Lucas Carlson — Email, Phone & Partners

Overview

Lucas Carlson is an angel investor based in San Diego, California, focusing on early-stage technology startups. He has a strong background in product development and engineering, having co-founded and served as CTO for LEADx, a company that developed AI-driven solutions for leadership training. Prior to LEADx, he was the Chief Innovation Officer at CenturyLink, where he launched Panamax, an open-source Docker tool adopted by over 200 companies in its first year. He also founded AppFog, a platform-as-a-service company that ran over 100,000 applications across six public clouds within two years and was acquired by CenturyLink in 2013. Additionally, Carlson co-founded MOG, an early music streaming service acquired by Apple in 2014, which became the foundation of Apple Music's streaming service. He has published and maintained over 20 open-source projects, with more than 9 million downloads and over 1,593 stars across his GitHub projects. Carlson has also authored non-fiction programming books, including the 'Ruby Cookbook'. His investment focus includes sectors such as technology, software, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, SaaS, FinTech, InsurTech, media and entertainment, consumer internet, machine learning, business intelligence, enterprise software, healthcare IT, digital health, and enterprise software. He typically invests between $100,000 and $1,000,000 in seed-stage companies within the United States. His portfolio includes companies like Promoter.io, a customer feedback platform. Carlson is active on LinkedIn and maintains a personal website at lucascarlson.net, where he shares insights on product leadership, AI, and SaaS strategy. He is also open to public speaking engagements and has been featured on various podcasts and radio interviews, including the Unmistakable Creative Podcast and the IBM DeveloperWorks Podcast. Entrepreneurs interested in discussing product leadership, AI, or SaaS strategy can schedule a meeting with him through his website.

Investment Focus

Seed-stage technology startups in the United States

Portfolio Companies

Promoter.io

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What sectors does Lucas Carlson invest in?

Lucas Carlson invests in Technology, Software, FinTech, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health, and is based in California, United States. Lucas Carlson is listed as a angel investor in the ConnectSafely investor database.