Justin LaFayette

Lead Investor, Head of Firm | Georgian

Justin LaFayette is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Georgian Partners. Justin leads Georgian Partner’s investments in Bluecore, DefenseStorm, IEX, Integrate.ai, Polar, PrecisionLender, Signpost, Tealium, Top Hat, True Fit and WorkFusion. Justin also previously led the firm’s investments in 41st Parameter, Kinnser Software, Kony, Shopify, Silanis/eSignLive, Syncsort and Turnitin.

In addition, Justin sits on the Board of Canada Learning Code, a not-for-profit organization with the mission to provide 10 million Canadians access to meaningful technology education experiences by 2027.

Prior to co-founding Georgian Partners in 2008, Justin was Vice President of Strategy for Information Platform and Solutions with IBM Software Group. Previous to that, Justin was a co-founder of DWL, an enterprise software company that grew over 10 years to become a leader in master data management (MDM).