Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital firm founded and operated in New York City. Since 2010, we have invested in entrepreneurs with great ideas who aren’t afraid to do hard things. Our portfolio includes more than 350 leading enterprise and consumer businesses including Guideline, MIRROR, Blockdaemon, K Health, Allbirds, ZenBusiness, and Thrive. We’re experienced operators who invest early and stay in our founders’ corners as they build iconic companies. Learn more at lererhippeau.com.
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Aerflo x Food52 A huge thank you to our venture partners at Lerer Hippeau office, and the amazing Emily Libresco for their continued support in making this milestone possible. Check out #Aerflo on Food52 and see how we’re redefining the sparkling water experience. https://lnkd.in/egM7AAAN
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Really enjoyed speaking with Leo Schwartz about why our team at Lerer Hippeau invested in On Me. Congratulations Darragh Meaney & team on the public debut. It's well-timed for anyone who is looking for a personalized yet versatile gift to give this season!
📰 Big news this morning! We’re excited to announce our $1.7M pre-seed funding round led by Lerer Hippeau! Read about the details in this Fortune article: https://lnkd.in/eMYw5Q6y At On Me, our mission is simple yet powerful: "strengthen relationships through magical gifting experiences." With the holiday season in full swing, we’re excited to help people and companies make gifting more meaningful, secure, and sustainable. We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our incredible team, our trusted partners—Lerer Hippeau, focal, Mastercard—and the amazing brands that make these magical gifting experiences possible. With the holiday season in full swing, we’re thrilled to see a significant rise in corporate gifting, as businesses reward employees and loyal customers for a year of success. Here’s to spreading joy and connection this holiday season!🎄✨ And for all your gifting needs, check us out at onme.com. #DigitalGifting #HolidaySeason #CorporateGifting #OnMe #FortuneMagazine
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Top B2C pre-seed VCs you need to know ⚡ 40 VCs investing early in B2C startups 👇 1. 500 Global 2. A.Capital Ventures 3. Afore Capital 4. Antler 5. APEX Ventures 6. Balderton Capital 7. Bling Capital 8. BoxGroup 9. Concept Ventures 10. devlabs 11. Female Founders Fund 12. FJ Labs 13. Force Over Mass 14. Global Founders Capital 15. GoAhead Ventures 16. GV (Google Ventures) 17. HAX 18. Heartcore Capital 19. Hoxton Ventures 20. Hummingbird Ventures 21. Index Ventures 22. JamJar Investments 23. Kleiner Perkins 24. Lerer Hippeau 25. LocalGlobe 26. Menlo Ventures 27. Octopus Ventures 28. Pear VC 29. Pentech Ventures 30. Playfair 31. Precursor Ventures 32. Rockstart 33. SFC Capital 34. Seedcamp 35. SOSV 36. Spark Capital 37. Speedinvest 38. Techstars 39. True Ventures 40. Y Combinator #venturecapital #founders #fundraising #entrepreneurs ------------------- If you enjoyed this, check out my newsletter, Pitch Boss! In just 5 minutes, you’ll discover the strategies and secrets behind the most successful startup pitches. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gvs635zM
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65 startups on the map and counting 🗺️ NYC's early-stage startup scene is growing quickly 🚀 Congrats to all the startups that've raised a minimum of $1M+ in funding in 2024 🎉 Early-stage NYC startups backed by the likes of General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Primary Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau, Y Combinator, Flybridge, Bling Capital, Maveron, Company Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Tusk Venture Partners, Kairos HQ, Tiger Global Management, Centre Street Partners We missing anyone? Brex, PamPam City, TechCrunch, The Information
Great to chat this year.
Another year of podcasting in the books! Episode 1 was published back on November 6, 2017... so that is over 7 years of podcasting - and it just keeps getting better, as we had the most minutes listened by our audience EVER! Here is a playlist with this year's episodes: https://lnkd.in/ej6q5vEs. The full library is here: https://lnkd.in/eZTcqPNR. Some stats... Total number of episodes = 362 2024 Stats * Episodes = 45 * Guests = 47 (2 episodes had 2 guests) * Location = Boston - 29; NYC - 14; Other - 4 * Role = Founders & CEOs = 26; VCs & Accelerators = 21 A special THANK YOU to our guests this year for sharing each inspirational story and all the amazing advice! 2024 Guest List * Henrik Werdelin - Serial Entrepreneur, Author, & BarkBox Co-Founder * Peter B. - Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund * Michael Duda - Managing Partner at Bullish * Gabi Steele - Co-Founder & CEO at Preql * Ryan Shank - Founder & CEO of ShareWillow * Elizabeth Lawler - Co-Founder & CEO at AppMap * Sameer Gulati - Founder & CEO at Ordway - Billing and Revenue Automation * Alexander Shashou - Co-Founder & Co-CEO at 10Beauty * Dries Buytaert - Co-Founder, CTO & Chief Strategy Officer at Acquia and Founder & Project Lead at Drupal * Reed Sturtevant - General Partner at Engine Ventures * Ellen Chisa - Partner at boldstart ventures * Pano Anthos - Founder & Managing Director at XRC Ventures * Harman Singh Narula - Co-Founder & CEO at Canary Technologies * Rob Go - Co-Founder & Partner at NextView Ventures * Ben Lerer - Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau * Geri Kirilova - Managing Partner at Laconia * Don Bulens - 5 time startup CEO & Executive Chair at CloudZero * Ernesto DiGiambattista - Managing Director at Genesis Accel * Julia Rodgers, Esq. - Co-Founder & CEO at HelloPrenup * Gloria Hwang - Founder & CEO at Thousand * Ran out of space.... the rest of the list is in the comments
LH Managing Partner Ben Lerer was quoted in Ben Bergman and Melia Russell's Business Insider year-end wrap on VC hiring predictions and preferences for 2025. Ben's take: he expects a near-future state of LH in which we hire "younger people who are more natively growing up with AI and think about AI as less of a novelty and more of just a sort of inevitability." https://lnkd.in/eEDSBzdQ
Keep up with The Roundup, our weekly newsletter chronicling the latest on our fund, our portfolio companies, and career opportunities in our ecosystem. In this week's edition: > Zipline profiled by IEEE Spectrum > Haven Energy partners with Clean Power Alliance > Eli Wachs 👣 Wachs included in Senior Executive's “Top Cyber Security Founders to Watch in 2025” > What we’re reading: Executives slow to implement AI for compliance work; agentic AI explained; how Marc Benioff is approaching AI > Check out our open roles here: https://lnkd.in/e_BSZbSS Read today’s Roundup: https://lnkd.in/eBxz9cDi Subscribe: https://bit.ly/30C1o1U
Yesterday's Fortune Term Sheet centered on consumer investments and Lerer Hippeau's storied history writing first checks into consumer and enterprise businesses alike. Leo Schwartz spoke with LH Managing Partner Ben Lerer about our early and lucrative investments in Warby Parker, Allbirds, Casper, and other category-defining D2C businesses. Ben shared his take on why LH had sizable returns in these investments even though not all of these companies reached "atmospheric heights": “The math was wrong for growth funds coming in and thinking that companies that were $100 million revenue companies were going to have a straight run to being billion dollar companies." LH continues to invest in both consumer and enterprise businesses, including recent checks into Ayoh Foods, On Me Gifting, and MOTORMIA, among others. Above all, “Our strategy is founder-centric,” Ben shared, and the "AI tech shift as bringing founders back into certain kinds of consumer applications, just like Facebook ads and the app store did a generation ago." LH's (and the broader ecosystem's) excitement around consumer is alive and well. As Ben put it, “There is this explosion of really cool stuff." https://lnkd.in/ewbAg5H8
LH Managing Partner Ben Lerer spoke with CNBC last week about the state of the venture market, AI, what potential changes in the FTC will mean for dealmaking, and more. https://lnkd.in/eKRwWDn2