# Lisa Shields

> Lisa Shields is a seed investor at FISPAN (Vancouver) backing Software and Information Technology. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FISPAN](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fi-span-services-inc)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisawashere/

Lisa Shields is a seed investor at FISPAN in Vancouver focused on Software and Information Technology. Lisa Shields is the founder and chief executive officer of FISPAN. He previously worked at Hyperwallet as a founder and director. Lisa Shields attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $448k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| Energy | 1 | 20% |
| Mobile | 1 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 4 | 80% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neutronpay | Neutronpay offers a platform for payments and transactions with seamless integration to accept bitcoin lightning payments risk-free. | $2.3M | Seed | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| A&K Robotics | A&K Robotics was founded on a shared belief that robotic technologies has the potential to drastically improve Their world and quality of life. They see the future with unique eyes, pushing the boundaries of robotics and seeking real-life applications of new technologies. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2020 |  |
| MergeBase | MergeBase develops cyber defenses for vulnerable 3rd-party and open source components and libraries. MergeBase focuses on providing clients with robust security against the number one source of data breaches today: vulnerabilities in software components. Feel free to compete digitally by utilizing open source and commercial libraries. MergeBaseallows you to build securely on external software components. | $448.3K | Seed | Mar 19, 2020 |  |
| Validere | Validere is a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company that helps energy organizations transform disconnected, incomplete emissions data into clear and immediately actionable pathways to financial and environmental value. Modernize your carbon tracking and reporting with an emissions management platform built by industry experts. | $1M | Seed | Apr 11, 2016 |  |
| Commerce Signals | Commerce Signal unlock merchant acquirer payment data for use in media measurement.To develop a new data-sharing model, Tom Noyes (the Founder), partnered with Russ Schrader, the former Chief Privacy Officer of Visa and a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy Committee. Together they designed a model, Federated Data, thatenables insight sharing between businesses without losing control of the data or sacrificing consumer privacy.Commerce Signals was founded in 2014 to bring better, unique payment data sets to the market at speed and in a privacy-centric manner. | $4M | Series A | Oct 26, 2015 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [WUTIF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wutif) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fulgur Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fulgur-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hivemind Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hivemind-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Iterative Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iterative-instinct) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OPENAIR Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openair-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Republic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/republic-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About FISPAN

VC Fund · Vancouver, Canada

FISPAN is the market leader in ERP-banking. Our turn-key platform makes it simple for banks to offer commercial banking services embedded in any business application. FISPAN powers best-in-class commercial banking experiences by removing friction and adding value to how the bank’s clients operate their business.

5 contacts available at FISPAN.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lisa Shields | founder and chief executive officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lisa-shields-b2d8 |
| Andrea Zand | Co-Founder & Operations Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-zand |
| Bill Crowley | Chief Product Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-crowley |
| Clayton Weir | Co-Founder, Product & Strategy | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clayton-weir |
| Valery Novikov | Co-founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valery-novikov |

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## FAQ

### What does Lisa Shields invest in?

Lisa Shields invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lisa Shields's check size?

Lisa Shields typically joins rounds of $448k–$2.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lisa Shields participates in.

### When did Lisa Shields last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lisa Shields closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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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