Higher Ground Labs

Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund headquartered in New York. Lerer Hippeau was founded by Ken and Ben Lerrer, co-founders of the Huffington Post and Thrillist respectively, and the majority of our team consists of fellow startup founders and operators. We look to invest in entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and unwavering ambition. Historically, we have invested primarily in early-stage companies based in New York (although we are not limited to NY), and almost exclusively headquartered in the United States.

Boston Seed Capital is a venture firm investing at pre-seed and seed in technology companies across consumer, B2B SaaS, and infrastructure.

BoxGroup invests from pre-seed through Series A, reserves capital for follow-ons, and states investments of up to $1 million.

Playground Global is a venture firm investing in early-stage deep-tech startups focused on AI, engineered biology, next-generation computing and hard science.

Foundry Group is a Colorado-based venture firm that invests in early-stage and growth-stage companies headquartered in the US and Canada. Foundry Group also invests in select, newly-formed venture capital fund managers. Foundry Group formed in 2007 and originally focused on Seed and Series A investments. It raised a growth-stage fund in 2014 (Foundry Group Next), and a fund dedicated to investing in other venture funds (Foundry Group Next) in 2016. Regardless of the size of our initial investment, the size and structure of our funds allow us to continue to fund portfolio companies through their entire financing lifecycles. In addition, our venture capital fund investments give us insight and access to a large number of venture-backed companies at varying stages while extending the reach of our overall network. In addition to providing capital, we leverage our experience in starting and growing companies, our expertise in the technology industry, and our network of relationships to help outstanding entrepreneurs and venture capital fund managers turn great ideas into great companies.

8VC is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. 8VC's mantra is: 'the world is broken: let's fix it', and this defines our investment mantra. We look to invest in software, biotechnology, hardware, and other technology-enabled startups. We have raised separate seed stage, early-stage, co-invest and follow-on funds. 8VC was founded in 2015 by Joe Londsdale, Alex Kolicich, Jake Medwell, and Drew Oetting. We are based in San Francisco and invest throughout North America.