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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 — 16 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Other · AI; top portfolio geographies are USA. Lerer Hippeau ranks #63 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

22 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #63 · Global · 22 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 33% 5y
16
Decacorns ↓ 100% 5y
0
Thoroughbreds ↑ 114% 5y
15
01 · Exits

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.

$12.7B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $1.2B
$6.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.0B
$4.9B acquisition · 2023
Entered Seed
$1.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $231M
$1.1B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$1.1B IPO · 2026
Entered SeedNow $1.1B
03 · Portfolio analysis

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.

By countryCount
  1. USA22
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces5
  2. Other3
  3. AI3
  4. Fintech3
  5. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  6. Marketing2
  7. Transportation1
  8. Edtech1
  9. Health Tech & Medtech1
  10. Energy1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+3
  2. Series A3
  3. Seed14
Estimated holdings

Lerer Hippeau’s biggest current 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.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 BlockdaemonEnterprise Software · Unicorn 4% $3.3B $130M
  2. 2 ZenBusinessMarketing · Unicorn 5.5% $1.7B $94M
  3. 3 K HealthEnterprise Software · Unicorn 4% $900M $36M
  4. 4 AuguryEngineering And Manufacturing Equipment · Unicorn 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 →

04 · Portfolio market map

Lerer Hippeau's 22 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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22 of 22 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Lerer Hippeau stack up?

Lerer Hippeau in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 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.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Lerer Hippeau's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

59 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.

LocationCount
United States27
Israel6
United Kingdom3
Sweden3
Iran2
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UniversityCount
University of Texas at Austin9
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania7
Brown University6
Stanford University3
Tel Aviv University2
Warren Alpert Medical School2
Columbia Business School2
Tufts University2
Princeton University2
IDF1
+19 more →
Origin companyCount
Shopify3
Meta3
Hybris2
Vrbo2
Alphabet | Google2
X.2
Lifesum2
Yahoo!2
Apptronik1
Jagex1
+14 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Lerer Hippeau.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

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

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Latest news about Lerer Hippeau

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