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Lerer Hippeau
Venture capital firm · Founded 2010 · Active in 2026
Lerer Hippeau is a venture capital firm based in New York, USA, founded in 2010. The page below shows 22 Power Law outcomes from Lerer Hippeau's portfolio — 17 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech · Other; top portfolio geographies are USA. Lerer Hippeau ranks #63 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Lerer Hippeau’s biggest exits.
Lerer Hippeau portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Lerer Hippeau’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Lerer Hippeau’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 4 companies where Lerer Hippeau is a named shareholder, worth about $280M in estimated equity value.
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1
Blockdaemon
4%
$3.3B
$130M
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2
ZenBusiness
5.5%
$1.7B
$94M
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3
K Health
4%
$900M
$36M
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4
Augury
2%
$1.0B
$20M
Estimated value = Lerer Hippeau’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Lerer Hippeau also appears inside investor groups in Bowery Farming, ClassDojo, Glossier, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 22 Lerer Hippeau Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA22
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eCommerce & Marketplaces6
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Fintech3
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Other3
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Biotech & Life Sciences2
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AI2
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Marketing2
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Edtech1
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Health Tech & Medtech1
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Energy1
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Transportation1
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Series B+3
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Series A4
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Seed14
Lerer Hippeau's 22 Power Law outcomes.
How does Lerer Hippeau stack up?
Lerer Hippeau in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Lerer Hippeau's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
52 founders across the 22 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Texas at Austin and Shopify are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Lerer Hippeau.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Lerer Hippeau
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Lerer Hippeau on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Lerer Hippeau
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