Laura Lenz

Partner

2019 - Current

OMERS Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada’s largest pension funds with more than $97 billion in net assets as at December 31, 2018. OMERS Ventures provides patient, strategic capital to accelerate growth and scale – operating with a long-term vision of value creation. OMERS Ventures has offices in Toronto, Palo Alto, and London, providing a bi-coastal and international foothold for the firm to identify promising investment opportunities in emerging and leading markets. www.omersventures.com

Investor and Board Member

2023

Investor and Board Member

2020

Solink's platform syncs business transaction data with video footage, creating a dashboard of clips for all on-site activity. These ‘events’, paired seamlessly with video for context, give Solink users the ability to evaluate the situation instantly. It’s this machine learning technology that gives Solink users the edge they need in the ever-changing and evolving brick-and-mortar industry.

Investor and Board Member

2024

Investor and Board Member

2021

Investor and Board Member

2020

Partner

2016 - 2019

Generation Ventures, a division of Generation Capital, manages both direct and in-direct venture capital investments, predominantly into early and growth-stage technology companies. Investing for the long term, Generation Ventures focuses on deep technology opportunities to drive step functions gains in enterprise productivity. Guided by an evergreen endowment investment model, and benefiting from a large balance sheet of patient investment capital, Generation Ventures invests with the long view – seeking out the best and brightest minds, solving difficult problems through innovating, breakthrough technologies. - Invested in Evrythng Series B in 2017, exited to Digimarc - Led Nudge Rewards Series A in 2017, exited to Axonify - Invested in KeyFactor Series B in 2016, exited to Insight Partners (Unicorn Status)

Investment Director

2011 - 2014

- Invested in Wysdom.ai Seed financing, 2013, exited to Calabrio - Invested in SurfEasy Seed financing, 2011, exited to Symantec

Principal

2004 - 2010

- Invested in Rypple's Series A financing in 2008, exited to Salesforce - Led RapidMind's Series A financing in 2007, exited to Intel - Led Varicent's Series A financing in 2006, exited to IBM, spin-out, funding by Warburg Pincus, Unicorn Status

Associate

1998 - 2003

M&A team member advising on the creation of Bell Globemedia valued at $2.3B in 2001 Team member working on the IPO of 724 Solutions in 2000