Investing Profile

Lee Hower

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Co-Founder & Partner at NextView Ventures

nextview.vcBoston, Massachusetts

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Current Investing Position

NextView Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$250K - $3.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.6M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$50M

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Lee Hower's Investments On Record (25)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Fuse	Series AMar 2026$25M Series AApr 2025$15M SeedJul 2022$6M	$85M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Emily Man (Primary Venture Partners), Jason Shuman (Primary Venture Partners), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Tellef Thorleifsson (Northzone), Sky Dayton (Craft Ventures), Adrian Aoun (500 Startups Korea), Tom Blomfield
Forum	SeedNov 2023$5M	$5.5M
Co-investors: Jared Friedman (Y Combinator), Sahil Bloom (SRB Ventures), Shaan Puri (The Milk Road)
Lula	Series BAug 2023$36M	$85M
Co-investors: Stephen Pagliuca (Bain Capital), Delian Asparouhov (Founders Fund), Thomas Bigagli (Plug & Play Ventures), Marc Baghadjian (Bain Capital Ventures (BCV)), Aaron Ru (Prosus Ventures), Angus Davis (Alianza Capital), Alireza Masrour (Plug and Play Tech Center), Bill Ackman
Datapeople	Series AJun 2023$13M Series UnknownAug 2020$5M	$21M
Co-investors: Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), Robb Doub (Moving Capital), David Resnekov (‎GreatPoint Ventures)
SERV	Pre SeedApr 2023$800K	$800K
Red Leader	Series AMay 2022$10M SeedApr 2020$3M	$13M
Co-investors: Jeff Schox (Schox Venture Capital)
Waivr	Pre SeedApr 2022$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Amy Cheetham (Summit Partners), James Murphy (Forum Ventures), Andrea Funsten (RTP Global), Maia Bittner (Parcel B)
Navier	SeedFeb 2022$7M	$7.1M
Co-investors: Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Yida Gao (Shima Capital), Tim Shi (Sequoia Capital), Michael Ma (Liquid 2 Ventures), Stephen Cole (Trammell Venture Partners), Leonardo Banchik (Voyager Ventures), Kyle Tibbitts (Paradox Capital), Sheila Gulati (Tola Capital), Aneel Ranadive (Soma Capital), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Daniel Gulati (Comcast Ventures), Evan Tana (122 WEST VENTURES), Stephen Cole, Charlie Songhurst

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