Lerer Hippeau
lererhippeau.com Direct investor
Lerer Hippeau is a venture capital firm based in New York that invests in early-stage companies, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds. The firm has invested in over 486 companies since 2010 and manages $1.5B in investments.
Lerer Hippeau is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 2010. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in AI/ML, commerce, data & Security and defense. $1.5B under management and 486 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Finding founders before they’re famous.”
— Lerer Hippeau, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- AI/ML, Commerce, Data & Security, Defense, Education, Energy Transition & Climate, FinTech, DeFi, & Blockchain, Food & Beverage, Future of Work & Productivity, Hardware & Robotics, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, PropTech, Supply Chain & Logistics, Wellness & Longevity
- Founded
- 2010
- Assets under management
- $1.5B
- Portfolio
- 486 companies
Team, as Lerer Hippeau publishes it
- Ben Lerer Managing Partner
- Eric Hippeau Managing Partner
- Graham Brown Managing Partner
- Isabelle Phelps Partner
- Ron Zori Venture Partner
- Joe Medved Chief Strategy Officer
- Andrea Hippeau Head of Portfolio Management
- Stephanie Manning COO & Head of Platform
- Emily Libresco Head of Marketing & Communications
- Tafarii McKenzie Director of Product & Network Strategy
- Will McKelvey Principal
- Madeleine Goldberg Investor
Names and roles exactly as listed on lererhippeau.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Lerer Hippeau publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
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- https://www.lererhippeau.com/portfoliolayer, type, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count
- https://www.lererhippeau.com/teamhq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, people
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