Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. It invests in early stage companies and has focused largely on startups in the New York metro region. It offers a full-stack solution that automates plan administration and compliance.
Investments
Lerer Hippeau has raised a total of $453.8 million across 8 funds, their latest being Lerer Hippeau Ventures VI. This fund was announced on April 11, 2018 and raised a total of $122 million. Investments include Birchbox, Refinery 29 and the Huffington Post. Exits include Venmo, SmartThings, Spatial, and Moat.
April 11, 2018
Lerer Hippeau Ventures VI
$122 million
December 27, 2017
Lerer Hippeau Ventures Select Fund II
$60 million
February 1, 2010
Lerer Hippeau Ventures I
$8 million
February 6, 2017
Lerer Hippeau Ventures Select Fund
$27.3 million
June 24, 2014
Lerer Hippeau Ventures IV
$62 million
May 23, 2011
Fund II
$25 million
November 19, 2015
Lerer Hippeau Ventures Fund V
$113 million
October 24, 2012
Lerer Ventures III, LP
$36.5 million
Timeline
Funded Companies
BuzzFeed is digital media and technology company delivering news and entertainment content.
EVEN Financial offers a B2B2C API to help connect financial institutions to consumers, and connect consumers to personalized financial products.
Allbirds is a startup company manufacturing wool footwear.
K Health is an AI-powered health app that empowers consumers with health information based on the experiences of others.
LeafLink is a New York City and Los Angeles-based company that provides a marketplace for wholesale cannabis.
Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.
An insurance technology company offering a platform for employee benefits and insurance.
A company offering an online food marketplace with a curated shop, home and kitchen content, and a community for kitchen and home enthusiasts.
A company offering a software platform for the commercial real estate industry that is leveraging big data and machine learning.
B2B company developing hardware and software solutions to help diagnose a machine's issue through the sound it makes.
June is a consumer electronics company making home automation products, most notably a smart oven called the June Oven.
A company that creates food replacement products
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A technology company making a smart dog collar.
WayUp is a company connecting students with jobs during and after college. It participated in the W15 cohort of Y Combinator.
A company offering live streaming and on-demand fitness classes for users in their homes that is headquartered in New York City.
Twice is a San Francisco-based company.
A company building robots to automate experiments of life scientists
Fundera is a company founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht.
Lab management platform company
Lola is an e-commerce company delivering a lifelong brand of feminine hygiene products.
Online learning tool with courses created by its community
Associated investment funds
People
Amanda Mulay
Senior Talent Manager
Andrea Hippeau
Principal
Andrew Ha
Assistant Controller
Ashley Nawalinski
Executive Assistant
Ben Lerer
Managing Partner
Caitlin Strandberg
Principal
Eric Hippeau
Managing Partner
Graham Brown
Partner
Isabelle Phelps
Associate
Joe Medved
Partner
Josh Gilbert
VP, Finance and CCO
Julian Moncada
Senior Associate
Kenneth Lerer
Managing Partner
Lauren Baldino
Executive Assistant
Lillia Mitov
Office Manager
Natalie Sportelli
Content and Brand Manger
Stephanie Manning
Director of Platform
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