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How I Landed at One of Canada’s Fastest Growing Startups
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Ian Logan
Venture Partner at Maple VC
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Ian Logan is a seasoned investor and advisor, with a background as a former engineering leader at Airbnb. He has made significant contributions to the tech industry, investing in companies like Peggy at the pre-seed stage and collaborating with various organizations as a venture partner and advisor. Ian's expertise spans a range of sectors including security, real estate, developer tools, and analytics, and he has a strong educational foundation with a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
Work Experience
Investor
2020 - Current
I invest across asset classes leading my family office. Perpetually learning as a capital allocator & crossover (public + private) investor. Self-managing my core-satellite portfolio of diversified return drivers.
Operator Angel
2017
Investor in Drata, Honeycomb, Mage, Peggy, Pillar, SpaceX, Stonks, and more. Dedicated to helping early-stage companies. I invest personally and with my syndicate. DMs open. Some of my investment theses: 1. Democratization of investment asset classes, 2. Team ripple effects of procuring category-leading products, 3. Moonshot ideas that make life enjoyable for future generations. My honorable anti-portfolio: Coinbase, Stripe.
Advisor
2024
GoBolt is building the world’s largest sustainable supply chain network.
Advisor
2022
Zip is the world's leading intake-to-procure solution: one place for employees to initiate a purchase or vendor request.
Zip is an intake and procurement orchestration platform that enables users to initiate purchase requests across the enterprise.
Raised $371,325,000.00 from DST Global, Adams Street Partners, Bond, Alkeon Capital, CRV and Y Combinator.
Venture Partner
2022
Supporting extraordinary founders building market-shifting software tools.
Angel Track
2022
First Round's Angel Track is a masterclass and community for angel investors. One of 35 people selected from 2,000+ applications for the S22 cohort. Learn more at https://angeltrack.firstround.com
First Round Angel Track is a community of operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors.
Venture Partner
2022
Creating opportunities for European technology startups to access talent, partners, customers, and capital from Southeast Asia.
Venture Partner
2021
Maple backs founders with Canadian roots because they build category defining companies.
Advisor
2021
Voiceflow is democratizing conversational AI by making conversational assistant creation easy, collaborative, and accessible to everyone.
The collaborative platform to build conversational AI.
Raised $39,000,000.00 from Craft Ventures, Amazon, Ripple Ventures, OpenView, Google, Felicis, True Ventures, Operator Collective and Cathy Pearl.
Advisor
2021
CoinTracker enables seamless cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance.
CoinTracker is the gold standard in cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance.
Raised $101,620,000.00 from Accel, Gokul Rajaram, Y Combinator, Nick Raushenbush, Claire Hughes Johnson, Kraken Ventures, Intuit, Seven Seven Six, Jeremy Liew and Coinbase Ventures.