# Sandra Lyness

> Sandra Lyness is a seed investor at Definitive Intelligence (London) backing Software and SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Definitive Intelligence](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karat-35d0)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-lyness-57327222/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sandralyness
- Website: https://x.com/sandralyness
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chung.andrew

Sandra Lyness is a seed investor at Definitive Intelligence in London focused on Software and SaaS. Sandra Lyness - Head Of Operations @ Passion Capital

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$3.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $800k–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 40% |
| SaaS | 3 | 30% |
| B2B | 2 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 20% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Angel | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 60% |
| Denmark | 1 | 10% |
| Portugal | 1 | 10% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock | End-to-end platform for corporate events, intuitively designed for non-event planners | $2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Cosmos Video | Cosmos Video is the virtual venue platform that allows people to work, hang out, and socialize together. | $2.6M | Seed | Dec 11, 2020 |  |
| Purple Dot | Purple Dot creates best-in-class pre-order experiences for e-Commerce. With Purple Dot, brands no longer need to be restricted to only selling stock once it’s in the warehouse. Through powering hyped influencer drops, ‘never go out of stock’ strategies, and derisking supply chain, Purple Dot enables modern eCommerce brands to sell more by sellingearlier. | $1.8M | Seed | Nov 06, 2020 |  |
| Qatalog | Qatalog eliminates your work chaos. No more constant pings, no more trivial meetings, and no more scouring for the latest doc.Our work hub connects the tools of modern collaboration — wikis, project management, team chat, and more — and lets you use them in concert with each other.It connects people and teams in the same way, so they can be insync when they're not in the same place. It’s the new way of work.Qatalog is a Salesforce Ventures company and a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor. | $15M | Series A | Oct 13, 2020 |  |
| Qatalog | Qatalog eliminates your work chaos. No more constant pings, no more trivial meetings, and no more scouring for the latest doc.Our work hub connects the tools of modern collaboration — wikis, project management, team chat, and more — and lets you use them in concert with each other.It connects people and teams in the same way, so they can be insync when they're not in the same place. It’s the new way of work.Qatalog is a Salesforce Ventures company and a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 01, 2019 |  |
| Doppio Games | Doppio is a conversational game studio, creating the next big step in entertainment: voice and narrative-driven games. Check out our titles, The Vortex and The 3% Challenge, on your Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 23, 2019 |  |
| SupplyCompass | SupplyCompass is a product development and production management platform that enables fashion brands and manufacturers to produce better, together. Our cloud-based software is transforming the fashion industry by digitalising global supply chains and making sustainable sourcing easy and cost-effective for brands and every player in the supplychain. Our platform enables brands to manage the entire product development, sourcing and production process from design right through to delivery, all in one place. | $1.9M | Seed | Jul 12, 2019 |  |
| Uizard | Uizard is an online collaborative design tool for non-designers. Our main customers are startup founders, managers in enterprises, consultants, engineering teams that need a solution to easily and quickly design and test product ideas such as mobile apps, websites, and desktop software. Our unique AI-powered design assistant helps customers turnideas into reality effortlessly. | $800K | Pre-Seed | May 21, 2018 |  |
| Genus AI | Genus AI is an AI-native commerce platform that helps D2C and e-commerce brands turn product catalogs into high-performing growth engines. The platform combines catalog intelligence, feed optimization, generative product imagery and video, ad copy, seed audiences, and SKU-level performance insights to help brands improve digital advertisingperformance across channels such as Meta, TikTok, Google, and emerging AI commerce platforms.By connecting product data, creative generation, audience intelligence, and campaign performance in one system, Genus AI enables brands to automate and optimize how every product is presented, advertised, and scaled. The company works with leading e-commerce brands to improve catalog ads, creative workflows, product feeds, and customer acquisition efficiency. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 24, 2017 |  |
| Countingup | The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK's #1 #banking & #accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting. "So easy to use. I really don't know how I ever completed business tasks without it." J O'Kane "Simple and easy, everything a high street bank isn’t." I’ll Cook You Pour "Thefuture of accounting and banking…" C Ready | $637K | Angel | Oct 23, 2017 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mosaic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mosaic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Prototype Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/remote-first-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiny VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-super-computer-investment-company) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AI Seed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amazon Alexa Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon-alexa-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Definitive Intelligence

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Making AEC software talk to each other in real-time.

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| --- | --- | --- |
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| Anant Jhingran | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anant-jhingran |
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## FAQ

### What does Sandra Lyness invest in?

Sandra Lyness invests primarily in Software, SaaS and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sandra Lyness's check size?

Sandra Lyness typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$3.5M at Seed and $800k–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sandra Lyness participates in.

### When did Sandra Lyness last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sandra Lyness closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 10 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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