Lerer Hippeau

Lerer Hippeau, founded in 2010 by Ken Lerer, Ben Lerer, and Eric Hippeau, is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm is known for being one of the most active venture capital funds in the region, with a portfolio that includes over 250 companies in various sectors, particularly in consumer and enterprise markets. Lerer Hippeau focuses on seed to later-stage investments and has backed notable companies such as Allbirds, Bowery Farming, K Health, and Zipline. The firm aims to partner with founders who demonstrate strong product vision and customer insight, emphasizing the importance of brand building. Additionally, Lerer Hippeau has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider to promote inclusivity within its investment practices.

Graham Brown

Managing Partner

Stephanie Manning Cohen

Operating Partner

Sharlene Guiriba

Associate

Andrea Hippeau

Partner

Eric Hippeau

Managing Partner

Suraj Kapoor

Director

Ken Lerer

Managing Partner

Benjamin Lerer

Managing Partner

Ben Lerer

Managing Partner

Robert Li

Associate

Will McKelvey

Investor

Joe Medved

Partner, LH Strategy

Isabelle Phelps

Partner

Maurice Russo

Investor

Caitlin Strandberg

Partner

Max Wechter

Director of Strategy

James Wellemeyer

Investor

Mendy Yang

Associate

Past deals in Design

Hello Cake

Series A in 2022
Hello Cake offers tailor-made products for the bedroom, inspired by real couples, and designed for specific types of play. Each product is made from the highest quality ingredients, produced with love in California, and delivered directly to doorsteps across the U.S. We hope everything we make will help our customers feel good, connect to their partner(s), and have fun.

Danvas

Seed Round in 2021
Danvas is advancing screens that will possess a fully dimensional interactive design that brings NFT art to life and will reinforce the authentic ownership of the artwork. Its premium, luxury digital art canvas aims to accelerate the world’s appreciation of digital artists and their artwork, and introduce art collectors to the value, and possibilities of the next wave of digital art.

Block Renovation

Series C in 2021
Block Renovation is a home renovation platform that integrates design, construction labor, and materials to create a seamless renovation experience for homeowners and contractors. Founded by Koda Wang and Luke Sherwin, the company aims to simplify the often complex and confusing process of home renovations. By bringing design, sourcing, and project management together, Block Renovation provides homeowners with clarity on outcomes, quality, pricing, and timelines. This approach not only enhances the experience for homeowners looking to improve their living spaces but also offers a more efficient working method for contractors.

Realm

Series A in 2021
Beautiful design, affordable, and fast installation, Realm is your full and continuing ADU service. Contact: www.seerealm.com/contact-us

Block Renovation

Series B in 2021
Block Renovation is a home renovation platform that integrates design, construction labor, and materials to create a seamless renovation experience for homeowners and contractors. Founded by Koda Wang and Luke Sherwin, the company aims to simplify the often complex and confusing process of home renovations. By bringing design, sourcing, and project management together, Block Renovation provides homeowners with clarity on outcomes, quality, pricing, and timelines. This approach not only enhances the experience for homeowners looking to improve their living spaces but also offers a more efficient working method for contractors.

Hello Cake

Seed Round in 2021
Hello Cake offers tailor-made products for the bedroom, inspired by real couples, and designed for specific types of play. Each product is made from the highest quality ingredients, produced with love in California, and delivered directly to doorsteps across the U.S. We hope everything we make will help our customers feel good, connect to their partner(s), and have fun.

Realm

Seed Round in 2021
Beautiful design, affordable, and fast installation, Realm is your full and continuing ADU service. Contact: www.seerealm.com/contact-us

Havenly

Series C in 2019
Havenly, Inc. specializes in providing online interior design services that cater to a diverse range of budgets. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with an additional location in Boston, Massachusetts, Havenly connects users with professional interior designers who create personalized designs based on individual style and space. Clients complete online style surveys and can upload photos of their spaces for consultation. Following the design process, users can purchase furniture and decorative items directly through Havenly's platform, which features a wide selection from numerous retailers at competitive prices. The company is recognized as a leading player in the online interior design market, working with a large network of vetted designers across the United States.

Cocoon

Seed Round in 2019
They work from a small studio space in the Mission District in San Francisco. Their office overlooks a serene garden courtyard that overflows into their space and changes throughout the seasons. Since they're constantly thinking about how to design amazing digital spaces for small groups, they take a lot of pride in their small physical space, too!

Block Renovation

Series A in 2019
Block Renovation is a home renovation platform that integrates design, construction labor, and materials to create a seamless renovation experience for homeowners and contractors. Founded by Koda Wang and Luke Sherwin, the company aims to simplify the often complex and confusing process of home renovations. By bringing design, sourcing, and project management together, Block Renovation provides homeowners with clarity on outcomes, quality, pricing, and timelines. This approach not only enhances the experience for homeowners looking to improve their living spaces but also offers a more efficient working method for contractors.

Block Renovation

Seed Round in 2018
Block Renovation is a home renovation platform that integrates design, construction labor, and materials to create a seamless renovation experience for homeowners and contractors. Founded by Koda Wang and Luke Sherwin, the company aims to simplify the often complex and confusing process of home renovations. By bringing design, sourcing, and project management together, Block Renovation provides homeowners with clarity on outcomes, quality, pricing, and timelines. This approach not only enhances the experience for homeowners looking to improve their living spaces but also offers a more efficient working method for contractors.

The Inside

Seed Round in 2018
The Inside is a home furnishings brand that unlocks your shortcut to a chic home, for every style and budget. We believe in the joy of decorating, and that creating the home of your dreams — and having a great time doing it — should be an accessible experience to everyone, not just a few. Our mission is to make furniture fun, with access to more design for more value. With a revolutionary and sustainable supply chain fueled by digital printing and made-to-order manufacturing, The Inside celebrates a wide range of colors, textures, and patterns — offering custom furniture for a cookie cutter price.

Dering Hall

Series A in 2015
Dering Hall is an online marketplace for the finest interior designers, architects, artisans, and design galleries to showcase their work and sell new, high-end home furnishings and accessories. At Dering Hall we are passionate about design and broadening the audience for the best the industry has to offer. Our ongoing mission is to assemble a community of the world’s leading creators in one place and to connect them with other designers and savvy, sophisticated consumers. We provide our roster of top talent with permanent storefronts, where they present a curated assortment of products to highly engaged shoppers. These customers, in turn, gain access to unique pieces previously available only to select designer clients. It’s an entirely new approach to furnishing a home—and one that makes hunting for that perfect bespoke sideboard a dynamic and enjoyable experience. Buyers can effortlessly browse Dering Hall’s storefronts, search product listings, or keep up to date on favorite designers with our innovative "Follow" function. We also offer special Featured Sales as well as a range of compelling and inspiring design content. Welcome to Dering Hall, from the best designers in the world!

makr

Seed Round in 2013
Makr is a design app for next-generation makers: the creative entrepreneur, the DIYer, the next-level home entertainer. Headquartered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, we’re inspired every day by our local maker community. We developed Makr specifically for iPad to bring DIY to the 21st century, using digital tech to enrich the handmade movement and our shared love of old-fashioned craft. Makr provides sophisticated design tools – exclusive to professional studio use until now – to the local maker’s workshop and DIYer’s home.

Dering Hall

Seed Round in 2013
Dering Hall is an online marketplace for the finest interior designers, architects, artisans, and design galleries to showcase their work and sell new, high-end home furnishings and accessories. At Dering Hall we are passionate about design and broadening the audience for the best the industry has to offer. Our ongoing mission is to assemble a community of the world’s leading creators in one place and to connect them with other designers and savvy, sophisticated consumers. We provide our roster of top talent with permanent storefronts, where they present a curated assortment of products to highly engaged shoppers. These customers, in turn, gain access to unique pieces previously available only to select designer clients. It’s an entirely new approach to furnishing a home—and one that makes hunting for that perfect bespoke sideboard a dynamic and enjoyable experience. Buyers can effortlessly browse Dering Hall’s storefronts, search product listings, or keep up to date on favorite designers with our innovative "Follow" function. We also offer special Featured Sales as well as a range of compelling and inspiring design content. Welcome to Dering Hall, from the best designers in the world!

Sunglass

Seed Round in 2012
Sunglass.io uses the web to enable designers to collaboratively build tomorrow's products, buildings and cities.
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