Chris Laing

partnerships, GTM operator, investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 4 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United States
4
Total investments
1
Early stage
0
Mid stage
1
Late stage
2y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor & Advisor
2026
EarlyBird is a pre-launch fintech platform that turns everyday cashback into fractional investments in early-stage startups. Were currently pre-seed and building toward our alpha launch. Join the waitlist at earlybirdinvesting.co.
Founder / Advisor / Angel Investor
2025
LVC is a venture capital firm and advisory that partners with forward-thinking startups to drive innovation in technology, AI, and impact. We advise early-stage companies on GTM strategies and carry an investment portfolio primarily centered around pre-seed & seed investments.
Investor
2024
Atoms is the one and only shoes for your everyday. One because that’s exactly how many designs we make. Rather than creating a bunch of different things and forcing you to make all the decisions, we are decisive. We are focused. We put all our best ideas in one place. This. One. Shoe. Only because it’s the only shoe you need. The simple styling works for working, walking, doing nothing, the weekend, traveling, whatever. + Atoms are the only sneaker that comes in 1/4 sizes which make them the only sneakers you’ll ever want to wear.
late stageDesign Services
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2026
Investor & Advisor
2026
EarlyBird is a pre-launch fintech platform that turns everyday cashback into fractional investments in early-stage startups. Were currently pre-seed and building toward our alpha launch. Join the waitlist at earlybirdinvesting.co.
Partnerships & GTM
2026
AvePoint is the unifying Trust Layer for AI. AvePoint enables more than 28,000 organizations and 6,000 channel partners to protect, secure, and govern their entire AI estate across data, infrastructure, AI and agents for Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and other leading cloud environments — so that enterprises can deploy AI with confidence and scale innovation without scaling risk. To learn more, visit www.avepoint.com. 
2025
Founder / Advisor / Angel Investor
2025
LVC is a venture capital firm and advisory that partners with forward-thinking startups to drive innovation in technology, AI, and impact. We advise early-stage companies on GTM strategies and carry an investment portfolio primarily centered around pre-seed & seed investments.
Investor
2025
Namecoach aims to solve the common problem of name mispronunciation. No matter your position within an organization, being on either end of a name mispronunciation doesn’t exactly leave you with a good feeling. So, we provide a simple and effective solution: audio name pronunciations seamlessly integrated with your online tools to easily learn and remember how to say them - perfectly. Our product is useful in many education and corporate settings.
2024
Investor
2024
Atoms is the one and only shoes for your everyday. One because that’s exactly how many designs we make. Rather than creating a bunch of different things and forcing you to make all the decisions, we are decisive. We are focused. We put all our best ideas in one place. This. One. Shoe. Only because it’s the only shoe you need. The simple styling works for working, walking, doing nothing, the weekend, traveling, whatever. + Atoms are the only sneaker that comes in 1/4 sizes which make them the only sneakers you’ll ever want to wear.
late stageDesign Services
Investment activity
2024–2026 · 4 investments
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