# Simon Lancaster

> Simon Lancaster is a pre-seed investor at Omni Ventures backing Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Omni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omniventures)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonlancaster/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/simonlancaster
- Website: http://www.orionvl.com

Simon Lancaster is a pre-seed investor at Omni Ventures in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and SaaS. Ex-Apple, ex-Google, ex-BlackBerry product hardware veteran turned parallel-entrepreneur. Currently President and Founder at Omni Venture Labs. #hardware #deeptech #industry4.0 #frontiertech. Prolific inventor with over 50 patents, experienced product and innovation architect. Lover of advanced composites. I am driven to make impossible productspossible, functional and elegant. follow me on LinkedIn for your daily dose of design, manufacturing and engineering innovation.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Hardware | 1 | 14% |
| Wireless | 1 | 14% |
| Analytics | 1 | 14% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Uptool | Uptool integrates with existing factory systems to improve production efficiency, equipment utilization, and workflow coordination. It provides manufacturers with insights to predict maintenance needs, enhance quality control, and streamline resource management. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Dystr | AI powered engineering console designed to help technical teams automate tasks, run analysis with visualizations, & perform complex calculations 10x faster. Dystr is bringing the power of cloud compute to technical teams working outside of pure software engineering. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Boon | Boon is a talent crowdsourcing marketplace that offers a game-changing referral engagement network. By combining social and psychological engagement components with data science, Boon's referral recruiting engine helps companies hire the best talent in their organization's networks and boosts referred talent by 63%. Powerful matchingalgorithms do the heavy lifting of identifying candidates and engaging the right employees, custom rewards and gamification inspire action, and deep integrations and stats dashboards provide clarity and integrity to a referral program - rendering referral recruiting the most cost-effective recruiting strategy for any company. |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Boon | Boon is a talent crowdsourcing marketplace that offers a game-changing referral engagement network. By combining social and psychological engagement components with data science, Boon's referral recruiting engine helps companies hire the best talent in their organization's networks and boosts referred talent by 63%. Powerful matchingalgorithms do the heavy lifting of identifying candidates and engaging the right employees, custom rewards and gamification inspire action, and deep integrations and stats dashboards provide clarity and integrity to a referral program - rendering referral recruiting the most cost-effective recruiting strategy for any company. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2021 |  |
| Miravel | Miravel designs automated indoor wall gardens that beautifully grow fresh greens and herbs in any home environment. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| APHRODITE | APHRODITE builds business intelligence software that lets decision-makers understand revenue in real-time.They focus on analytics, data visualization, finance, E-commerce, marketing, advertising, dashboard, and business intelligence. | $175K | Angel | Jul 17, 2019 |  |
| Mimiq | Mimiq enables consumers to get instant security on-the-go by leveraging portable hardware and advanced software for microinsurance offerings and on-demand security response services. | $550K | Seed | Dec 10, 2018 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## About Omni Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Omni Ventures is a first-check venture firm investing in the digitization of Manufacturing Tech, a $3.8 trillion opportunity over the next decade. While industries like Financial Services and Business Services have tripled their GDP contributions through software, manufacturing has lagged behind, despite generating $700 billion in annual profit andaccounting for over 10 percent of GDP. We believe AI will finally unlock this sector by turning decades of trapped data from sensors, machine logs, and process metrics into real-time insights, predictive maintenance, and automation. You can read more in our memo, The Venture Case for Manufacturing Tech.

3 contacts available at Omni Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sabrina Paseman | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sabrina-paseman |
| Simon Lancaster | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-lancaster |
| Sushant Sharma | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sushant-sharma-bb15 |

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## FAQ

### What does Simon Lancaster invest in?

Simon Lancaster invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Hardware startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Simon Lancaster last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Simon Lancaster closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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