# Tobias Lutke

> Tobias Lutke is a Series A investor at Shopify backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 66 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Shopify](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shopify)
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Total investments: 66
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiaslutke
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/tobi
- Website: http://about.me/tobiaslutke
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobias.lutke

Tobias Lutke is a Series A investor at Shopify in Ottawa focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $609k–$15M |
| Series A | $4M–$36M |
| Series B | $30M–$74M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 23% |
| FinTech | 6 | 9% |
| Internet | 6 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 9% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 18 | 27% |
| Seed | 17 | 26% |
| Series B | 11 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 8% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 27 | 41% |
| Canada | 15 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Warp | Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees. | $60M | Series B | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| KOHO Financial | KOHO Financial provides an application based banking platform intended to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day to day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations, enabling users to manage theirexpenses and banking operations on the go. | $93.2M | Series E | Jun 10, 2026 |  |
| Wednesday Waffles | Wednesday Waffles is a relationship wellness company building a weekly video ritual for close friends and family. Every Wednesday, users share private five-minute life updates with the people they care about most, helping them stay meaningfully connected across distance, busy schedules, and major life transitions.Unlike traditional socialplatforms, Wednesday Waffles has no public feed, followers, algorithms, likes, or doom scrolling. The product is designed around consistency and shared disclosure: a simple weekly habit that strengthens real relationships and helps fight the loneliness epidemic.The company’s long-term vision is to build an AI-powered friendship assistant that supports, rather than replaces, human connection by helping people remember what matters, follow up thoughtfully, and turn relationship intent into real-world moments, activities, gifts, trips, and memories |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Synthetic | Synthetic provides an autonomous accounting agent that processes financial data and produces completed monthly books with minimal manual input. Its system handles tasks such as transaction categorization, reconciliation, and financial record generation. The platform is designed to integrate with existing financial tools and maintain structured,auditable outputs. | $10M | Seed | May 14, 2026 |  |
| Wygo | Wygo is a small, privately held platform that enables individuals to create, scale, and participate in local in‑person community events. It provides organizers with tools to list, ticket, and manage recurring or one‑time gatherings, while helping attendees discover and join activities centered on face‑to‑face interaction rather than online content. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Apr 08, 2026 |  |
| Stedi | Stedi is a global network for exchanging B2B transactions in a standard format. It provides companies with a free digital mailbox on the Stedi network, giving any company the ability to quickly connect and transact with its trading partners without having to go through painful point-to-point implementations. | $50M | Series C | Mar 24, 2026 |  |
| Alan | Alan provides online digital insurance services focusing on health and wellness. The company offers health insurance services, providing solutions tailored to the needs of different types of businesses. It provides simple and seamless insurance coverage and easy claim handling. It gives access to medical professionals for users to easily andconveniently get medical advice and manage claims and reimbursements. | $115.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Foxglove | Foxglove is a purpose-built platform that empowers robotics teams to visually debug robots, build reliable autonomy, and scale their development. | $40M | Series B | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Firecrawl | Firecrawl converts websites into clean, AI-ready data through a unified API. It provides functionality to crawl entire websites or scrape individual pages, returning outputs in markdown, structured data (JSON), HTML, screenshots, and more. It handles dynamic content, JavaScript-rendered pages, proxies, rate limits, and caching behind the scenes tosimplify integration for developers. It supports integrations with popular AI frameworks and tools, including LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Zapier, offering flexible usage across different environments. | $14.5M | Series A | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Anything | Create offers a platform that converts plain-language descriptions into fully functional websites, mobile apps, internal tools, and full-stack applications. The platform generates UI components, page structures, integrations, backend logic, and databases from conversational prompts. It supports a wide array of integrations, including AI models likeGPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Stable Diffusion, payments, APIs, and custom REST endpoints, and allows users to preview, iterate, deploy, and export code in one flow. |  | Series A | Aug 14, 2025 |  |

10 of 66 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [OSS Capital L.P.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oss-capital-l-p) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Seven Seven Six](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seven-seven-six) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Shopify

VC Fund · Ottawa, Canada

Shopify is a cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides merchants witha powerful back-office and a single view of their business.Shopify offers online retailers a suite of services including marketing, customer engagement, payments, and shipping tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants. They launched an application programming interface (API) platform and App Store that allows developers to create applications for Shopify online stores and then sell them on the Shopify App Store.The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify currently powers over 800,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Tesla, Red Bull, Nestle, GE, Kylie Cosmetics, and many more.

5 contacts available at Shopify.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bharati Balakrishnan | Country Head & Director, India | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bharati-balakrishnan |
| Bram Sugarman | Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at Shopify | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bram-sugarman |
| Brennan Loh | Director of Marketing Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brennan-loh |
| Brittany Forsyth | SVP of HR | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brittany-forsyth |
| Daniella Bellaire | Head of Global Sales Craft | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniella-bellaire |

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## FAQ

### What does Tobias Lutke invest in?

Tobias Lutke invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 66 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 Tobias Lutke's check size?

Tobias Lutke typically joins rounds of $609k–$15M at Seed, $4M–$36M at Series A and $30M–$74M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tobias Lutke participates in.

### When did Tobias Lutke last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tobias Lutke closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 66 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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