Investing Profile

Ben Lerer(1)

VCInvestor

Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau

lererhippeau.com/team/New York, New York

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Current Investing Position

Lerer Hippeau Managing Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $3.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$130M

Ben Lerer is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Ben Lerer's Investments On Record (29)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Magic	SeedOct 2025$10M	$510M
Co-investors: Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Daniel Gross (Various), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Florian Huber (EWOR), Mike Dauber (Amplify Partners), Dalton Caldwell (Standard Capital), Fredrik Hjelm, DROdio - Daniel R. Odio
Le Walk	SeedAug 2025$4M	$4M
Co-investors: Jessica Verrilli (Adverb Ventures)
Journey	SeedMar 2025$8M	$8M
Co-investors: Eric Hippeau (Lerer Hippeau), Kevin Colleran (Slow Ventures), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Edward Lando (Biowear), Kim Perell (Unknown Ventures), Eric Wu (Resolute Ventures)
Air	Series BJan 2025$35M Series ASep 2020$12M SeedFeb 2019$5M	$62M
Co-investors: Jennifer “Jenny" Fleiss (Initialized Capital), Todd Jackson (First Round Capital), Jett Fein (Broadway Venture Partners), Jared Sleeper (Avenir), Jason Fiedler (Left Lane Capital), Kevin Weil (Council on Foreign Relations), Brian Lee (Lowell Milken Institute of Business Law and Policy), Jack Altman (Lattice Ventures), David Lieb
MOTORMIA	SeedOct 2024$8M	$8M
Co-investors: Alex Oppenheimer (Verissimo Ventures), Nir Adler (State of Mind Ventures)
Lil Snack	SeedApr 2024$3M	$3M
Co-investors: Joshua Lu (Andreessen Horowitz), Daniel Leff (Luminari Capital)
Capitalize	SeedMar 2024$4M	$38M
Co-investors: Raju Rishi (RRE Ventures), Benjamin Ling (Bling Capital), Will Szczerbiak (Greycroft), Jeffrey Reitman (Canapi Ventures), Hari Lakshmanan
TollBit	SeedMar 2024$7M	$31M
Co-investors: Faraz Fatemi (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), Liu Jiang (Pre-Seed Through Pre-Ipo), Michael Mignano (Spotify), Manuel Bronstein (500 Startups Korea)

Ben Lerer's Experience

Chairman Of The Board Urban UpboundPresent

Board Member CasperPresent

Board Member Raised By UsPresent

Board Member RaisedBy.UsPresent

Director Vox MediaPresent

Leadership Council Robin HoodPresent

CEO and Founder ThrillistPresent

Managing Partner Lerer HippeauPresent

Chief Executive Officer Group Nine MediaPresent

Chief Executive Officer Group Nine Acquisition CorpPresent

Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau Vox MediaPresent

Founder Equity AlliancePresent

Ben Lerer's Education

University of Pennsylvania BS Political Science

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