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Laura Lenz

Partner at OMERS Ventures

Toronto, Ontario

Overview 

Laura Lenz is a Partner at OMERS Ventures in Toronto, Ontario, with a strong background in venture capital and private equity. Her career highlights include leading investments in companies like Solink (Series C) and Bold Commerce (Series B) and serving on the boards of multiple successful startups. With experience at firms like Generation Ventures and EdgeStone Capital Partners, Laura has a proven track record in strategic investments and portfolio management, focusing on sectors such as Retail, AgTech, and E-commerce.

Work Experience 

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OMERS Ventures

  • 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

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Float

  • Investor

    2025

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TouchBistro

  • Investor and Board Member

    2024

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OneVest

  • Investor and Board Member

    2023

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Solink

  • 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.

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Hopper

  • Investor and Board Member

    2024

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Wrk

  • Investor and Board Member

    2021

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Bold Commerce

  • Investor and Board Member

    2020

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Generation Ventures

  • 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)

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MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund

  • Investment Director

    2011 - 2014

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

Education 

Investments 

Solink

Series Unknown

Total funding: $94M

OneVest

Series A

Total funding: $13M

Moves

Seed

Total funding: $5M

Wrk

Series A

Total funding: $34M

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