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Lerer Hippeau
Financial Services
New York City, NY 16,256 followers
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund founded and operated in New York City.
About us
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital firm founded and operated in New York City. Since 2010, we have invested in entrepreneurs with great ideas who aren’t afraid to do hard things. Our portfolio includes more than 350 leading enterprise and consumer businesses including Guideline, MIRROR, Blockdaemon, K Health, Allbirds, ZenBusiness, and Thrive. We’re experienced operators who invest early and stay in our founders’ corners as they build iconic companies. Learn more at lererhippeau.com.
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- Financial Services
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- 11-50 employees
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- New York City, NY
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- Privately Held
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- 2010
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- Venture Capital
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Keep up with The Roundup, our weekly newsletter chronicling the latest on our fund, our portfolio companies, and career opportunities in our ecosystem. In this week's edition: > K Health announces study demonstrating the accuracy of its AI medical chat solution > Glossier, Inc. featured in Fast Company > Gary Vaynerchuk profiled in Variety > What we’re reading: Rippling founder discusses AI washing; the role of AI in healthcare; California’s AI legislation > Check out our open roles here: https://lnkd.in/e_BSZbSS Read today’s Roundup: https://lnkd.in/gdVDYWWU Subscribe: https://bit.ly/30C1o1U
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I recently spoke with Ben Lerer, managing partner at Lerer Hippeau. Here’s 3 things I learned from our conversation: 1. 🥱 AI isn’t supposed to be boring. Don’t treat it like it is. - When people think, “How can AI help my company?” they often imagine using generative AI to create content more cheaply or game SEO differently. - Instead, Ben encouraged me to use AI to, “deliver totally new content experiences to customers.” - His advice: Take your consumer-first brain, get pumped on the technological wave that is AI, and dream up experiences for your audience that weren’t possible before this new reality. 2. 💢 Lean into disruption. - If you lead a small company (like I do) it’s a lot easier to turn a motorcycle than it is to turn a battleship. - The big companies cannot adapt to the new technological landscape as quickly as your startup can—lean into it and make flexibility a central pillar of your work. - “Figuring out how to turn AI into your friend and not your enemy is going to be a requirement.” 3. 🕯️ Successful VCs back great founders, not just great ideas. - Ben shared about the companies that got away, the one’s he wished he’d invested in, and the one that sticks out to him most is when his firm passed on investing in Harry's Inc., the shaving company. - He was then and is still today good friends with the co-founder, Jeffrey Raider. He thought he was a great founder at the time and shared that Jeff is, “exactly the kind of person we should be in business with.” And yet, Lerer-Hippeau passed on a very early opportunity to invest in Harry’s, a company now valued at $1.7 billion. - Ben recalls that his decision to pass was rooted in concerns about the “category” that the company was in, instead of trusting in a founder he knew was a winner. Ben says he learned a valuable lesson back then about choosing to back great founders, even when all the details aren’t perfectly ironed out. Check out the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/gY5QcM7e
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Keep up with The Roundup, our weekly newsletter chronicling the latest on our fund, our portfolio companies, and career opportunities in our ecosystem. In this week's edition: > Brad Hiranaga, CBO of Cotopaxi, speaks to Axios > Toshit Panigrahi and Olivia Joslin, co-founders of TollBit, pen a letter to the editor of The Washington Post > Urban Sky profiled in CNN > What we’re reading: why AI founders are leaving their companies; why high-quality data is necessary for successful AI models; surveillance pricing explained > Check out our open roles here: https://lnkd.in/e_BSZbSS Read today’s Roundup: https://lnkd.in/eryi_6dC Subscribe: https://bit.ly/30C1o1U
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LH Managing Partner Ben Lerer went on CNBC to discuss the current venture market, his predictions on when the IPO markets might open up, and how VCs are voting in the upcoming election. https://lnkd.in/emfFXteB
Good companies are getting financed albeit at lower levels than prior years, says Ben Lerer
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