Lerer Ventures

Lerer Ventures is a New York-based, seed stage venture capital fund run by Ken and Ben Lerer. LV invests in founders in the earliest stages of a startup's life, seeking out those entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and unwavering ambition. Its portfolio includes betaworks, chartbeat, Canvas Networks, BankSimple, gdgt, GroupMe, Greplin, and Venmo. Kenneth Lerer is an American businessman and media executive. He is the chairman of The Huffington Post, which he co-founded in 2005 with Arianna Huffington. He is a past Executive Vice President of AOL Time Warner and was a founding partner of New York based corporate communications firm Robinson, Lerer, and Montgomery.