Lars Leckie

Current

Principal at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

Past

Co-founder and Dir. Marketing at IntegriNautics (now Novariant)

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Queen's University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Lars Leckie’s Summary

Working with and investing in early stage software companies.

Prior to joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Lars was involved in founding and operational roles at start-up companies. He was a co-founder of AutoFarm (now Novariant), a company focused on GPS and robotics. Lars was in charge of strategy, product marketing, business development and building the sales team across three continents. Lars has also been involved with the founding team of SportBug, a GPS and Internet fitness company. While Lars spends less time programming now, he started his technical career coding and hacking computer games. He is the holder of several US patents.

At Hummer Winblad, Lars played a key role in the firm’s investments in Aria Systems (SaaS billing and customer management) and vKernel (Virtualization Infrastructure).

Lars is an avid sailor and a former member of the Canadian Sailing Team. He represented Canada sailing Snipes in the Pan American Games as well as other international events.

Lars has a Masters of Science (Engineering) from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of business. He also holds an Engineering Physics degree from Queen’s University (with Honors).

Lars Leckie’s Specialties:

Venture Capital Start-Up companies, Software, GPS Equipment, Control Systems, Virtualization, SaaS

Lars Leckie’s Experience

Principal

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

June 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Co-founder and Dir. Marketing

IntegriNautics (now Novariant)

(Computer Hardware industry)

June 1998 — June 2004 (6 years 1 month)