# Lago Innovation Fund

> Lago Innovation Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.lagoinnovation.com/

Lago Innovation Fund is a VC fund focused on Software and Information Technology. LEGO Innovation Investment Fund is an investment firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$5M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $8M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 23% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |
| Mobile Apps | 3 | 14% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 14% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 5 | 23% |
| Seed | 4 | 18% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 9% |
| Series B | 2 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 64% |
| Brazil | 1 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Mexico | 1 | 5% |
| Finland | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Heather La Freniere | Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heather-la-freniere-cde9 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guidehealth | Guidehealth offers healthcare solutions focusing on patient care, provider support, and technology integration. |  | Debt Financing | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Stake | Stake offers a platform for investing in US stocks and ETFs. The company provides account management, a Visa debit card, and cash back features. Banking services are provided by TransPecos Banks, SSB, and accounts may have pass-through deposit insurance if requirements are met. Users can track investments and manage funds through the Stakeplatform. | $8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| SynergySuite | SynergySuite is an international provider of award winning, cloud based enterprise back office software to leading global restaurant chains. SynergySuite offers a modular solution covering all critical business areas including inventory & procurement, recipe management, food safety, scheduling, cash management, human resources, and businessintelligence. After using SynergySuite our customers add between 4% to 6% per location to their bottom line. SynergySuite has been in the industry since 2011 and works with top restaurant chains like KFC, Macaroni Grill, BrewDog, Hawthorne Leisure and many more across the US, UK, and Ireland. |  | Debt Financing | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| Everywhere Communications | Everywhere Communications provides dual-mode cellular and satellite communications powered by patented technology. It delivers safety, security, and increased productivity to enterprise and government customers, and deliver always-connected communications, even in the 90% of the world that lacks cellular coverage. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in Annapolis, Maryland. |  | Debt Financing | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Fortem Technologies | Fortem Technologies is an innovative leader in AI-enabled airspace security and safety. The company provides real-time intrusion detection and detect-and-avoid solutions. Fortem delivers a military-tested, commercially available solution that alerts, identifies and classifies drones and other unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs).A Silicon Valleyventure funded company that delivers innovative technologies to enable safe autonomous airborne operations, Fortem Technologies’ proven solutions allow organizations to transition their unmanned aircraft operations beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). The company is privately held and backed by multiple investors. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| Happy Head | Happy Head is a custom-formulated telemedicine brand for customized hair medicine and treatments. It specializes in customized formulas to prevent and reverse hair loss for both women and men. Its core product is a prescription-grade, personalized topical solution that can easily be applied to the scalp and is shipped discreetly to your door. |  | Debt Financing | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| ExoTerra | ExoTerra was founded in 2011 with a vision of reducing the cost of space exploration. They pursue this goal by developing affordable technologies that minimize spacecraft mass and volume while enhancing their performance and offering unique capabilities.Since their founding, they have grown to 16 engineers with skills in structural, mechanical,and systems design and analysis, thermal protection and analysis, and electrical engineering. They offer engineering and consulting services in these disciplines, and design and build high-capability power and propulsion components, subsystems, and fully-integrated buses for CubeSats and small satellites. | $8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Home Alliance | Home Alliance is a trusted place for home services with scalable supply/demand acquisition and data driven operations. As an on-demand resource for homeowners, Home Alliance provides guarantees for all repair services. With Home Alliance, customers can book an appointment with a professional technician both virtually or at-home. With theeasy $99 per year membership plan, Home Alliance customers are protected all year round with priority booking, waived service call fees and special discounts to the most popular requests. Our mission is to make up a community of expert contractors and homeowners that understand the value of good service and expert craftsmanship.Welcome to the future of the working home. Customers focused. Technicians powered. | $5M | Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Fernway | Fernway is a cannabis vaporizer brand that aims to empower people to enjoy cannabis with confidence and ease.The cannabis company makes cannabis vapes. It partners with expert cultivators to source premium cannabis oil. Then, they refine the oil, distill it, and use it to fill premium vaporizer hardware. Consumers can buy the cannabis vapes atdispensaries.It was founded by David Van Vlierbergen, Liam O'Brien, and Christopher (Kit) Gallan in Northampton, Massachusetts in 2018. | $6M | Convertible Note | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Attend | Attend is a mobile application that enables fans to buy, group, split, and share season tickets to live sporting events. Attend was founded by three sports fans with deep ties in tech, entertainment, sports, and ticketing. Attend is on a mission to disrupt the stagnant ticketing industry, increasing team, and league revenue while making the fanexperience easier and more realistic for today’s consumer. |  | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LAGO Innovation Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lago-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [11 Tribes Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/11-tribes-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Analysis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-analysis) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Highgate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/highgate-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Lago Innovation Fund invest in?

Lago Innovation Fund invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Debt Financing and Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 Lago Innovation Fund's check size?

Lago Innovation Fund typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$5M at Seed and $8M–$12M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lago Innovation Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Lago Innovation Fund?

Public channels for Lago Innovation Fund include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Lago Innovation Fund?

The team at Lago Innovation Fund includes Heather La Freniere (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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