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 Retail

FOXTROT

Series C in 2022
FOXTROT is a food and beverage delivery company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2013 by Mike LaVitola, Brian Jaffee, and Taylor Bloom. The company operates both grocery stores and a mobile app that allows customers to shop for a diverse range of products, including wine, spirits, fresh foods, snacks, and everyday essentials. FOXTROT offers a curated selection of items that can be delivered to customers' doors in under an hour. In addition to its Chicago location, FOXTROT has expanded its presence to Texas, enhancing its reach in the grocery and delivery market.

Loop

Series B in 2021
Loop operates an exchange-first return platform designed to enhance customer loyalty for e-commerce businesses. Its advanced returns and exchanges app integrates seamlessly with Shopify, enabling customers to easily swap products for new variants. The platform automates the return process by placing new orders based on return package movements, ensuring that exchanges or refunds are completed within a few days. This efficiency is achieved through post-purchase insights that help businesses make informed merchandising decisions while reducing return cycles. If preferred, users can also manage refunds and exchanges manually via a user-friendly admin panel. Overall, Loop aims to simplify the returns process, improving customer retention and operational efficiency for online retailers.

FOXTROT

Series B in 2021
FOXTROT is a food and beverage delivery company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2013 by Mike LaVitola, Brian Jaffee, and Taylor Bloom. The company operates both grocery stores and a mobile app that allows customers to shop for a diverse range of products, including wine, spirits, fresh foods, snacks, and everyday essentials. FOXTROT offers a curated selection of items that can be delivered to customers' doors in under an hour. In addition to its Chicago location, FOXTROT has expanded its presence to Texas, enhancing its reach in the grocery and delivery market.

LeafLink

Series C in 2020
LeafLink, Inc. is a business-to-business e-commerce platform designed to facilitate wholesale activities within the cannabis industry. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, LeafLink connects cannabis brands and retailers, providing tools to streamline ordering and improve communication. The platform includes features such as a centralized sales engine, customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities, and order management tools, allowing users to manage their inventory, track orders, and enhance brand visibility effectively. With access available 24/7 across various devices, LeafLink serves over 1,200 brands and 3,500 retailers across 22 territories in the U.S. and Canada. The company also maintains offices in major cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, and Toronto, reinforcing its role as the industry standard for wholesale management in the cannabis sector.

ROOM

Series A in 2020
ROOM is rethinking the modern workplace through affordable, sustainable and flexible solutions that make more room for people at work by designing modular and creative office products that help companies of all sizes build a better work environment. Launched in May 2018 by serial entrepreneurs Brian Chen and Morten Meisner-Jensen, ROOM is backed by Slow Ventures, a leading venture capital firm that was one of the original investors in Casper. Honored by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2018, ROOM is already building the workplace of tomorrow for over 1,500 customers ranging from high-growth start-ups to Fortune 500 companies including Nike, Google, NASA, Salesforce, Uber, Shopify, Wayfair, and more. Learn more about ROOM at www.room.com.

FOXTROT

Series A in 2020
FOXTROT is a food and beverage delivery company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2013 by Mike LaVitola, Brian Jaffee, and Taylor Bloom. The company operates both grocery stores and a mobile app that allows customers to shop for a diverse range of products, including wine, spirits, fresh foods, snacks, and everyday essentials. FOXTROT offers a curated selection of items that can be delivered to customers' doors in under an hour. In addition to its Chicago location, FOXTROT has expanded its presence to Texas, enhancing its reach in the grocery and delivery market.

Loop

Series A in 2019
Loop operates an exchange-first return platform designed to enhance customer loyalty for e-commerce businesses. Its advanced returns and exchanges app integrates seamlessly with Shopify, enabling customers to easily swap products for new variants. The platform automates the return process by placing new orders based on return package movements, ensuring that exchanges or refunds are completed within a few days. This efficiency is achieved through post-purchase insights that help businesses make informed merchandising decisions while reducing return cycles. If preferred, users can also manage refunds and exchanges manually via a user-friendly admin panel. Overall, Loop aims to simplify the returns process, improving customer retention and operational efficiency for online retailers.

Otherland

Seed Round in 2019
Otherland is a direct-to-consumer company that specializes in manufacturing scented candles. Established in 2017 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the brand focuses on creating products that enhance the ambiance of homes through unique fragrances. Otherland retails its candles online via its website, aiming to provide customers with an expressive and immersive sensory experience.

LeafLink

Series B in 2019
LeafLink, Inc. is a business-to-business e-commerce platform designed to facilitate wholesale activities within the cannabis industry. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, LeafLink connects cannabis brands and retailers, providing tools to streamline ordering and improve communication. The platform includes features such as a centralized sales engine, customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities, and order management tools, allowing users to manage their inventory, track orders, and enhance brand visibility effectively. With access available 24/7 across various devices, LeafLink serves over 1,200 brands and 3,500 retailers across 22 territories in the U.S. and Canada. The company also maintains offices in major cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, and Toronto, reinforcing its role as the industry standard for wholesale management in the cannabis sector.

Camp

Series A in 2019
Camp is a retail concept for kids and their parents, offering a rotating selection of toys and other goods alongside experiences like cooking and craft classes. It combines merchandise, play, and media throughout its stores to create an enriching and fun experience for kids and grown-ups. They offer an entirely new experience with each visit, CAMP rotates its theme every 8 -12 weeks.

Uppercase

Seed Round in 2018
Uppercase is a modern retail solutions provider established in 2016 and headquartered in New York City. The company specializes in helping brands launch retail stores through a comprehensive suite of services that includes real estate, store build-outs, analytics, and staffing. Uppercase offers a marketplace for short-term retail space and tech-enabled stores in key locations such as New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver. By integrating various aspects of the retail journey, Uppercase enables brands to effectively measure and enhance their retail presence, ensuring a successful entry into the market. The company serves both brands and real estate partners, focusing on data-driven alternatives to traditional retail real estate.

Rebel

Seed Round in 2018
Rebel, based in Washington, D.C., specializes in in-email checkout products that enhance the shopping experience directly within email communications. Formerly known as Rebelmail, the company rebranded in June 2018 after its incorporation in 2014. Recognizing the significant role of email in online communication and commerce, Rebel aims to innovate this platform, which has remained largely unchanged despite the evolving consumer landscape. As of October 2018, Rebel operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce, focusing on transforming email into a dynamic channel for generating revenue.

FOXTROT

Series A in 2018
FOXTROT is a food and beverage delivery company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2013 by Mike LaVitola, Brian Jaffee, and Taylor Bloom. The company operates both grocery stores and a mobile app that allows customers to shop for a diverse range of products, including wine, spirits, fresh foods, snacks, and everyday essentials. FOXTROT offers a curated selection of items that can be delivered to customers' doors in under an hour. In addition to its Chicago location, FOXTROT has expanded its presence to Texas, enhancing its reach in the grocery and delivery market.

LeafLink

Series A in 2017
LeafLink, Inc. is a business-to-business e-commerce platform designed to facilitate wholesale activities within the cannabis industry. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, LeafLink connects cannabis brands and retailers, providing tools to streamline ordering and improve communication. The platform includes features such as a centralized sales engine, customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities, and order management tools, allowing users to manage their inventory, track orders, and enhance brand visibility effectively. With access available 24/7 across various devices, LeafLink serves over 1,200 brands and 3,500 retailers across 22 territories in the U.S. and Canada. The company also maintains offices in major cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, and Toronto, reinforcing its role as the industry standard for wholesale management in the cannabis sector.

LeafLink

Seed Round in 2017
LeafLink, Inc. is a business-to-business e-commerce platform designed to facilitate wholesale activities within the cannabis industry. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York, LeafLink connects cannabis brands and retailers, providing tools to streamline ordering and improve communication. The platform includes features such as a centralized sales engine, customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities, and order management tools, allowing users to manage their inventory, track orders, and enhance brand visibility effectively. With access available 24/7 across various devices, LeafLink serves over 1,200 brands and 3,500 retailers across 22 territories in the U.S. and Canada. The company also maintains offices in major cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, and Toronto, reinforcing its role as the industry standard for wholesale management in the cannabis sector.

Fresh Nation

Convertible Note in 2017
Fresh Nation is an enterprise-level B2B wholesale marketplace and management platform for the retail grocery industry, operationalizing local and specialty food assortments for the nation’s largest retailers and distributors. Fresh Nation’s proprietary Virtual Supply Chain™ platform simplifies the complexity of working with thousands of small vendors, saving time and cutting costs. Incorporating a vendor and product rich CRM, interactive supplier portal, order management suite, accounting and invoicing tools, and flexible EDI/API integrations, Fresh Nation is becoming the grocery industry standard for enterprise specialty food management.

Inturn

Series A in 2016
INTURN is an enterprise solution providing custom solutions to efficiently convert slow-moving and excess inventory. The company's first vertical focus is specifically built for fashion and apparel brands. This marketplace provides automated tools to replace what is a manual, painstaking, error-prone process. The result is a solution that provides a powerful opportunity to increase profitability. INTURN is designed and led by retail industry veterans and technology experts.

Dia&Co

Seed Round in 2016
Dia&Co sells clothing and accessories to women who wear plus-sized apparel via a try-on-at-home model. Customers take an online survey to explain their tastes and then are shipped a five-item box of clothing and accessories. They buy the pieces they like and ship the rest back for free.Each box comes with a $20 styling fee that can be used as a credit toward a purchase of an item in the box. If a customer buys every item in a box, they receive a 25 percent discount.

Inturn

Seed Round in 2015
INTURN is an enterprise solution providing custom solutions to efficiently convert slow-moving and excess inventory. The company's first vertical focus is specifically built for fashion and apparel brands. This marketplace provides automated tools to replace what is a manual, painstaking, error-prone process. The result is a solution that provides a powerful opportunity to increase profitability. INTURN is designed and led by retail industry veterans and technology experts.

FoxCommerce

Venture Round in 2015
FoxCommerce is an intelligent commerce platform aimed at digitally-native brands looking to enhance their online presence. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, FoxCommerce offers a solution that allows users to build feature-rich, scalable, and efficient eCommerce websites. The platform incorporates advanced tools for pricing, promotion, and personalization, enabling businesses to thrive in a competitive eCommerce landscape. With its API-first architecture, FoxCommerce supports selling across multiple channels and devices from a centralized system. This design maximizes conversion rates and user experience through real-time caching of nearly every system object, making it a robust choice for modern commerce.

Rebel

Seed Round in 2014
Rebel, based in Washington, D.C., specializes in in-email checkout products that enhance the shopping experience directly within email communications. Formerly known as Rebelmail, the company rebranded in June 2018 after its incorporation in 2014. Recognizing the significant role of email in online communication and commerce, Rebel aims to innovate this platform, which has remained largely unchanged despite the evolving consumer landscape. As of October 2018, Rebel operates as a subsidiary of Salesforce, focusing on transforming email into a dynamic channel for generating revenue.

Fresh Nation

Seed Round in 2014
Fresh Nation is an enterprise-level B2B wholesale marketplace and management platform for the retail grocery industry, operationalizing local and specialty food assortments for the nation’s largest retailers and distributors. Fresh Nation’s proprietary Virtual Supply Chain™ platform simplifies the complexity of working with thousands of small vendors, saving time and cutting costs. Incorporating a vendor and product rich CRM, interactive supplier portal, order management suite, accounting and invoicing tools, and flexible EDI/API integrations, Fresh Nation is becoming the grocery industry standard for enterprise specialty food management.

Tulip

Seed Round in 2013
Tulip Retail, Inc. is a developer of a cloud-based mobile platform designed specifically for retail store associates. Founded in 2013 and based in Toronto, Canada, with additional offices in Kitchener, London, Caerano di San Marco, and New York, Tulip aims to enhance the in-store experience by empowering associates with a suite of intuitive mobile applications. The platform offers features such as assisted selling, clienteling, and a comprehensive checkout system, allowing associates to access product and customer information seamlessly. Retailers use Tulip's solutions to provide an enriched omnichannel shopping experience, streamlining operations and communications while elevating customer service. Notable clients include Saks Fifth Avenue, Kate Spade, and Coach, among others.

JOOR

Series B in 2013
JOOR, Inc. operates a global online fashion marketplace that facilitates wholesale buying by connecting brands and retailers through a digital platform. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, JOOR has expanded its presence with offices in major cities such as Los Angeles, London, Milan, Paris, and Sydney. The company serves over 12,500 brands across 53 categories and connects with more than 300,000 retailers in 144 countries, managing a substantial gross merchandise volume of $1.5 billion each month. JOOR's client base includes prominent retailers like Neiman Marcus and Harrods, as well as notable brands such as Tory Burch and Alexander McQueen. Backed by investors including Battery Ventures and Canaan Partners, JOOR is recognized for its innovative approach and diverse workforce, which includes a noteworthy representation of women in leadership and technical roles. The company is committed to transforming wholesale management in the fashion industry.

JOOR

Series A in 2012
JOOR, Inc. operates a global online fashion marketplace that facilitates wholesale buying by connecting brands and retailers through a digital platform. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, JOOR has expanded its presence with offices in major cities such as Los Angeles, London, Milan, Paris, and Sydney. The company serves over 12,500 brands across 53 categories and connects with more than 300,000 retailers in 144 countries, managing a substantial gross merchandise volume of $1.5 billion each month. JOOR's client base includes prominent retailers like Neiman Marcus and Harrods, as well as notable brands such as Tory Burch and Alexander McQueen. Backed by investors including Battery Ventures and Canaan Partners, JOOR is recognized for its innovative approach and diverse workforce, which includes a noteworthy representation of women in leadership and technical roles. The company is committed to transforming wholesale management in the fashion industry.

Group Commerce

Series C in 2012
Group Commerce is a leading e-commerce platform tailored for publishers seeking to enhance their online retail capabilities. Established in 2010, the company provides an enterprise-grade solution that acts as a command center for managing e-commerce programs. It caters to the distinct needs of consumers, publishers, and merchants by offering essential services such as payment processing, customer support, merchant sourcing, and merchandising strategy. Group Commerce's innovative technology is designed to empower brands and media companies, ensuring they have the tools and expertise necessary to succeed in the competitive e-commerce landscape. The company has garnered a diverse clientele, including notable names such as CBS Local, Hearst Publications, and the New York Times, highlighting its reputation and effectiveness in the industry.

Welcome

Seed Round in 2012
Welcome Commerce, Inc. develops a conversation platform that connects brands and retailers with consumers, enhancing the shopping experience through real-time product expertise. Its platform includes various modules such as Welcome Bar, which offers a chat interface for personalized assistance, and Welcome Expert, linking consumers to expert resources. Additionally, Welcome Collaborate aids in customer acquisition by enabling experts to influence purchasing decisions, while Welcome SMS allows for communication via text. The platform integrates across multiple consumer touchpoints, including websites, mobile, and in-store interactions, optimizing the buying experience through Welcome Consumer Intelligence. Founded in 2011 and based in New York, with additional offices in Austin, San Francisco, Chicago, and London, Welcome serves prominent clients like AT&T, Dyson, Google, and Samsung. The company was recognized with multiple awards for its contributions to marketing and brand support solutions. As of November 2018, Welcome operates as a subsidiary of Salsify, Inc.

JOOR

Series A in 2011
JOOR, Inc. operates a global online fashion marketplace that facilitates wholesale buying by connecting brands and retailers through a digital platform. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, JOOR has expanded its presence with offices in major cities such as Los Angeles, London, Milan, Paris, and Sydney. The company serves over 12,500 brands across 53 categories and connects with more than 300,000 retailers in 144 countries, managing a substantial gross merchandise volume of $1.5 billion each month. JOOR's client base includes prominent retailers like Neiman Marcus and Harrods, as well as notable brands such as Tory Burch and Alexander McQueen. Backed by investors including Battery Ventures and Canaan Partners, JOOR is recognized for its innovative approach and diverse workforce, which includes a noteworthy representation of women in leadership and technical roles. The company is committed to transforming wholesale management in the fashion industry.

Group Commerce

Series B in 2011
Group Commerce is a leading e-commerce platform tailored for publishers seeking to enhance their online retail capabilities. Established in 2010, the company provides an enterprise-grade solution that acts as a command center for managing e-commerce programs. It caters to the distinct needs of consumers, publishers, and merchants by offering essential services such as payment processing, customer support, merchant sourcing, and merchandising strategy. Group Commerce's innovative technology is designed to empower brands and media companies, ensuring they have the tools and expertise necessary to succeed in the competitive e-commerce landscape. The company has garnered a diverse clientele, including notable names such as CBS Local, Hearst Publications, and the New York Times, highlighting its reputation and effectiveness in the industry.

Group Commerce

Series A in 2010
Group Commerce is a leading e-commerce platform tailored for publishers seeking to enhance their online retail capabilities. Established in 2010, the company provides an enterprise-grade solution that acts as a command center for managing e-commerce programs. It caters to the distinct needs of consumers, publishers, and merchants by offering essential services such as payment processing, customer support, merchant sourcing, and merchandising strategy. Group Commerce's innovative technology is designed to empower brands and media companies, ensuring they have the tools and expertise necessary to succeed in the competitive e-commerce landscape. The company has garnered a diverse clientele, including notable names such as CBS Local, Hearst Publications, and the New York Times, highlighting its reputation and effectiveness in the industry.
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