# Romain Lapeyre

> Romain Lapeyre is a seed investor in San Francisco backing SaaS and E-Commerce. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romainlapeyre/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/romain_lapeyre
- Website: https://x.com/romain_lapeyre

Romain Lapeyre is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Gorgias.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$2.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 60% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 60% |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Analytics | 1 | 20% |
| Web Design | 1 | 20% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| Canada | 1 | 20% |
| France | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hookdeck | Hookdeck is a fast and reliable event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services – external providers (e.g. Shopify), internal endpoints (e.g. APIs), and any combination thereof.Configure Hookdeck platform resources and features such as event routing,filters, and transformations. And let Hookdeck automatically retry failed events for painless error recovery.Our developer tooling enables teams to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 12, 2022 | https://hookdeck.com |
| Swell | Swell is the most powerful headless ecommerce platform for modern brands, startups, and agencies. | $20M | Series A | Jan 13, 2022 | https://swell.is |
| Hookdeck | Hookdeck is a fast and reliable event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services – external providers (e.g. Shopify), internal endpoints (e.g. APIs), and any combination thereof.Configure Hookdeck platform resources and features such as event routing,filters, and transformations. And let Hookdeck automatically retry failed events for painless error recovery.Our developer tooling enables teams to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence. | $320K | Pre-Seed | Sep 07, 2021 | https://hookdeck.com |
| Polar Analytics | Polar Analytics allows e-commerce merchants to easily combine all of their marketing data from multiple ad platforms, analytics tools, modern CRM, and sales channels to make the right data-driven decisions in seconds. | $1.4M | Seed | May 05, 2021 | https://www.polaranalytics.co/ |
| Shogun | Shogun is an E-commerce platform that helps brands create unique buying experiences and optimize their online stores. It specializes in the fields of eCommerce, Shopify, big commerce, web development, web design, and web content management. Shogun was founded on February 27, 2015, by Nick Raushenbush, Finbarr Taylor, and Damien Kan. | $35M | Series B | Oct 07, 2020 | https://getshogun.com |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [VMG Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vmg-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angels of Many](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-of-many) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arbour & Renaud Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arbour-renaud-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bonfire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonfire-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Romain Lapeyre invest in?

Romain Lapeyre invests primarily in SaaS, E-Commerce and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 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 Romain Lapeyre's check size?

Romain Lapeyre typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$2.7M 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 Romain Lapeyre participates in.

### How do I contact Romain Lapeyre?

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### When did Romain Lapeyre last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Romain Lapeyre closed in Apr 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?

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