# Lead Dog Ventures

> Lead Dog Ventures is a VC fund in Wayland backing PaaS, SaaS and Security. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wayland, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2012
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/leaddog99
- Website: http://www.leaddog.com

Lead Dog Ventures is a VC fund in Wayland focused on PaaS and SaaS. Lead Dog Ventures was founded by software industry veteran John Landry to provide today's early-stage technology companies the intellectual, relationship and financial capital to become tomorrow's "Lead Dogs". After 25 years of building great software products and great software companies, Landry has had a distinguishedtrack record as an innovative "Serial CTO", successfully creating and executing a business-aware technology vision at several major software companies. His CTO career has evolved from developing batch mainframe application systems, to AI-based expert systems, to large-scale database systems and development tools, to PC applications, to client-server email and groupware systems, to interactive Internet systems, to creating IBM’s cross-corporation Internet strategy and most recently mobile and distributed systems. In all cases, Landry's innovations and technology strategy have resulted in achieving maximum value for investors and employees alike – all of these companies (excluding IBM) were successfully acquired near the peak of their value. This strategy has allowed Landry to capitalize on past work and then begin development on the "next big thing", a cycle he has repeated again and again -- seven times in the last 20 years!Aiming to make this experience available to others while still staying involved in the very latest technologies, Landry manages Lead Dog Ventures. Lead Dog is a new-age technology business accelerator, drawing upon Landry’s relevant technology business experience, a rich network of trusted and diverse professional relationships, as well as his access to sources of early stage investment capital. Landry also serves on the Board of Directors of several of Lead Dog's private company investments.Landry balances this emerging company focus with frequent consulting and speaking engagements with the thought leaders of the "big dogs" -- IBM, McKinsey, Arthur Andersen, top-tier Venture Capital firms and several Fortune 500 clients. By bridging these two worlds for nearly 25 years, Landry and Lead Dog Ventures provide both large and small companies alike unique access to knowledge, relationships and capital investment opportunities -- a combination designed to produce tomorrow's "Lead Dogs".

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PaaS | 1 | 100% |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Security | 1 | 100% |
| Document Management | 1 | 100% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| docTrackr | Each time you share a digital document, the minute you've sent it, you are no longer in control.docTrackr helps businesses keep their documents under control, wherever they're stored, whomever they're shared with - i.e. you can remotely destroy them, update them and know what people are doing with them in real-time.doctrackr's technology was designed to protect the most sensitive documents in business. docTrackr provides advanced document intelligence and control, giving enterprises complete visibility into document usage. With docTrackr, managers can control permissions, track usage, and even destroy documents remotely. All through all through an easy to use dashboard.They are complementary to document management platforms such as Dropbox, Box.net or Google Drive. docTrackr continues to provide a benefit to their users even once the documents are extracted from their platform and redistributed.docTrackr was part of TechStars – #1 startup accelerator in the world – and is based in the USA (Boston – MA) and in Europe (Paris – France; Bucharest – Romania), and backed by Polaris Ventures and Atlas Ventures.It was acquired by Intralinks.com for $10 million dollars cash. |  | Seed | Oct 02, 2012 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alive Ideas](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alive-ideas) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atlas Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlas-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CVP Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonangels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MassChallenge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masschallenge) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Polaris Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polaris-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Lead Dog Ventures invest in?

Lead Dog Ventures invests primarily in PaaS, SaaS and Security startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Lead Dog Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lead Dog Ventures closed in Oct 2012. Shizune tracks 1 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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