Randall Lucas

Lender to growing software businesses

📍 Seattle, Washington, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Board Observer
2019
ThoughtExchange is the world’s most trusted engagement and survey platform for leaders who drive change and alignment in their communities. 

Using our sophisticated analytics and secure OpenAI integration, get broader participation, deeper insights, and actionable ideas in far less time.

 With ThoughtExchange, you can access thousands of voices in one conversation—and our AI takes care of the data analysis for you, in minutes instead of months. Hear the what, when, how, why (and sometimes where) of your challenge, with just one question. For more information visit https://thoughtexchange.com, email info@thoughtexchange.com or call 1-800-361-9027
Board Observer
2017
Shiftboard is a leading provider of employee scheduling software for shift-based operations in mission-critical industries. Backed by Shiftboard’s tailor-fit solutions, organizations can build adaptive workforce operations that increase operational agility, optimize labor resources, and accommodate workers’ preferences, leading to improved efficiency and higher worker satisfaction and retention rates. To date, Shiftboard has supported over 630 million scheduled shifts for thousands of customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, providing the employment pipeline for $66 billion in wages earned.
Board Observer
2016
Zipwhip is the leading business-texting platform in North America, helping more than 30,000 organizations engage their customers and drive growth through texting. Zipwhip has text-enabled more than 5 million landline and toll-free phone numbers so that businesses can reach their customers immediately, on the channel they prefer. Organizations can text-enable their business lines in minutes and seamlessly fit texting into their existing workflows using Zipwhip’s out-of-the-box software or customizable APIs. And with the most direct carrier connections of any texting provider, Zipwhip offers the fastest and most reliable message delivery in the industry so you know your customers get the message every time. Your customers are only a text away: https://www.zipwhip.com. www.twitter.com/zipwhip www.facebook.com/zipwhip www.instagram.com/zipwhip
Board Observer
2015
TurboPatent has merged with Rowan TELS. Please follow us there and learn about the benefits Rowan can provide you. Reinventing the patent process with TurboPatent® TurboPatent enables patent professionals and corporations to double their patent output and increase their patent quality. There is a business maxim called the “Triple Constraint,"​ which states that between time, cost, and quality, you can only improve two out of the three, and always at the expense of the third. The TurboPatent Machine is the core technology behind TurboPatent products and was developed to break the Triple Constraint for the patent industry. Like CAD for engineering, the cloud for IT infrastructure, and robotics for manufacturing, the TurboPatent Machine raises the bar for the patent industry, allowing for an extreme increase in quality while greatly reducing cost and turn-around time. We utilize the power of the TurboPatent Machine to rapidly evaluate the quality and value of patent assets, creating quality reports for individual patent assets as well as entire portfolios. The TurboPatent Machine also allows our Patent Engineers to generate patent documents at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional methods and with significantly higher quality. TurboPatent Analytics The TurboPatent Machine performs highly efficient, deep analysis of assets throughout the patenting process to improve quality, and to inform decisions related to risk, valuation, acquisition, pruning and practitioner evaluation. Patent Documents Our expert patent engineers operate The TurboPatent Machine to deliver high quality applications, Office action shells and responses at a fraction of the cost and turn-around time of the traditional, human-centered practices.
Board Observer
2015
Kaggle provides cutting-edge data science, faster and better than most people ever thought possible. We have a proven track-record of solving real-world problems across a diverse array of industries including pharmaceuticals, financial services, energy, information technology, and retail. Kaggle offers both public and private data science competitions and on-demand consulting by an elite global talent pool.
Board Observer
2008
AWS Elemental simplifies how content creators, rights holders, producers, broadcasters, and distributors use the cloud to build, deploy, and reinvent media workloads, making it easier to select the right tools and achieve faster time to value.
Board Observer
2007
Yapta’s mission is simple. We help businesses reduce travel costs. Our technology is leading edge. We provide real-time price tracking of airfares and hotel rates across the globe via FareIQ and RoomIQ. Our TravelAI advanced analytics delivers insights from more than $15 billion in tracked hotel spend. Our customers are world class. 8,000+ customers, including 125 of the Fortune 500, have realized over $200 million in travel savings with Yapta.
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2021
Managing Director
2021
SaaS Capital is the leading provider of growth debt designed explicitly for B2B SaaS companies. SaaS Capital’s growth debt is structured to provide a significant source of committed funding, deployment flexibility, and lower overall cost of capital, all while avoiding the loss of control associated with selling equity. SaaS Capital was the first to offer lending alternatives to SaaS businesses based on their future recurring revenue. Since 2007, SaaS Capital has committed more than $375 million in growth debt facilities to deliver better outcomes for our 110+ clients, resulting in more than $2 billion in total enterprise value created.
2019
Board Observer
2019
ThoughtExchange is the world’s most trusted engagement and survey platform for leaders who drive change and alignment in their communities. 

Using our sophisticated analytics and secure OpenAI integration, get broader participation, deeper insights, and actionable ideas in far less time.

 With ThoughtExchange, you can access thousands of voices in one conversation—and our AI takes care of the data analysis for you, in minutes instead of months. Hear the what, when, how, why (and sometimes where) of your challenge, with just one question. For more information visit https://thoughtexchange.com, email info@thoughtexchange.com or call 1-800-361-9027
2017
Board Observer
2017
Shiftboard is a leading provider of employee scheduling software for shift-based operations in mission-critical industries. Backed by Shiftboard’s tailor-fit solutions, organizations can build adaptive workforce operations that increase operational agility, optimize labor resources, and accommodate workers’ preferences, leading to improved efficiency and higher worker satisfaction and retention rates. To date, Shiftboard has supported over 630 million scheduled shifts for thousands of customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, providing the employment pipeline for $66 billion in wages earned.
2016
Board Observer
2016
Zipwhip is the leading business-texting platform in North America, helping more than 30,000 organizations engage their customers and drive growth through texting. Zipwhip has text-enabled more than 5 million landline and toll-free phone numbers so that businesses can reach their customers immediately, on the channel they prefer. Organizations can text-enable their business lines in minutes and seamlessly fit texting into their existing workflows using Zipwhip’s out-of-the-box software or customizable APIs. And with the most direct carrier connections of any texting provider, Zipwhip offers the fastest and most reliable message delivery in the industry so you know your customers get the message every time. Your customers are only a text away: https://www.zipwhip.com. www.twitter.com/zipwhip www.facebook.com/zipwhip www.instagram.com/zipwhip
2015
Partner
2015
Voyager Capital is a leading Pacific Northwest venture firm providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience and connections to build successful technology companies. Voyager leads first venture round investments in software, analytics and cloud infrastructure startups, deploying the firms domain expertise, go-to-market and team building resources help build market leaders. The firm has offices in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon."​
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