Eric Hippeau
Managing Partner and co-Founder @ Lerer Hippeau
New York, United States
Eric Hippeau is a seed investor at Lerer Hippeau in New York focused on Cannabis and Software. Eric Hippeau is based out of New York, New York, and is the managing partner and co-Founder of Lerer Hippeau. Eric previously worked at The Huffington Post as a Chief Executive Officer. Eric Hippeau attended the Université Paris-Sorbonne.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
Last updated:
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Industries Eric Hippeau invests in
Stages Eric Hippeau invests in
Countries Eric Hippeau invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Cannabis 3 (14%)
- Software 3 (14%)
- Media and Entertainment 3 (14%)
- SaaS 2 (9%)
- Mobile 2 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (36%)
- Series A 4 (18%)
- Series B 3 (14%)
- Series C 2 (9%)
- Series D 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 13 (59%)
- Canada 2 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Pioneering the World's Best Hospitality Rewards Program exclusively for the World's Best Independent Operators. The first rewards program tailored for the vacation rental market and boutique hotels, enabling guests to accumulate points with each stay, offering a novel way for hosts to drive direct bookings and engagement across a vastnetwork of alliance properties and a growing CRM of loyal guests and travel enthusiasts accessible for small-scale operators. | $7.7M / Seed / Mar 26, 2025 | ||
| Goldensetsupport creators by becoming equity partners in their growing and evolving businesses, with the collective goal of creating long-term enterprise value truly owned by the creator. We believe that creators are more than just "influencers" who can be rented like billboards by other companies and brands but are also the founders ofhigh-growth start-ups with Fortune 500 potential. | $10M / Seed / Jan 18, 2023 | ||
| Halp makes studying abroad easy. Our product is a web app + text-based coach that acts like a 1:1 trainer throughout the international admissions process. Halp is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | $4M / Seed / Oct 05, 2022 | ||
| Bookkeep.com is a provider of summarized financial automation for retail, restaurant, and ecommerce businesses. | $3.3M / Seed / May 27, 2021 | ||
| WorkJam is an employee engagement suite that unleashes the potential of enterprise workforces through agile scheduling, transformative communication, experiential learning, and tailored recognition, empowering the shift-based, hourly, and non-desk workers. It manages and optimizes the entire employee-employer relationship life cycle with dynamicmobile communication and workforce management to drive operational efficiency and productivity. It also enables employers to improve labor cost management and sales through better communication with their workforce, enhanced employee self-service, and a better customer experience through a more motivated and engaged staff.WorkJam was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. | $50M / Series C / Apr 06, 2020 | ||
| Wondery, a network of storytellers, creates and curates immersive podcasts including Sword & Scale, Dirty John, American History Tellers, Business Wars, Hollywood & Crime, Something You Should Know, and over 50 others. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, United States. | $5M / Series A / Mar 29, 2018 | ||
| BLADE is a technology-powered, short-distance aviation company committed to reducing travel friction by enabling cost-effective air transportation alternatives. They leverage their technology to enable travelers to utilize and enjoy air travel. BLADE arranges on-demand charter and scheduled flights across a diverse accessible fleet of helicopters,jets, turboprops, and seaplanes.BLADE operates in New York City, Long Island and the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington DC, and many other locations. | $38M / Series B / Mar 22, 2018 | ||
| Vangst is the premier talent resource for the cannabis industry. Built on a network of the industry’s best people and widest-ranging career opportunities, Vangst helps employers and employees succeed in cannabis. From temporary gig work to full-time career placement, the company is trusted by the biggest and most innovative brands in cannabis forfull-spectrum staffing needs and has successfully matched tens of thousands of cannabis professionals with leading cannabis companies, The Vangst team’s industry expertise and passion for the plant make us uniquely qualified to help companies match with the perfect candidate and successfully navigate a nuanced and ever-evolving regulatory landscape. At the end of the day, Vangst is about getting cannabis to work with smart technology, unmatched experience, and the industry’s best community of talent. | $2.5M / Seed / Mar 21, 2018 | ||
| Herb is a Cannabis website and community that curates and understands cannabis as a medicine and therapeutic herb. | $4.1M / Seed / Aug 29, 2017 | ||
| LeafLink is a wholesale management platform that connects cannabis brands and retailers. It helps brands and retailers who want to streamline the ordering process, simplify communication, and spend less time on busywork. With a robust online marketplace, CRM, and order management tools, LeafLink has created a centralized sales engine to helpretailers manage and grow their business. LeafLink was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York. It serves over 1,200 brands and 3,500 retailers across 22 territories in the US and Canada | $3M / Seed / Apr 03, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Lerer Hippeau
Lerer Hippeau is a seed-stage venture capital firm. The firm has invested in entrepreneurs with great ideas who aren’t afraid to do hard things. Their portfolio includes more than 400 enterprise and consumer businesses, including Guideline, MIRROR, Blockdaemon, K Health, Allbirds, ZenBusiness, and Thrive. They’re experienced operators who investearly and stay in their founders’ corners as they build iconic companies.
Lerer Hippeau Contacts
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Ron Zori
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Andrea Vogel
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Ben Lerer
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Caitlin Strandberg
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Daniel Rochkind
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What does Eric Hippeau invest in?
Eric Hippeau invests primarily in Cannabis, Software and Media and Entertainment startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Eric Hippeau closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 22 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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