Higher Ground Labs
highergroundlabs.com Direct investor
Higher Ground Labs is a venture fund and ecosystem builder investing in technology for political progress. It invests early in political technology companies focused on bettering democracy, and supports founders through its accelerator and ecosystem building.
Higher Ground Labs is a venture capital firm headquartered in United States, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to growth, in political technology, democracy, campaigns and organizing. 80 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in and support companies that advance political progress from pre-seed to exit.”
— Higher Ground Labs, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- political technology, democracy, campaigns, organizing
- Founded
- 2017
- Portfolio
- 80 companies
Team, as Higher Ground Labs publishes it
- Betsy Hoover Founder and Managing Partner
- Hillary Lehr Managing Director, Fund V
- Leah Bae Principal
- Gerard Niemira Managing Director, Fund IV
- Shomik Dutta Co-Founder and Board Member
- Andrew McLaughlin Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on highergroundlabs.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 22 co-investors found.
- Tech Square Ventures 2 shared companies: joinpaladin.com, pluralpolicy.com
- Dreamers Management LLC 1 shared company: community.com
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 1 shared company: community.com
- Shrug, LLC 1 shared company: community.com
- Sony Innovation Fund 1 shared company: community.com
- Clocktower Technology Ventures 1 shared company: wethos.co
- Flybridge Capital 1 shared company: wethos.co
- Miramar Digital Ventures 1 shared company: wethos.co
- AlleyCorp 1 shared company: kiipco.com
- Designer Fund 1 shared company: hustle.com
and 12 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Higher Ground Labs publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://highergroundlabs.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, portfolio_count, status
- https://highergroundlabs.com/people/people
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Record 2022 · added 2026-08-29 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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