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Lerer Ventures

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Lerer Ventures is a New York-based, seed stage venture capital fund run by Ken and Ben Lerer. LV invests in founders in the earliest stages of a startup’s life, seeking out those entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and unwavering ambition. Its portfolio includes betaworks, chartbeat, Canvas Networks, Simple (formerly BankSimple), gdgt, GroupMe, Greplin, and Venmo.

Recent Milestones

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  Lerer Ventures invested in Skift. (5/15/13)
  Posted 5/15/13 at 6:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Pay with Cover. (5/8/13)
  Posted 5/8/13 at 3:22pm
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  Lerer Ventures invested in NowThisNews. (5/8/13)
  Posted 5/9/13 at 2:20am via venturebeat.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Panna. (5/6/13)
  Posted 5/8/13 at 5:52am via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Just Sing It. (4/25/13)
  Posted 4/26/13 at 11:33pm via dowjones.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Food52. (3/28/13)
  Posted 3/28/13 at 5:09pm via paidcontent.org
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  Lerer Ventures invested in JIBE. (2/5/13)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 4:58am via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Circa. (1/19/13)
  Posted 1/19/13 at 8:02pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Refinery29. (1/12/13)
  Posted 1/11/13 at 7:36pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in BuzzFeed. (1/3/13)
  Posted 1/3/13 at 6:17pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in IFTTT. (12/20/12)
  Posted 12/20/12 at 7:21pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in SmartThings. (12/4/12)
  Posted 12/4/12 at 8:56pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Consumr. (12/4/12)
  Posted 1/2/13 at 6:33pm via wsj.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Spindle. (11/16/12)
  Posted 11/16/12 at 8:35pm via finsmes.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in OrderGroove. (11/6/12)
  Posted 11/5/12 at 8:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Picturelife. (11/2/12)
  Posted 1/14/13 at 11:45am via techcrunch.com

Investments

Videos

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1. A Father and Son Team That Founds Web Start-Ups Wants to Finance Them, Too: Ken and Ben Lerer Get Their Own Fund (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
2. Lerer Ventures Raises Second $25M Seed Fund for NYC Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. NYC’s Lerer Ventures Raising $30M Third Fund For Early-Stage Investments (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4Chan’s Moot Joins Lerer Ventures As An Advisor (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. PaidContent Founder Rafat Ali Raises Another $1.1M For Skift, His Site For Travel News And Data (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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6. NowThisNews raises $4.8M to be the Buzzfeed of video journalism (venturebeat.com) [edit]
7. Panna, A Video-Based Cooking “Magazine” For iOS, Raises $1.35 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. AnyoneGame Calls Down $1M for 'Just Sing It' App (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
9. Cooking site Food52 raises $2M to expand publishing, mobile and shopping initiatives (paidcontent.org) [edit]
10. JIBE Raises $10M Series B To Make Even More Job Applications Mobile-Friendly (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer Ventures To Revolutionize Mobile News Delivery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Refinery29 Raises $3.5 Million Through A Private Offering, According To SEC Filing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Social Publishing FTW: With 40M Users, Jonah Peretti’s BuzzFeed Raises Another $19.3M Led By NEA (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. IFTTT Raises $7M From Andreessen, NEA And Lerer To Connect Web Services, Apps And The Internet Of Things (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. SmartThings Closes $3M Seed Round, Led By First Round Capital, Launches Competition To Grow Community Of Smart Object Developers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Consmr Raises $565K in Seed Funding (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
17. Spindle Labs Raises $2.3M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
18. OrderGroove Raises $7M To Help Brands Enable Subscription Commerce (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman Raises $4M For Picturelife, An App For Backing Up Your Photos In The Cloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Paul Berry’s Rebel Mouse raises $2.5 million from an A-list group of investors (pandodaily.com) [edit]
21. Grokr Raises Another $2.4 Million in Quest to Bring Google-Now-Like Service to iOS (allthingsd.com) [edit]
22. Ride-Sharing Startup SideCar Raises $10 Million From Lightspeed And Google Ventures To Expand Into New Markets (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. Joor Banks $3.25M to Modernize Fashion Wholesale (pandodaily.com) [edit]
24. Confirmed: Scopely’s New $8.5M Funding Round Was Not Wrapped In Bacon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. Disrupt San Francisco Early Bird Special news Comment 0 inShare14 Twice Raises $4M From IA, SV Angel And CrunchFund For Its Concierge-Style Secondhand Clothing Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Thrillist Media Group raises a whopping $13M (news.cnet.com) [edit]
27. Thrillist Media Group raises $13M in first funding round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
28. ClassDojo Lands $1.6M From Paul Graham, Ron Conway To Help Teachers Control Their Classrooms (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. Turf Geography Club Launches with $600K from RRE, Vaizra, Lerer (pandodaily.com) [edit]
30. YouTube Sensation BalconyTV Secures Funds From Polaris, Lerer And Greycroft (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. LittleBits Picks Up $3.65M, PCH Deal To Build Out Its Open-Source Hardware Vision (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. Fashion-Focused Blog Aggregator Bloglovin Raises $1M From Betaworks And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Home Swapping Startup CasaHop Raises $1.2 Million From First Round, Lerer Ventures, Betaworks, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Moped Raises $1 Million From Betaworks And SV Angel To Become Twitter For Private Messages Only (businessinsider.com) [edit]
35. VHX Raises $1.25 Million From Lerer Ventures And Angels To Democratize Video Distribution Online (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. Would-Be ‘Instagram for Publishing’ CheckThis Raises $910K From Lerer Ventures and Others (betabeat.com) [edit]
37. With new funding, Group Commerce looks beyond daily deals (gigaom.com) [edit]
38. Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
39. Clicks Be Gone: AdTech Disrupter Moat Raises $12M Series B From Mayfield, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. New Orleans’ Neighborland Raises Seed Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
41. Roomorama And Lofty Merge Online Rental Sites, Take $2.1M Seed Round From ProFounders, Lerer Media (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. Kingfish Labs Raises $500,000 To Turn Facebook Profiles Into Dating Profiles And Mutual Friends Into Matchmakers (businessinsider.com) [edit]
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44. Sunglass.io Raises USD 1.7 Million from General Catalyst Partners, Mitch Kapor And Others (yourstory.in) [edit]
45. With $2M In Tow, Branch Teams Up With Twitter Co-Founders’ Obvious For ‘New Brand Of Discourse’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. Branch Raises $2 Million From SV Angel And Others (businessinsider.com) [edit]
47. Backed By Lerer And SV Angel, Newsle Launches To Let You Track News About Your Friends (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. Crowd-Sourced Learning Platform Memrise Nabs $1.05M From Matt Mullenweg, Lerer Ventures And More! (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Social Ridesharing Startup Ridejoy Raises $1.3M From Freestyle Capital, Lerer Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
50. Sarah Lacy’s PandoDaily launches with $2.5 million in funding (gigaom.com) [edit]
51. Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get Their News (techcrunch.com) [edit]
52. After Three Years Of Bootstrapping, RJMetrics Raises $1.2 Million From Fab's CEO And SoftTech (businessinsider.com) [edit]
53. IFTTT, A Glue Gun For Sticking The Web Together, Raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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56. Tutorspree Raises $1 Million Round Led By Sequoia Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
57. BestVendor Raises $3M For Work App Recommendation Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
58. Percolate Raises $1.5 Million From Dave Morin And First Round Capital To Turn Brands Into Tumblrs (businessinsider.com) [edit]
59. Percolate Raises $1.5 M. and Turns Away from Consumers to Helping Brands Curate Content (betabeat.com) [edit]
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61. Science Exchange’s Marketplace For Research Facilities Gets A $1.5 Million Boost (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. Hail A Fellow Human, Not A Taxi With “SideCar” – The New P2P Uber (techcrunch.com) [edit]
63. NewsCred gets $4 million to reinvent the newswire (gigaom.com) [edit]
64. Dispatch Raises $965K To Manage All Of Your Cloud Files From One Place (techcrunch.com) [edit]
65. GoodRx Grabs $1M+ From SV Angel, Founders Fund & More To Help You Find Cheap Prescription Drugs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
66. Y Combinator Startup Hyperink Raises $1.2 Million To Launch A Skillshare For Books (businessinsider.com) [edit]
67. Stylish Eyewear Maker Warby Parker Tries On $12M In Funding (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
68. Smart Email Provider Sailthru Raises $8 Million Round Led By RRE Ventures (businessinsider.com) [edit]
69. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
70. Accel Leads $10.5M Round In Cosmetics Discovery Platform Birchbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
71. Tablet Education Startup ShowMe Raises $800,000 From Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, And Betaworks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
72. Ex-Forbes.com CEO's Spanfeller Media Group Scores $6 Million In Funding (businessinsider.com) [edit]
73. Venmo Blog (tmblr.co) [edit]
74. Visual Revenue Secures $512K (finsmes.com) [edit]
75. JOOR Raises $2.25 Million For Private Online Fashion Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
76. TheStreet (thestreet.com) [edit]
77. MongoHQ Raises $417K From Y Combinator, Lerer And SV Angel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
78. Peter Thiel, Lerer Ventures And Others Put $600K In BestVendor (techcrunch.com) [edit]
79. Pulse Raises $9 Million in Series A Financing from NEA, Greycroft Partners and Lerer Ventures (reuters.com) [edit]
80. Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe's $5M "Series Awesome" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
81. Union Square Ventures Leads $3M Round In 4chan Founder Moot’s New Startup Canvas (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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83. DFJ Leads $6 Million Round For Social Job Board Jibe (techcrunch.com) [edit]
84. Local Q&A Site Hipster Raises $1M From Google Ventures, Lightbank, 500 Startups And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
85. NYC Startup Group Commerce Raises An Additional $10 Million And Says It Could Have Raised More (businessinsider.com) [edit]
86. Adaptly Raises $2.7 Million To Facilitate Cross Platform Social Ad Buys (techcrunch.com) [edit]
87. Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel Back Personalized, Designer Quality E-Commerce Platform Everlane (techcrunch.com) [edit]
88. Social Game Developer A Bit Lucky Scores $5M From Nexon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
89. Tapad Announces Investors in First Real-time Advertising Platform for Smart Devices (adexchanger.com) [edit]
90. Popdust Raises New Round of Financing Led by Lerer Media Ventures (pressitt.com) [edit]
91. GraphEffect Raises $2 Million To Increase Brand “Likes” On Facebook (techcrunch.com) [edit]
92. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
93. techcrunch.com [edit]
94. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
95. AxialMarket Closes $2M Financing Round (axialmarket.com) [edit]
96. Makeup Discovery Service BirchBox Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
97. SeatGeek Secures A Deal With The Wall Street Journal And $550k In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
98. “Stealth” Advertising Startup AK Networks Raises $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
99. TechCrunch [edit]
100. BankSimple Deposits $3.1 Million From First Round, Ron Conway, And Roger Ehrenberg (techcrunch.com) [edit]
101. "Stealth" Advertising Startup AK Networks Raises $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
102. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
103. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
104. techcrunch.com [edit]
105. Behavioral Email Startup Sailthru Raises $1 Million Led By DFJ Gotham (businessinsider.com) [edit]
106. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
107. Ex-Forbes.com CEO Spanfeller Raising $2 Million For Web Publishing Startup (paidcontent.org) [edit]
108. YComb’s Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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110. NYC Startup Fluidinfo Raises $800K From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
111. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
112. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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114. Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
115. TechCrunch [edit]
116. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
117. Investors listed on company site (betaworks.com) [edit]
118. Vook Announces $2.5 Million in Seed Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
119. TechCrunch [edit]
120. WSJ Venture Wire (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
121. TechCrunch [edit]