Lerer Hippeau

Lerer Hippeau is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in New York City, founded in 2010. It invests early in a wide range of sectors and provides hands-on support to founders as they build companies, drawing on operating experience. The firm has backed a broad portfolio across consumer and enterprise startups, including Allbirds, Guideline, MIRROR, K Health, ZenBusiness, Thrive, and Blockdaemon.

Graham Brown

Partner

Stephanie Cohen

Operating Partner

Sharlene Guiriba

Associate

Andrea Hippeau

Partner

Eric Hippeau

Managing Partner

Suraj Kapoor

Director

Benjamin Lerer

Managing Partner

Will McKelvey

Investor

Joe Medved

Partner

Isabelle Phelps

Partner

Daniel Rochkind

CFO

Maurice Russo

Investor

Caitlin Strandberg

Partner

Max Wechter

Director of Strategy

James Wellemeyer

Investor

Mendy Yang

Associate

Past deals in Weather

Urban Sky

Series B in 2025
Urban Sky develops reusable micro-satellites equipped with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market. By leveraging advances in component miniaturization and operating from the stratosphere, Urban Sky reduces costs for high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture.

Urban Sky

Series A in 2023
Urban Sky develops reusable micro-satellites equipped with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market. By leveraging advances in component miniaturization and operating from the stratosphere, Urban Sky reduces costs for high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture.

Poncho

Seed Round in 2016
Poncho Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in providing personalized weather forecasts through its application, emails, and text messages across the continental United States. Founded in 2014, Poncho has developed a popular chatbot on Facebook Messenger and ranks among the leading weather apps in the App Store. The company not only delivers weather updates but also offers travel reports, enhancing the user experience with engaging content. As of May 2018, Poncho operates as a subsidiary of Dirty Lemon Beverages, LLC, leveraging advanced bot technologies to reach its audience on various messaging and hardware platforms.
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