Dave Leyrer
Mentor @ Amplify.LA
Los Angeles, United States
Dave Leyrer is a seed investor at Amplify.LA in Los Angeles focused on Food and Beverage and Artificial Intelligence. Dave Leyrer is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of 3L Capital and a Venture Partner of FirstMark Capital. He is also the Co-Founder of The Safe + Fair Food Company. Prior to that, Dave was the Co-Founder and Principal of Nexus Group. Mr. Leyrer attended Lafayette College.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Dave Leyrer invests in
Stages Dave Leyrer invests in
Countries Dave Leyrer invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 2 (25%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (25%)
- SMS 1 (13%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
- Sales 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (25%)
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Series B 2 (25%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
- Series D 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Crisp
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Crisp leverages the power of the cloud to connect and analyze disparate retail data sources, providing the supply chain with real-time insights and trends. Food suppliers, retailers, distributors and brokers use Crisp's open-data platform to manage supply more efficiently, reduce waste and skyrocket profitability. | $35M / Series B / Feb 02, 2022 | |
Relativity Space
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Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets. a vertically integrated technology platform, Relativity is at the forefront of an inevitable shift toward software-defined manufacturing by fusing 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous robotics. It offers a radically simplified supplychain, building a rocket with 100x fewer parts in less than 60 days. Relativity Space is backed by leading investors including Bond, Tribe Capital, Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, and Mark Cuban. | $500M / Series D / Nov 17, 2020 | |
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Relativity Space
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Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets. a vertically integrated technology platform, Relativity is at the forefront of an inevitable shift toward software-defined manufacturing by fusing 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous robotics. It offers a radically simplified supplychain, building a rocket with 100x fewer parts in less than 60 days. Relativity Space is backed by leading investors including Bond, Tribe Capital, Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, and Mark Cuban. | $140M / Series C / Oct 01, 2019 | |
SnackNation
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SnackNation is a healthy snack delivery service for offices that makes healthy snacking fun, life more productive, and workplaces awesome... and now, your home!SnackNation provides a monthly curated selection of healthy snacks from the hottest and most innovative natural CPG brands in the industry, taking the hassle and legwork out of theequation and delivering joy to your office.For every box shipped, SnackNation donates 10 meals to a family in need through our partnership with Feeding America. We donated over one million meals in 2016, and are on pace to donate over two million meals in 2017. For information about career opportunities and to view our culture video visit www.snacknation.com/careers | $12M / Series B / May 30, 2018 | |
Kwippit
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Kwippit is the image-amplified messaging app. Kwippit creates an epic messaging experience fueled by a gallery of kick-ass images (Kwippits) that amplify self-expression beyond what simple words can convey. Today's messaging options lack any meaningful form of self-expression beyond words -- and emojis are just lame. Kwippit wildly amplifiesself-expression via messaging, while allowing users to avoid "emoji shame." | $2.5M / Seed / Aug 08, 2016 | |
Omaze
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Omaze provides an online fundraising platform. It gives everyone a chance to win once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like a trip to SpaceX's Singularity University headquarters, or a hang-out session with the cast of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. | $9M / Series A / Jul 15, 2015 | |
Tapiture
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Tapiture is a social platform that helps you discover, share and buy an endless assortment of cool stuff. Tapiture sorts through the internet and helps you find all the content you'll really like. You can browse through videos, photos, GIFs, articles and more from all over the web, and it'll quickly learn what you're all about.You can dive deep into specific interests, organize your favorites into collections, or share with your friends. Whether you use the mobile app for iPhone or Android or visit the website, Tapiture will always have an endless feed of stuff you'll like. Just try it out—you'll see! | $2.3M / Seed / Feb 11, 2014 | |
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Collective[i]
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Collective[i]'s global network and application applies AI and ML to help companies better predict, manage, and grow revenue. | $20M / Series A / Mar 16, 2000 |
Co-Investors
About Amplify.LA
Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit. The firm was founded in 2011, and has backed dozens of companies, which together have raised over half a billion dollars in funding, with exits to Apple, Google, FanDuel and others.
Amplify.LA Contacts
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Andreas Biebl
Mentor
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Connor Sundberg
Senior Associate
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Dave Leyrer
Mentor
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David Dowling
Mentor
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George Rose
Mentor, Advisor, Investor
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FAQ
What does Dave Leyrer invest in?
Dave Leyrer invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence and SMS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 Dave Leyrer last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Dave Leyrer closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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