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Lerer Ventures and SV Angel Go Way Back, Says David Lee
image via bloomberg While Lerer Ventures is not yet two years old, its new partner, Eric Hippeau, has been close to Silicon Valley super-angel Ron Conway for more than two decades. So it was a natural...
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The End of IPO and The Startup Cash Crunch
Mike Maples of Floodgate At the Bloomberg Empowered Entrepreneur conference, talk of seed stage slaughter was in the air. "A lot of seed stage startups are going to die," said Jeff Clavier. "An...
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HuffPo Cofounder Ken Lerer Launches Stealthy Online Video News Startup for...
Mr. Lerer (via lererventures.com) Huffington Post cofounder Ken Lerer is apparently at work on a stealthy startup aimed to "attract a generation of Web natives who watch Jon Stewart but not CNN or Fox...
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HuffPo Cofounder Ken Lerer’s Stealth Video Startup, Planet Daily, Raises $5 M.
Mr. Lerer (lererventures.com) Planet Daily, the new video startup announced a few weeks ago by ex-HuffPo execs Ken Lerer and Eric Hippeau, has raised $5 million from undisclosed investors, according to...
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Lerer Ventures Is Raising $30 M. for Its Third Seed-Stage VC Fund in Two Years
Jordan Cooper, left, and Ben Lerer (Photo: via The Pitch) Roughly a year-and-a-half after closing its second $25 million seed stage fund, Lerer Ventures is in the processing of raising money for a...
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Newsweek Daily Beast CEO Departs for Lerer Ventures
Formerly of. (Photo: FontShop Newsweek Daily Beast CEO Stephen Colvin has decamped from his publishing bastion to take a gig as executive-in-residence at Lerer Ventures. As VC titles go it's one of the...
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Q&A with Eric Hippeau: Lerer Ventures’ New $36 M. Fund and the ‘Golden Age’...
Mr. Hippeau (Photo: Twitter) Earlier today, Lerer Ventures revealed that the early stage investment firm--a powerful, active force in growing New York's startup ecosystem--has raised its biggest fund...
View ArticleNowThis News Goes Retro, Narrates the Election With Twitter ASCII Art
NowThis News, the recently launched video news site created by ex-HuffPo founders Eric Hippeau and Ken Lerer, opted for an old-fashioned approach to deliver election results on a new-fangled platform....
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Eric Hippeau on Lerer Ventures’ New Hires and Why BuzzFeed Promises ‘VC-Like...
Mr. Hippeau. (Photo: David Yellen via Ad Age) When we last spoke with Eric Hippeau, the Huffington Post mafioso was discussing Lerer Ventures' new $36 million fund. Today, the early-stage investment...
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Lerer Ventures Will Seed Dozens of NYC Startups With New $62M Fund
Eric Hippeau, partner at LHV. (Photo via Pivot) Every day, we hear more from investors and founders about the growth of the New York startup ecosystem — hell, it seems like there's a new Demo Day every...
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