# Ira Lubert

> Ira Lubert is a seed investor at LLR Partners backing VoIP and FinTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LLR Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/llr-partners)
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Feb 2020
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.patriotfp.com/

Ira Lubert is a seed investor at LLR Partners in Philadelphia focused on VoIP and FinTech. Ira Lubert is the current Co-Founder of Lubert Adler Real Estate Funds. He previously worked at TL Ventures as a Managing Director and Co-Founder. Ira Lubert attended Penn State University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| VoIP | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Consumer | 1 | 20% |
| Internet | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Houwzer | Houwzer is a next-generation real estate brokerage and home services company built around the customer. Its full-service, salaried agents and mortgage advisors help homeowners save when they sell and trust when they buy. Houwzer’s proprietary technology is an end-to-end platform that streamlines the entire transaction from consultation to closingwith an integrated one-stop shopping experience. The company employs seller and buyer agent specialists, who receive salaries instead of commissions, allowing them to focus on service, not just sales. Houwzer has maintained an industry-leading Net Promoter Score of 84 and an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars from hundreds of client reviews online. Since launching in 2015, Houwzer has saved home sellers on the East Coast millions and helped clients buy or sell thousands of homes worth more than $1 billion. | $9.5M | Series A | Feb 05, 2020 |  |
| Houwzer | Houwzer is a next-generation real estate brokerage and home services company built around the customer. Its full-service, salaried agents and mortgage advisors help homeowners save when they sell and trust when they buy. Houwzer’s proprietary technology is an end-to-end platform that streamlines the entire transaction from consultation to closingwith an integrated one-stop shopping experience. The company employs seller and buyer agent specialists, who receive salaries instead of commissions, allowing them to focus on service, not just sales. Houwzer has maintained an industry-leading Net Promoter Score of 84 and an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars from hundreds of client reviews online. Since launching in 2015, Houwzer has saved home sellers on the East Coast millions and helped clients buy or sell thousands of homes worth more than $1 billion. | $5.3M | Seed | Jan 06, 2019 |  |
| Merlin | Merlin is the first on-demand creative marketing platform for businesses and teams.Say goodbye to managing frustrating freelancers and expensive agency fees, with Merlin beautiful on-demand marketing projects and campaigns are easy.WIth the most exclusive creative marketers in America, on-demand for a single project or complete campaigns,the agency of the future is here. Powered by web and mobile apps and smart technologies, we are reinventing the ad industry to make the power of big agencies finally available 24/7 to innovative businesses and disruptive entrepreneurs.Visit the website at www.thinkmerlin.com. | $500K | Seed | Dec 01, 2016 |  |
| Thrive Commerce | Thrive Commerce empowers online merchants to sell more. They are revolutionizing the billon-dollar digital coupon industry and eCommerce at large. | $875K | Seed | Feb 19, 2016 |  |
| Evolve IP | Evolve IP is a Cloud Services Company. They provide organizations with a unified option for cloud services such as virtual servers, virtual desktops, disaster recovery, IP telephony, unified communications, contact centers, and more.They have built geographically-diverse, redundant data centers based on technologies from Cisco, EMC, VMware, andBroadsoft, and connected various tier-one carriers to create a Private Cloud. Sitting on top of this cloud-based service is a proprietary portal that they call OSSmosis, which is a single unified portal to control all Evolve IP services. | $15.6M | Series A | Jan 18, 2008 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Admiral Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/admiral-capital-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Broad Street Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/broad-street-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ben Franklin Technology Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-franklin-technology-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Edison Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edison-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GoPhillyFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gophillyfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LLR Partners

VC Fund · Philadelphia, United States

LLR Partners is a lower middle market private equity firm investing in technology and healthcare businesses.

5 contacts available at LLR Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Reuter | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-reuter |
| David Stienes | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-stienes |
| Howard Ross | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-ross |
| Jack Slye | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-slye |
| James Murphy | Managing Director, Value Creation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-murphy-4 |

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## FAQ

### What does Ira Lubert invest in?

Ira Lubert invests primarily in VoIP, FinTech and Consumer startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Ira Lubert?

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### When did Ira Lubert last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ira Lubert closed in Feb 2020. Shizune tracks 5 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?

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