Primary Job Title Founder & Managing Partner Primary Organization 
Impression Ventures
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage
Website impression.ventures LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Prior to becoming a venture capitalist he was a technology founder, having built and sold Virtual Greats, a luxury online IP rights broker, and Millions of Us, a digital agency. He has also taught high-growth technology entrepreneurship at The Next 36 to over 30 companies. Those companies have gone on to build successful products and raise millions
of dollars in follow on financing.
Lassonde spent a decade in San Francisco selling and building software for Second Life, LucasArts and Electronic Arts to customers Sony, Nike, Warner Brothers, General Motors, Coke, Intel and many more Fortune 500 companies.
He holds an MBA from the USF, a BESc in computer engineering and a BSc in computer science from Western. Christian is currently Vice-Chair of SickKids Foundation and serves on the Board of Governors of Western and TFS.
