Lerer Hippeau
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Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund founded and operated in New York City.
New York, NY
Joined May 2010
Today, we’re excited to announce that Lerer Hippeau has closed $200M in new capital for our ninth seed fund. We’ll invest LH Fund IX in pre-seed and seed-stage companies. This fund represents an increase from LH Fund VIII’s $140M, and a continued commitment to supporting the next
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Happy holidays from Lerer Hippeau. It wouldn’t be December if we didn’t celebrate with several hundred of our nearest and dearest.
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Please welcome AIR Platforms, our latest announced investment. @AIRPlatforms is an AI-powered credit intelligence platform that delivers continuous, bias-free credit ratings for private and public credit.
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Dear @LererHippeau: Your holiday event at Pastis last night was awesome! Saw lots of old friends and met a huge potential customer. Thank you!
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Please welcome OnProfit, our latest announced investment. OnProfit’s AI-platform Revenue Automation identifies and executes on revenue opportunities, turning sales capacity from a fixed human constraint into an elastic resource. https://t.co/l9ZfxKVYsM
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Helpful analysis on key breakthroughs in the world of agentic training from LH portfolio company @ScaledCognition
New blog post - Prompt Trees: Training-time Prefix Caching. By the research team at @scaledcognition. TL;DR: Training speedups of up to 70x on tree-structured data. Not 70%. _70x_. https://t.co/EYD96dHAHk (preprint version coming soon)
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Please welcome Built AI, our latest announced investment. Built AI uses machine learning to automate the extraction, modeling, and analysis of building data to help real estate clients manage their existing portfolios and underwrite new investments.
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LH Managing Partner @BenjLerer chatting with fellow New York seed investors at the @mxvcapital Summit
Huge kudos to @Markgher for a great MXV Summit. Loved the NYC-first lens with so many local founders + investors. On our State of the VC Landscape panel, we covered the expected AI themes, but @BenjLerer guided us into a great discussion on what makes the founder-seed investor
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LH Managing Partner @BenjLerer spoke with @AdamBBryant about his leadership approach and how he advises founders. Adam interviewed Ben for The @nytimes' Corner Office column in 2012. We enjoyed comparing Ben's takes on leadership, 13 years apart. 2025:
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Ben Lerer, managing partner at Lerer Hippeau, an early-stage venture capital firm, shared his key leadership insights in my latest "Art of Leading" interview. Subscribe here to receive future...
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Please welcome Board, our latest announced investment. @Boardisfun is a technology company on a mission to reimagine play for the digital age. Its first product fuses screen-powered interactivity with tactile, shared gameplay to create a new category of “together-tech.”
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Please welcome Forum AI, our latest announced investment. @TheForumAI is building a platform that brings human judgement to artificial intelligence. https://t.co/N6XsdYtG43
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Please welcome Magic, our latest announced investment. Magic is transforming real-world experiences with AI, starting with restaurants. https://t.co/eipzu8BKb2
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Meet Magic, the latest addition to Lerer Hippeau’s portfolio.
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LH Managing Partner @BenjLerer spoke with @theinformation about our recent consumer investments and upside in the space. Ben's take: “You can build really great and actually quite valuable businesses...you just have to do it differently.” https://t.co/iTSLw1p7Ip
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Lately, venture capitalist Ben Lerer has found himself experiencing a bit of déjà vu: Once again, there’s a whole nest of thriving e-commerce startups worth his attention. When I reached him a couple...
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Please welcome Armstrong, our latest announced investment. @ArmstrongRobots is a robotics company building general purpose robots for restaurant kitchens. https://t.co/sc7HJP62bn
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Meet Armstrong, the latest addition to Lerer Hippeau’s portfolio.
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Please welcome Altitude, our latest announced investment. Altitude is the AI-powered platform for the clinical workforce, purpose-built to advance clinician learning, practice, and growth. https://t.co/UeAxNemeZS
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Meet Altitude, the latest addition to Lerer Hippeau’s portfolio.
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Scenes from #SFTechWeek 🎤🤖 @rquintini joined Carl Fudge, CEO of Presentation Mode, Leshika Samarasinghe, Founder of Twine Ventures, and @Emily_Libresco, Head of Marketing and Communications at @LererHippeau, for an honest conversation on how AI founders can rise above the
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