# Addie Lerner > Addie Lerner is a Series B investor at Avid Ventures (New York) backing FinTech and SaaS. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [Avid Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avid-ventures) - Location: New York, United States - Total investments: 12 - Last investment: Jul 2024 - Lead investor: 25% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/addie-lerner-914a3238/ - X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/addielerner?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor - Website: https://www.avidventures.com Addie Lerner is a Series B investor at Avid Ventures in New York focused on FinTech and SaaS. Addie Lerner is the Founder and Managing Partner of Avid Ventures. She attended Princeton University. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | FinTech | 4 | 33% | | SaaS | 3 | 25% | | Payments | 2 | 17% | | Compliance | 2 | 17% | | Human Resources | 2 | 17% | 19 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Series B | 5 | 42% | | Series A | 2 | 17% | | Seed | 1 | 8% | | Series C | 1 | 8% | | Funding Round | 1 | 8% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 4 | 33% | | United Kingdom | 1 | 8% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Coast | Coast is a developer of a card payment platform designed to make fleet and gasoline payments easier for truck drivers. The company's platform provides payment integration solutions to fleets, making fleet administration easier than traditional financial services. | $40M | Series B | Jul 18, 2024 | | | MAJORITY | MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas. | $29M | Series B | May 22, 2024 | | | Coast | Coast is a developer of a card payment platform designed to make fleet and gasoline payments easier for truck drivers. The company's platform provides payment integration solutions to fleets, making fleet administration easier than traditional financial services. | $25M | | Mar 21, 2024 | | | Coast | Coast is a developer of a card payment platform designed to make fleet and gasoline payments easier for truck drivers. The company's platform provides payment integration solutions to fleets, making fleet administration easier than traditional financial services. | $25M | Series A | Mar 21, 2024 | | | Alloy | Alloy is a developer of an identity verification platform used to check frauds and make identity management effective and simple for banks and financial institutions. Alloy is an API for regulated companies to collect and manage customer data from many different sources. It also engages in helping financial institutions and FinTech companies solveidentity and compliance problems. The service allows banks and FinTechs to make better risk and identify decisions, using a single API and dashboard to manage AML, fraud, KYC, and more.The company also offers an API to help financial services companies access various aggregated identity databases and a dashboard through which to organize and analyze customer onboarding data. It also helps to improve customer conversion through the compliance funnel, reduce risk and fraud, and speed up previously manual back-office processes.Alloy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York. | $52M | Series C | Sep 01, 2022 | | | Coast | Coast is a developer of a card payment platform designed to make fleet and gasoline payments easier for truck drivers. The company's platform provides payment integration solutions to fleets, making fleet administration easier than traditional financial services. | $27.5M | Series A | Feb 17, 2022 | | | MAJORITY | MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas. | $27M | Series A | Dec 07, 2021 | | | Pento | Pento makes payroll painless, empowering HR & Finance teams by streamlining automation, calculation, payments, compliance & reporting. Pento provides a SaaS-based online platform that optimizes payroll services, enabling companies of all sizes to process pay with ease - but without a lot of time! Pento automates salary processing, taxes andis fully connected to HMRC, as well as offering a range of HRIS & accounting/ERP integrations, to make managing compensation and benefits a breeze.Active in the UK since 2020, Pento is remote-first, with a nominal HQ in London, United Kingdom. | $35M | Series B | Dec 07, 2021 | | | Alloy | Alloy is a developer of an identity verification platform used to check frauds and make identity management effective and simple for banks and financial institutions. Alloy is an API for regulated companies to collect and manage customer data from many different sources. It also engages in helping financial institutions and FinTech companies solveidentity and compliance problems. The service allows banks and FinTechs to make better risk and identify decisions, using a single API and dashboard to manage AML, fraud, KYC, and more.The company also offers an API to help financial services companies access various aggregated identity databases and a dashboard through which to organize and analyze customer onboarding data. It also helps to improve customer conversion through the compliance funnel, reduce risk and fraud, and speed up previously manual back-office processes.Alloy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York. | $100M | Series C | Sep 30, 2021 | | | Coast | Coast is a developer of a card payment platform designed to make fleet and gasoline payments easier for truck drivers. The company's platform provides payment integration solutions to fleets, making fleet administration easier than traditional financial services. | $6M | Seed | Jul 06, 2021 | | 10 of 12 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Eniac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eniac-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together - [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together - [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [Better Tomorrow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-tomorrow-ventures-bebf) — VC Fund, 4 deals together - [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 4 deals together ## About Avid Ventures VC Fund · New York, United States Avid Ventures backs exceptional founders building transformative fintech, consumer internet, and software companies. 2 contacts available at Avid Ventures. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Addie Lerner | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/addie-lerer | | Tali Vogelstein | Founding Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tali-vogelstein | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund - [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Addie Lerner invest in? Addie Lerner invests primarily in FinTech, SaaS and Payments startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### When did Addie Lerner last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Addie Lerner closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly. ### Is Shizune's investor data accurate? Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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