Tobias Lütke

North America, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa

Description

Tobi Lütke founded Shopify in 2004. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer since 2008.

Tobi worked on the core team of the Ruby on ...

Investor Profile

Tobias Lütke has backed more than 40 startups, with 6 new investments in the last 12 months alone. The firm has led 2 rounds, about 5% of its total and boasts 2 exits across its portfolio.

Investment Focus Highlights

Concentrates on Seed, Series A, Series B rounds (top funding stages).
Majority of deals are located in United States, Canada, United Kingdom.
Strong thematic focus on Software, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning.

Stage Focus

Seed (33%)
Series A (25%)
Series B (20%)
Series Unknown (8%)
Pre Seed (8%)
Angel (3%)
Series E (3%)
Series D (3%)

Country Focus

United States (45%)
Canada (38%)
United Kingdom (8%)
Sweden (5%)
India (3%)

Industry Focus

Software
Artificial Intelligence (Ai)
Machine Learning
Fintech
Saas
Internet
Financial Services
Cleantech
Forestry
Marketplace

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Learn who this investor regularly partners with—both firms and angels—and explore their latest activity.

Who does Tobias Lütke frequently co-invest with?

Golden Ventures

North America, Ontario, Canada, Toronto

Co-Investments: 4

Designer Fund

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Co-Investments: 2

Y Combinator

North America, California, United States, Mountain View

Co-Investments: 3

Day One Ventures

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Co-Investments: 3

Accel

North America, California, United States, Palo Alto

Co-Investments: 3

Bessemer Venture Partners

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Co-Investments: 3

Andreessen Horowitz

North America, California, United States, Menlo Park

Co-Investments: 4

Seven Seven Six

North America, Florida, United States, Palm Beach Gardens

Co-Investments: 3

Lerer Hippeau

North America, New York, United States, New York

Co-Investments: 3

OSS Capital L.P.

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Co-Investments: 4

Which angels does Tobias Lütke often collaborate with?

Guillermo Rauch

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Shared Deals: 5

Jay Simons

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Shared Deals: 3

Nat Friedman

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Shared Deals: 3

Amjad Masad

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Shared Deals: 3

Alexis Ohanian

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Shared Deals: 2

Naval Ravikant

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Shared Deals: 6

Jeff Bezos

North America, Washington, United States, Seattle

Shared Deals: 3

Harley Finkelstein

North America, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa

Shared Deals: 5

Elad Gil

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Shared Deals: 4

Stewart Butterfield

North America, California, United States, San Francisco

Shared Deals: 3

What are some of recent deals done by Tobias Lütke?

Manifold Labs

Austin, Texas, United States

Manifold Labs is a decentralized AI infrastructure company.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Decentralized Finance (DeFi)Robotics

Series AJul 30, 2025

Amount Raised: $10,500,000

Sundial

Palo Alto, California, United States

Sundial is an AI-native analytics platform that helps teams centralize data, generate insights, and drive faster, smarter decisions.

AnalyticsBusiness Information SystemsInformation Technology

Series AJul 8, 2025

Amount Raised: $23,000,000

Polar

Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

Polar is a subscription network for open-source maintainers and backers.

Open SourceSoftwareSubscription Service

SeedJun 18, 2025

Amount Raised: $10,000,000

Granola

London, England, United Kingdom

Granola is an AI notepad that transcribes and summarizes meetings from your device, helping users stay organized without joining calls.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Meeting SoftwareSaaSSoftware

Series BMay 14, 2025

Amount Raised: $43,000,000

Neo Financial

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Neo Financial is a FinTech company that provides spending, savings, and rewards programs.

FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTech

Series DNov 11, 2024

Amount Raised: $79,021,115

Butler

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Butler is an agentic and secure powerhouse for you and your team's data.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Software

Pre SeedOct 23, 2024

Amount Raised: $850,000

Socket

Stanford, California, United States

Socket is a developer-first security platform that protects your most critical apps from software supply chain attacks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityDeveloper ToolsInternetOpen SourceSecuritySoftware

Series BOct 22, 2024

Amount Raised: $40,000,000

Raycast

London, England, United Kingdom

Raycast is a developer of a command bar software intended to assist developers to control their tools.

AppsInformation TechnologySoftware

Series BSep 25, 2024

Amount Raised: $30,050,050

Promptfoo

Promptfoo finds & fixes LLM vulnerabilities before they are shipped to production.

Open Source

SeedJul 23, 2024

Amount Raised: $5,000,000

Perplexity AI

San Francisco, California, United States

Perplexity AI is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)ChatbotGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSearch Engine

Series UnknownApr 23, 2024

Amount Raised: $62,700,000

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