Lars Rasmussen
Angel Investor @ Defiance Capital
Brooklyn, United States
Lars Rasmussen is a seed investor at Defiance Capital in Brooklyn focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries Lars Rasmussen invests in
Stages Lars Rasmussen invests in
Countries Lars Rasmussen invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $326k–$6.6M
- Angel
- $250k–$497k
- Pre-Seed
- $1.4M–$3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (14%)
- Apps 2 (7%)
- Video 2 (7%)
- Hardware 2 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (52%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (24%)
- Angel 2 (7%)
- Series A 1 (3%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 10 (34%)
- Australia 4 (14%)
- United Kingdom 3 (10%)
- Greece 2 (7%)
- The Netherlands 2 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraton is a biochar platform that provides equipment, design, and financing to agribusiness operators. | $11.5M / Seed / Aug 27, 2025 | ||
| Protio is proptech startup reinventing the process of buying & selling real estate. | $1.1M / Seed / May 16, 2025 | ||
| Robyn provides an AI-powered marketing mix modeling platform that helps brands optimize media spend and measure performance. | $5.5M / Seed / Apr 08, 2025 | ||
| The AI Receptionist for Insurance | Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2024 | ||
| The programmable spreadsheet. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 27, 2023 | ||
| Marlee is a collaboration and performance AI that helps individuals and teams bring out the best in each other. Providing personalized insights in just minutes, making connecting, motivating, collaborating, and developing easy, right in the flow of work.Marlee is built on 25 years of global human data and evidence-based psychologies, and it isnow the world's largest global database of human motivations.In 2020, we launched the world's first AI Coach Marlee, to help everyone to develop and achieve their goals. With a 4.4 star customer rating, Marlee coaches to 1,000 different types of goals to support work, career, leadership, financial, well-being and relationships. 90% of people achieve their goals within just four weeks! | $4.4M / Seed / Feb 01, 2023 | ||
| Marlee is a collaboration and performance AI that helps individuals and teams bring out the best in each other. Providing personalized insights in just minutes, making connecting, motivating, collaborating, and developing easy, right in the flow of work.Marlee is built on 25 years of global human data and evidence-based psychologies, and it isnow the world's largest global database of human motivations.In 2020, we launched the world's first AI Coach Marlee, to help everyone to develop and achieve their goals. With a 4.4 star customer rating, Marlee coaches to 1,000 different types of goals to support work, career, leadership, financial, well-being and relationships. 90% of people achieve their goals within just four weeks! | $3.5M / Series A / Jan 31, 2023 | ||
| Listen Labs is a platform that uses AI to conduct interviews and analyze qualitative data to help companies understand their customers. | Pre-Seed / Jan 16, 2023 | ||
| OneRoof connects people living in the same building to form a resourceful, fun, and supportive neighbor community. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. | $3.2M / Seed / Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Protio is proptech startup reinventing the process of buying & selling real estate. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| See all 29 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Defiance Capital
Defiance Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by Christian Dorffer and Nolan Gray. Defiance Capital invests in Enterprise AI, with a focus on the middleware and B2B application layers, the firm prioritises verticals where AI has immediate and transformative impact, namely defense and cybersecurity, food security, energy, finance,and data infrastructure.
Defiance Capital Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Nolan Gray
Founder & General Partner
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What does Lars Rasmussen invest in?
Lars Rasmussen invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Lars Rasmussen invest in?
Lars Rasmussen typically joins rounds of $326k–$6.6M at Seed, $250k–$497k at Angel and $1.4M–$3M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Lars Rasmussen's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Lars Rasmussen took part in.
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When did Lars Rasmussen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Lars Rasmussen closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 29 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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