Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund founded and operated in New York City.
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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 generation of founders while maintaining focus in approach. This fund also includes several dozen LH portfolio founders as limited partners – a fact we’re really proud of as we think it best exemplifies what this community means to the people who comprise it.
With this raise, LH is also celebrating 15 years of supporting early stage founders by serving as their first and most aligned institutional partner. We feel lucky to be doing this work and are honored that founders continue to choose us as their partners.
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Congratulations to LH portfolio company @usefootprint on raising their $25M Series B 🎉
Today I'm excited to share that @usefootprint has raised a $25M Series B, bringing our total funding to $45M.
Financial institutions are in an arms race with cartels and oligarchs.
The movement of illicit money globally has grown by $1.3 trillion since 2023, now sitting at $4.4 trillion. And bad actors have taken full advantage of AI’s capabilities: generating fake identities and shell companies faster than any team can manually review.
Yet, the work to combat financial crimes is still being done the old way - risk teams sifting through spreadsheets, PDFs, and disconnected tools one case at a time.
AI lets us reimagine this sector.
We're solving for this at @usefootprint by focusing on two things: time and memory.
→ Time: Percy runs your compliance program end-to-end in 1/10th the time, so your institution has extra eyes on every case, and your human analysts dedicate their time to the ones that truly matter.
→ Memory: Trust Fabric makes sure the grey area is removed and learnings are universal so your team (whether 5 or 500 people) catches more true positives and identifies fraud rings before they form.
With this raise, we're doubling down on the thesis that risk operations will be re-envisioned for the AI-native era. As AI increases financial crime in the global economy, we're building the defense system that can expand to meet and defeat it.
We're honored @QEDInvestors doubled down on their conviction, leading our Series B two years after leading our Series A. The same goes for those who have invested since day one: @lererhippeau, @indexventures, @BoxGroup, Operator Partners, Definition, and @animalcapitalco. And for new investors @am_mufg_jp, @commercevc, @lightbank, and @alumniventures.
To the Footprint team: this company would be nowhere without your belief in building a digital world full of trust. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being on this journey with us.
To our customers: thank you for trusting us with your most important decisions. Your partnership is helping us build a better future for financial crime compliance.
Full story on our blog: onefootprint.com/learn/serie…
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We are LIVE in 1 hour!
Today on TWiST, we're joined by @BenjLerer, Managing Partner of @LererHippeau.
After 15 years of seed investing, he's done chasing "good" businesses and only swings that break the power law count now.
Tune in!
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Please welcome Type, our latest investment. @typedotcom is a shared multiplayer workspace platform that enables teams to compound the best work their AI produces and build fluid and continuous workstreams.
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Today we're officially launching @typedotcom, the shared space for your team's best AI work.
Teams need a central place to build apps, skills and automations together. Not swarms of agents.
Our ambition with Type is to be the last piece of software your team will ever need.
To build this, we've raised $4m from @LererHippeau, @haystackvc, @MatchstickVC, and angels from Slack, Github, and Ramp.
So what does Type do?
→ share work from Claude chats into a collaborative space
→ switch harness or model any time
→ manage integrations with granular permissions
→ a central place to deploy apps and automations together
→ build a self-learning company brain
→ use your existing Claude or ChatGPT subscription
Companies like @rayconglobal, @Intelligems and @trueclassictees are already running tens of thousands of successful agent jobs that forecast revenue, manage inventory, answer support tickets, and a lot more.
We're blown away every day at the custom tools and automations our customers are building.
What's something you haven't yet been able to solve or automate in your business? Tell us in the comments and we'll respond by building it for you in Type!
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Lerer Hippeau is one of the most AI-forward venture firms we work with at Standard Metrics.
Case in point: reporting on 150+ portfolio companies used to take @LererHippeau 15 days each quarter. Now, boosted by @metrics_co's AI tools, it only takes two.
We recently sat down with their team to talk about how we fit into their workflows, and where else AI is improving fund operations.
Full case study in the comments.
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25 VCs I'd recommend if you're trying to fundraise in NYC:
- @htaneja | @GeneralCatalyst
- @djparekh | @insightpartners
- @joshk | @firstround
- @johnelton | @greycroftvc
- @joevc | @LererHippeau
- @porteous | @rre
- @OrbiMed
- @nkatragadda | @boxgroup
- @thione | @gaingelsvc
- @HenryLMcNamara | @GreatOaksVC
- @generalatlantic
- @wolfejosh | @Lux_Capital
- @albertwenger | @usv
- @sbarsh | @dreamit
- @john_frankel | @ffvc
- @stevenkrein | @StartUpHealth
- @mattturck | @firstmarkcap
- @JoshuaKushner | @ThriveCapital
- @cshapiro | @collabfund
- @Borthwick | @betaworks
- @robgo | @NextViewVC
- @startupman | @compoundvc
- @ryanfeit | @seedinvest
- @villi | @Category_VC
- @jefielding | @EverywhereVC
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We're hosting THE tech poker event of the year 🃏
@MetaPropNYC, @usv, @leftlanecap, @lererhippeau, @chapterone, and @vcnycre — with partners Pure Poker, @rhobusiness, and @Novig — present @TableStakesVC NYC: an upscale poker tournament exclusive to founders on Thursday, Sept 24.
Imagine 100-150 of the top founders (and select startup operators/investors) in one room over cards. Plus, an amazing venue, professional dealers, food and an open bar, music and entertainment... and at least one Poker Hall of Famer in the room.
Founders — request your seat: luma.com/4lsxe49t
P.S. - If you want to get involved, reach out to me!
@seidtweets, @uninsightful, Maurice Russo, Carlie Malone, @asadighi, @PartenDrewL, @j__fort, @jacob_bulbulia
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We’re hosting the tech poker event of the year!! ♥️♣️♦️♠️
Epic lineup of funds: @usv @leftlanecap @LererHippeau @chapterone @MetaPropNYC Venture Commercial
Amazing partners: pure poker, @rhobusiness, @Novig
And a very special guest - the GOAT @Erik_Seidel - was kind enough to agree to play 🔥
200+ founders, engineers + operators
Sept 24th in NYC 📍
Sign up here: luma.com/4lsxe49t
@jackson_feder, @uninsightful, Maurice Russo, Carlie Malone, @asadighi, @PartenDrewL, @j__fort, @jacob_bulbulia
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LH Managing Partner @BenjLerer spoke with @LizSegran at @FastCompany about shifts in consumer attitudes and purchasing behaviors. Ben's take: we're at a major inflection point, and founders and brand builders will need to be increasingly nimble and responsive to keep up.
Sixteen years ago, in LH's earliest days investing, consumer brands were in their heyday: the rapid rise of social media and the democratization of supply chains, combined with some very sleepy incumbents, meant lower barriers to entry for DTC brands.
Today’s landscape looks different - consumers are savvier, and they’re skeptical of brands trying to sell them exclusively on lifestyle. They want products that make them feel better on day one (LH portfolio companies Climatic, Brami, Ayoh, Elm Biosciences are growing in a way that exemplifies perfectly this trend). Founders should take notice, and prioritize high-quality ingredients, durable products, real expertise - in Ben's words, "What is inside the bottle matters more than it used to."
Full article linked in comments.
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Link to full article: fastcompany.com/91579929/gen…
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Huge partnership news from LH portfolio company @zipline
What if your dinner could fly over traffic instead of sitting in it? We are now scaling to provide Uber Eats more than 1 million autonomous deliveries a day. Uber is becoming an investor in Zipline. We’ve entered the scaling era for robotics and physical AI.
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Congratulations to Max Wechter on his promotion to Senior Director of AI. In this role, Max will continue and expand upon the work he's already done leading our internal AI strategy at LH.
Under Max's leadership, we've built a firm-wide operating system, data layer, and MCP to help manage all aspects of our business - our networks, our founders and portfolio companies, and a huge range of our sourcing, investment, and operational processes.
We're excited to share more of our learnings as we continue to define what it means to operate as an AI-native venture firm, best equipped to support early stage founders from day negative 1.
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Meet our newest team member: Tafarii McKenzie. Tafarii joins our team as Director of Product & Network Strategy. She began her career as a software developer, and has since worked in product, most recently leading a product team at Uber. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan. Welcome, Tafarii.
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I have zero doubt that the P-1 team is going to change the world for the better. So proud of all they've accomplished so far and excited for what's to come.
Welcome to the fam, @JeffImmelt / @NEA / @lilatretikov!
We're excited to announce the initial closing of our $50 million Series A, led by @NEA , and to welcome @JeffImmelt, former Chairman & CEO of GE, to our board.
Our mission: Put an AI engineer on every engineering team at every industrial company on earth.
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Congratulations to LH portfolio company @P_1_AI on raising their $50M Series A 🎉
We're excited to announce the initial closing of our $50 million Series A, led by @NEA , and to welcome @JeffImmelt, former Chairman & CEO of GE, to our board.
Our mission: Put an AI engineer on every engineering team at every industrial company on earth.
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We're looking for an Investor to join our team in NYC.
This is a sourcing role first. Our investors help us meet the next great founders before anyone else. They're the people out in the ecosystem building relationships, chasing down themes, and developing the deal sense to know what's worth our conviction. It's a central seat at a flat, inclusive firm with a strong track record of promoting from within and helping our team grow.
Your path here could look like a lot of things: maybe you built a product at a fast-growing startup or have invested at another firm. What matters less is the exact resume; what matters most is how you work, how you think about founders, and the networks you've built.
This is a full-time, in-office role based in New York City.
Apply via link in comments.
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Link to full job description: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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