Lerer Hippeau Ventures
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| Type of business | Private |
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| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
| Founder(s) | Kenneth Lerer |
| Key people | Kenneth Lerer, Managing Partner Ben Lerer, Managing Partner Eric Hippeau, Managing Partner |
| Website | lererhippeau |
Lerer Hippeau Ventures (LHV) is a seed stage venture capital fund based in New York City. The firm invests heavily in early-stage companies and has historically focused largely on startups in the New York metro region. In 2014, 70% of the HPL portfolio was New York based companies.
In 2010, father and son entrepreurs Ken (co-fonder of the Huffington Post) and Ben Lerer (Founder of Thrillist) began a VC firm Lerer Ventures.Eric Hippeau joied the firm in 2011 and became a new partner, upon which time the fund name changed to Lerer Hippeau Ventures.
In 2010, 4Chan founder, Christopher Poole, a.k.a. Moot, became an advisor to Lerer Ventures .
Among LHV’s notable early-stage investments are:
In 2016 in collaboration with NBC/Comcast, LVH led a first funding round for a still-unnamed new venture by the co-founder of Politico Jim VandeHei. Mike Allen "will join the company after his run at Politico ends following November’s" Federal and other elections and the new publication is planned for launch in 2017.
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