitive data, then provides a mechanism for customers to delete, see or edit their data from the system. Ethyca's mission is to increase trust in data-driven business by building automated data privacy infrastructure. | $10M | Series A | Dec 05, 2024 |  |
| Defectdojo | DefectDojo is the engine that powers DevSecOps, offering an open, scalable platform that connects security strategy to implementation. | $7M | Series A | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| ScreenMeet | ScreenMeet, Enterprise Remote Support in the cloud. The cloud-native remote support solution that is fully integrated with your existing CRM/CSM/ITSM system (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics and Zendesk). From a ticket, case or incident see, takeover and fix any PC, MAC or mobile device. All data gets written back to your CRMfor auditing, analytics and reporting. | $6.4M | Series B | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Amberdata | Amberdata is defining the Cryptoeconomics data provider category. By combining validated blockchain and crypto market data from the leading crypto exchanges into a unified platform and API, Amberdata enables customers to build data-powered applications to develop and maintain an edge over their competition.The company was founded in 2017 in Paloalto, California led by Shawn Douglass. | $15M | Series A | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| Smart Access | Smart Access provides an information technology solution for the workforce. Smart Access mobile performance support platform helps retailers train and re-skill workers faster, using technology that’s location-aware. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. | $1.1M | Convertible Note | Dec 12, 2019 |  |
| Atria Systems | Aria helps enterprises grow recurring revenue businesses with an agile billing system. The company helps clients to take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetizationplatform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. | $30M | Private Equity | Dec 11, 2018 |  |
| TidalScale | TidalScale has developed a scale-up compute and resource architecture. It specializes in the fields of analytics, cloud infrastructure, information technology, software and data mining. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Campbell, California. | $27M | Series B | Oct 09, 2018 |  |
| Amberdata | Amberdata is defining the Cryptoeconomics data provider category. By combining validated blockchain and crypto market data from the leading crypto exchanges into a unified platform and API, Amberdata enables customers to build data-powered applications to develop and maintain an edge over their competition.The company was founded in 2017 in Paloalto, California led by Shawn Douglass. | $2M | Seed | Oct 19, 2017 |  |
| Atria Systems | Aria helps enterprises grow recurring revenue businesses with an agile billing system. The company helps clients to take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetizationplatform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. | $18M | Series F | Sep 12, 2017 |  |
| InsideSales | XANT provides solutions that accelerate revenue by enabling (sales) teams to build a better pipeline and close more deals. their core differentiation stems from real data that like modern AI apps such as WAZE, NetFlix and Amazon use data through a collective that drives insights, scores, and predictions across email, voice, Linked In SMSinteractions. Hundreds of customers across the globe including companies such as American Express, Cisco, John Hancock, and Pluralsight, trust XANT to drive productivity, visibility, and effectiveness in their prospects and customer interactions.XANT.ai Revenue Acceleration Cloud uses AI-powered by Real Data behavioral insights captured in real-time between every buyer and seller on the platform to guide teams to focus on the right things, optimize engagement and improve visibility. | $50M | Series D | Jan 18, 2017 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [U.S. Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/us-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Venrock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venrock) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [InterWest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interwest-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [True Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/true-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Divergent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/divergent-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Aspenwood Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Aspenwood Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies.

4 contacts available at Aspenwood Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alicia Urizar | Executive Assistant/Office Manager (Formerly known as Hummer Winblad Venture Partners) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicia-urizar |
| Lars Leckie | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lars-leckie |
| Maria Mulcahy | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-mulcahy-5144 |
| Steve Kishi | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-kishi |

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## FAQ

### What does Lars Leckie invest in?

Lars Leckie invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 35 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 Lars Leckie last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lars Leckie closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 35 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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