Social Leverage is a microventure capital firm in Arizona that focuses on early-stage investments in the software, consumer, and fintech industries. Founded 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States by Howard Lindzon and Tom Peterson, it invests in early stage ventures, seed, series A, series B, and debt financing. Its portfolio companies include Carpay, 1upHealth, Secfi, ProducePay, and Kustomer. As of February 2020, Social Leverage has made 95 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 10, 2020, when Carpay raised $1.3M. Social Leverage has had 29 exits, the most notable of which include Life360, Bitly, and Orchard Platform. The company has raised three funds, their latest being Social Leverage Capital Fund III. This fund was announced on January 10, 2018 and raised a total of $43M.
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People
Gary Benitt
General Partner
Daniel Jassy
Senior Analyst
Howard Lindzon
Founder & General Partner
Tom Peterson
Co-Founder & General Partner
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1upHealth
Alpaca
Carpay
ChartIQ
Koyfin
Kustomer
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Secfi
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