Lerer Hippeau is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 [5] based in New York [8]. The firm invests in early-stage and growth-stage startups across various sectors [7], operating at the pre-seed through Series C stages [1][2]. It is listed among the top venture capital firms in New York City [1]. The firm's investment strategy focuses on backing founders in early phases of company development [2]. Lerer Hippeau's portfolio includes AI companies such as Scaled Cognition, which develops AI agents; P-1 AI, which focuses on agentic AI for manufacturing; and Symbiotic Security, which works on AI code security [3].
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Alumni
Investments
Air
New York creative operations platform that uses AI to tag, search and organize brand assets.
Augury
New York City-headquartered industrial AI company providing machine health and process health diagnostics plus AI agents for manufacturers.
Conflixis
Brooklyn, New York-based healthcare compliance company using an AI platform to analyze public and internal data and detect conflicts of interest.
K Health
New York City-headquartered AI-enabled healthcare company providing clinical AI infrastructure, PatientGPT and dynamic intake for health systems and 24/7 virtual primary care.
Magic
New York-based company building an AI-powered CRM (Loyalist) that unifies restaurant and hospitality tech stacks to understand and engage guests.
- CMedmo
NYC healthcare technology company cofounded and led by Lucas Takahashi, providing an end-to-end medical imaging workflow for ordering providers covering patient engagement, scheduling, insurance verification and results retrieval across MRI, CT, mammography, ultrasound and X-ray.
MOTHER.tech
Brooklyn, New York-based creative studio using a multi-model AI render pipeline to power modular creative tools, including the one-tap AI generation app Degen.
Splice
Music creation platform offering royalty-free samples, AI-powered sound discovery and AI voice production tools for producers
Symbiotic Security
Brooklyn, New York-based company building a secure code generation agent that adds security guardrails, verification and validation to AI-generated code.
Alumni 1 went on to found or lead
- Will McKelveyAssociate→Co-Founder at Courtyard Ventures
- Emily LibrescoSenior Director, Marketing and Communications→Limited Partner at The Equity Alliance
- Andrea HippeauPrincipal
- Graham BrownSenior Associate
- Isabelle PhelpsSenior Associate
The full Lerer Hippeau mafia →
NYC headquarters
- The company's own site places it in New York: Text explicitly states 'LH among most active NYC investors' and lists the company as based in New York through this self-identification..[8]
AI investing
- Portfolio includes AI companies such as Scaled Cognition (AI agents), P-1 AI (agentic AI for manufacturing) and Symbiotic Security (AI code security)[3]
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