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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, BankSimple, gdgt, GroupMe, Greplin, and Venmo.

Milestones

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  Lerer Ventures invested in Ridejoy. (1/25/12)
  Posted 2/6/12 at 4:59am via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Everlane. (4/1/11)
  Posted 1/26/12 at 2:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in PandoDaily. (1/16/12)
  Posted 1/16/12 at 10:52am via gigaom.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in BuzzFeed. (1/9/12)
  Posted 1/9/12 at 5:08am via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in ifttt. (1/1/12)
  Posted 1/4/12 at 7:20pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in RJMetrics. (1/3/12)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 7:58pm via businessinsider.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Tutorspree. (12/20/11)
  Posted 12/20/11 at 6:27pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in BestVendor. (12/19/11)
  Posted 12/19/11 at 6:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Science Exchange. (12/2/11)
  Posted 12/18/11 at 12:29pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Percolate. (12/15/11)
  Posted 12/16/11 at 3:24am via businessinsider.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Percolate. (12/15/11)
  Posted 12/15/11 at 4:17pm via betabeat.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in NewsCred. (11/30/11)
  Posted 11/30/11 at 4:52pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in BirchBox. (8/17/11)
  Posted 11/21/11 at 10:14am via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Dispatch. (11/10/11)
  Posted 11/10/11 at 7:21pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Hyperink. (10/27/11)
  Posted 10/27/11 at 8:05pm via businessinsider.com
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  Lerer Ventures invested in Warby Parker. (9/22/11)
  Posted 9/22/11 at 9:10pm via wsj.com

Investments

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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. 4Chan’s Moot Joins Lerer Ventures As An Advisor (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Social Ridesharing Startup Ridejoy Raises $1.3M From Freestyle Capital, Lerer Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Sarah Lacy’s PandoDaily launches with $2.5 million in funding (gigaom.com) [edit]
6. Viral Aggregator BuzzFeed Raises $15.5M To Transform The Way People Get Their News (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. After Three Years Of Bootstrapping, RJMetrics Raises $1.2 Million From Fab's CEO And SoftTech (businessinsider.com) [edit]
8. IFTTT, A Glue Gun For Sticking The Web Together, Raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Tutorspree Raises $1 Million Round Led By Sequoia Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. BestVendor Raises $3M For Work App Recommendation Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Percolate Raises $1.5 Million From Dave Morin And First Round Capital To Turn Brands Into Tumblrs (businessinsider.com) [edit]
12. Percolate Raises $1.5 M. and Turns Away from Consumers to Helping Brands Curate Content (betabeat.com) [edit]
13. Science Exchange’s Marketplace For Research Facilities Gets A $1.5 Million Boost (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Third Time’s The Charm? A New NewsCred Raises $4 Million To Reinvent The Newswire Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Dispatch Raises $965K To Manage All Of Your Cloud Files From One Place (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Y Combinator Startup Hyperink Raises $1.2 Million To Launch A Skillshare For Books (businessinsider.com) [edit]
17. Stylish Eyewear Maker Warby Parker Tries On $12M In Funding (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
18. Smart Email Provider Sailthru Raises $8 Million Round Led By RRE Ventures (businessinsider.com) [edit]
19. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Accel Leads $10.5M Round In Cosmetics Discovery Platform Birchbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Tablet Education Startup ShowMe Raises $800,000 From Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, And Betaworks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. Visual Revenue Secures $512K (finsmes.com) [edit]
23. JOOR Raises $2.25 Million For Private Online Fashion Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Google AdSense Founder Raises Cash From Lerer Ventures And Others For Stealth Startup Scopely (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. TheStreet (thestreet.com) [edit]
26. MongoHQ Raises $417K From Y Combinator, Lerer And SV Angel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. Peter Thiel, Lerer Ventures And Others Put $600K In BestVendor (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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29. Pulse Raises $9 Million in Series A Financing from NEA, Greycroft Partners and Lerer Ventures (reuters.com) [edit]
30. Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe’s $5M ‘Series Awesome’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Union Square Ventures Leads $3M Round In 4chan Founder Moot’s New Startup Canvas (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. DFJ Leads $6 Million Round For Social Job Board Jibe (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Local Q&A Site Hipster Raises $1M From Google Ventures, Lightbank, 500 Startups And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Adaptly Raises $2.7 Million To Facilitate Cross Platform Social Ad Buys (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel Back Personalized, Designer Quality E-Commerce Platform Everlane (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. Social Game Developer A Bit Lucky Scores $5M From Nexon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Popdust Raises New Round of Financing Led by Lerer Media Ventures (pressitt.com) [edit]
38. GraphEffect Raises $2 Million To Increase Brand “Likes” On Facebook (techcrunch.com) [edit]
39. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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41. AxialMarket Closes $2M Financing Round (axialmarket.com) [edit]
42. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. Makeup Discovery Service BirchBox Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. SeatGeek Secures A Deal With The Wall Street Journal And $550k In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. “Stealth” Advertising Startup AK Networks Raises $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. TechCrunch [edit]
47. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. BankSimple Deposits $3.1 Million From First Round, Ron Conway, And Roger Ehrenberg (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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51. Behavioral Email Startup Sailthru Raises $1 Million Led By DFJ Gotham (businessinsider.com) [edit]
52. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. Ex-Forbes.com CEO Spanfeller Raising $2 Million For Web Publishing Startup (paidcontent.org) [edit]
54. YComb’s Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. NYC Startup Fluidinfo Raises $800K From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
56. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
57. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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59. Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
60. TechCrunch [edit]
61. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
62. Investors listed on company site (betaworks.com) [edit]
63. Vook Announces $2.5 Million in Seed Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
64. TechCrunch [edit]
65. WSJ Venture Wire (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
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