Howard Lerman
Angel Investor
New York, United States
Howard Lerman is a seed investor in New York focused on Software and Advertising. Howard Lerman is the Founder, CEO and Chief !nventor of Roam. He previously worked at Yext as a Co-Founder and CEO. Howard Lerman attended Duke University.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Howard Lerman invests in
Stages Howard Lerman invests in
Countries Howard Lerman invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$47M
- Series A
- $15M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (54%)
- Advertising 3 (23%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (23%)
- SaaS 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (69%)
- Series A 2 (15%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Orchard Robotics develops an operating system that enables precision agriculture driven by robots and AI. Its camera systems and computer vision software gather precise data for the visible fruit on any tree. It is utilized by growers, packers, and marketers to manage crop load and supply chains. | $22M / Series A / Sep 03, 2025 | ||
| Orchard Robotics develops an operating system that enables precision agriculture driven by robots and AI. Its camera systems and computer vision software gather precise data for the visible fruit on any tree. It is utilized by growers, packers, and marketers to manage crop load and supply chains. | $3.2M / Seed / Mar 27, 2024 | ||
| Antithesis develops QA software that revolutionizes the way software testing is performed. At Antithesis, the company wants to bring the confidence and productivity benefits of autonomous testing to your team. It has developed a platform that searches for bugs in your software, in a controlled environment where all bugs are reproducible. Its firstoffering finds fault tolerance bugs: failures of the software that occur under specific network, hardware, or timing conditions. | $47M / Seed / Feb 13, 2024 | ||
| Candidate.fyi, is a candidate engagement suite for recruiting team and give candidates a single hub to learn about the company, prepare for interviews, track progress, schedule interviews, and provide feedback. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Oct 05, 2023 | ||
| GreenPlaces is a sustainability software that serves as a company's sustainability team -- we help clients gain visibility into carbon emissions, reduce their environmental impact, and reach their climate goals with ease. It's easy to implement, provides accurate and investor grade reporting, and includes guidance to reduce and offset abusiness' carbon footprint. It's an end-to-end sustainability partner for businesses.The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. | $4M / Seed / Aug 24, 2022 | ||
| Realworld simplifies and automates the complexities of adulthood -- finance, health, insurance, and more, all in one place. | $3.2M / Seed / Jun 07, 2022 | ||
| Roam is a one-stop Cloud HQ created to serve as the central hub for entire businesses. When all of the employees work out of the same headquarters, meetings move more quickly and creatively. Roam creates meeting minutes from meeting hours. | $10.6M / Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | ||
| Keywee offers publishers and marketers a new approach to content distribution and performance measurement. Its revolutionary platform employs advanced text-mining technology and a vast database of historical content performance to help publishers, retailers, and brands find the audiences most likely to meet specific business goals for theircontent. Keywee’s customers include The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Conde Nast, National Geographic, The New York Times, and Slate. Backed by leading investors including Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors and Marker LLC, as well as The New York Times Company.Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in New York with an office in Tel Aviv. | $21M / Series B / Nov 18, 2021 | ||
| The Vendry is a digital marketplace and professional community for the events industry. By joining The Vendry, event professionals get free access to RFP tools that help them source venues and vendors for their events, an exclusive jobs board, discussion forums and networking opportunities, and other resources to keep up with industry news and seekinspiration for their own events. As of September 2021, The Vendry has over 17,500 members and has helped plan thousands of live and virtual events. | $6.5M / Seed / Sep 23, 2021 | ||
| Pilot offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. The company's platform offers accurate financial reports and automated accrual basis bookkeeping to produce on-demand and error-free reports, enabling businesses to reduce time, cost, and labor associated with traditional outsourced bookkeeping practices. | $15.3M / Series A / Mar 14, 2018 | ||
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FAQ
What does Howard Lerman invest in?
Howard Lerman invests primarily in Software, Advertising and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Howard Lerman invest in?
Howard Lerman typically joins rounds of $250k–$47M at Seed and $15M–$22M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Howard Lerman's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Howard Lerman took part in.
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When did Howard Lerman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Howard Lerman closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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