Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund that has backed more than 400 companies since its founding. Lerer Hippeau's Twitter Score is 44 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #24,518 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Lerer Hippeau was co-founded by Ben Lerer, Eric Hippeau, and Ken Lerer, and focuses on pre-seed and seed investments across enterprise and consumer sectors. The fund closed its ninth seed fund at $200 million in 2025, up from the $140 million raised for its eighth fund. In September 2025, the firm also announced it had raised $230 million across two vehicles, LH Seed VIII and LH Select IV. In March 2018, Lerer Hippeau agreed to assume management of Binary Capital's $125 million fund, a move that came after allegations of sexual harassment against Binary Capital co-founder Justin Caldbeck.
Lerer Hippeau's portfolio includes Axios, Casa, Abra, Genies, Wonderschool, Brit Co, Kindred and Fundera By NerdWallet. The fund has backed companies including Blockdaemon, spanning both enterprise and consumer categories. Lerer Hippeau has accumulated 30,150 followers as of July 2026 across 14,290 posts, and has been mentioned by 172 accounts a total of 1,661 times.
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The accounts that follow Lerer Hippeau include 267 founders, 63 angel investors, 42 influencers and 94 VCs, among them Kyle Samani, Tyler Winklevoss, Mario Nawfal, Jake Brukhman, Andrew Chen and Vinny Lingham.