Lerer Hippeau

Lerer Hippeau, established in 2010, is a prominent New York-based venture capital firm. It specializes in seed-stage investments, focusing on entrepreneurs with innovative ideas across various sectors, including consumer, enterprise, and technology. With over 250 active portfolio companies, notable investments include Allbirds, Bowery Farming, Guideline, K Health, and Zipline. The firm is known for its hands-on approach, supporting founders with product vision, customer insight, and brand-building expertise. Lerer Hippeau has also adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider, demonstrating its commitment to diversity and inclusion in its investment practices.

Stephanie Manning Cohen

Operating Partner

Sharlene Guiriba

Associate

Andrea Hippeau

Partner

Benjamin Lerer

Managing Partner

Will McKelvey

Investor

Isabelle Phelps

Partner

Daniel Rochkind

CFO

Maurice Russo

Investor

Max Wechter

Director of Strategy

James Wellemeyer

Investor

Past deals in macOS

Memoir

Series A in 2014
Memoir transforms your photos, the places you go, and your social media into memories that can be relived when they’re most interesting to you. As soon as you request them, the photos your friends choose to share with you become part of your Memoir seamlessly. You can find memories and photos by people, places, dates, context, and more - no tagging or organization required. Memoir discovers photos and memories wherever they were created - iPhone cameras, DSLR's, Instagram, Facebook, Foursquare - even on your computer. With Memoir, all of your photos and memories are backed up securely to the cloud.

Realm

Seed Round in 2011
Realm ApS is a mobile database company that provides a robust alternative to SQLite and Core Data, facilitating faster application development for users on Android, iOS, and OSX platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an additional office in San Francisco, Realm specializes in offering a memory-efficient database that includes features like querying, relationships, graphs, and thread safety. This innovative platform significantly reduces the amount of code developers need to write, effectively saving them time and enabling the creation of enhanced user experiences. As of May 2019, Realm operates as a subsidiary of MongoDB, Inc.

Memoir

Seed Round in 2011
Memoir transforms your photos, the places you go, and your social media into memories that can be relived when they’re most interesting to you. As soon as you request them, the photos your friends choose to share with you become part of your Memoir seamlessly. You can find memories and photos by people, places, dates, context, and more - no tagging or organization required. Memoir discovers photos and memories wherever they were created - iPhone cameras, DSLR's, Instagram, Facebook, Foursquare - even on your computer. With Memoir, all of your photos and memories are backed up securely to the cloud.
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