Justin LaFayette

Lead Investor and Co-Founder at Georgian

📍 Canada🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2014
Operator-angel🌍 Canada
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2014
Canada Learning Code is a national not-for-profit organization championing digital literacy education, working nation-wide and across all sectors to equip Canadians with technical skills. To date, the organization has taught over 80,000 learners through their programs, which are offered in over 30 cities across the country. Founded as Ladies Learning Code in 2011, the organization has evolved to run programming for adults, youth and educators through programs Ladies, Girls, Kids, Teens and Teachers Learning Code. Canada Learning Code’s goal is to create 10 million technology learning experiences for Canadians over the next ten years. Technical skills are a tool of empowerment, and it is the organization’s mission to ensure that all Canadians - particularly those who are currently underrepresented in the tech sector - have access to learn these critical skills and be active participants in the digital age.
mid stagePhilanthropy
Lead Investor and Co-Founder
2008
Georgian invests in high-growth B2B software companies and builds software to help those companies scale faster. We seek to identify and accelerate leading growth-stage software companies in our thesis areas of Applied AI and Trust. Based in Toronto and founded in 2008, Georgian’s team brings together investors with machine learning professionals, software entrepreneurs and experienced operators.
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2014
Board Member
2014
Canada Learning Code is a national not-for-profit organization championing digital literacy education, working nation-wide and across all sectors to equip Canadians with technical skills. To date, the organization has taught over 80,000 learners through their programs, which are offered in over 30 cities across the country. Founded as Ladies Learning Code in 2011, the organization has evolved to run programming for adults, youth and educators through programs Ladies, Girls, Kids, Teens and Teachers Learning Code. Canada Learning Code’s goal is to create 10 million technology learning experiences for Canadians over the next ten years. Technical skills are a tool of empowerment, and it is the organization’s mission to ensure that all Canadians - particularly those who are currently underrepresented in the tech sector - have access to learn these critical skills and be active participants in the digital age.
mid stagePhilanthropy
2008
Lead Investor and Co-Founder
2008
Georgian invests in high-growth B2B software companies and builds software to help those companies scale faster. We seek to identify and accelerate leading growth-stage software companies in our thesis areas of Applied AI and Trust. Based in Toronto and founded in 2008, Georgian’s team brings together investors with machine learning professionals, software entrepreneurs and experienced operators.
2002
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder
2002