# Lee Edwards

> Lee Edwards is a seed investor at Root Ventures (New York) backing Software and Internet. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Root Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rootvc)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/leeredwards
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/terronk
- Website: https://lee.af
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/terronk

Lee Edwards is a General Partner at Root Ventures, an early-stage investment firm focused on hard tech. Lee's area is the software thesis for Root - including developer tools and services, software infrastructure, tools for data scientists and engineers, and applied AI & ML. He works closely with Daily, Esper, HASH, and Superconductive.His angel and scout portfolio includes (Lever, Common Networks, Skydio, Dipsea Stories.) Lee previously worked at Teespring as a CTO and VP of Engineering. He attended Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.He was previously CTO & VP Engineering at Teespring, Lead Engineer at SideTour and Engineering Manager at Groupon after SideTour was acquired by Groupon in 2013, and an engineer at Pivotal Labs and iRobot.Lee holds a B.S. in Engineering with a concentration in Systems Design from Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA. He was a member of the second graduating class in 2007, and now serves as Olin College's first alumni full member of the Board of Trustees.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Internet | 2 | 25% |
| Data Integration | 2 | 25% |
| Cloud Data Services | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Trieve | Trieve provides search teams with infrastructure for retrieval and RAG. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| Privacy Dynamics | Data privacy tools built for analytics engineers and the modern data stack. | $5.6M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Daily.co | Pluot is the easiest way to video conference. A complete hardware + software solution for video conferencing and screen sharing. Dedicated hardware that easily connects to your TV. Free software so anyone can join your meetings. | $40M | Series B | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Daily.co | Pluot is the easiest way to video conference. A complete hardware + software solution for video conferencing and screen sharing. Dedicated hardware that easily connects to your TV. Free software so anyone can join your meetings. | $15M | Series A | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| Privacy Dynamics | Data privacy tools built for analytics engineers and the modern data stack. | $4M | Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Okteto | Okteto is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of software development, software engineering, and the cloud computing industry. The company allows software developers to upload and run their software online through Okteto Cloud. Okteto was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2.9M | Seed | Sep 10, 2020 |  |
| HASH | HASH enables the real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems. HASH's open-core platform allows developers and data scientists to quickly and easily construct simulations through composable parts, via a browser-based IDE and viewer for simulations. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York City. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 18, 2020 |  |
| Superconductive | Superconductive is the creator of Great Expectations, an open-source tool for data testing, documentation, and profiling. Great Expectations has a vibrant community where both core contributors and community members provide each other support through channels like Slack and Discuss. They offer paid consulting services to organizations that wouldbenefit from closer collaboration with the core Great Expectations engineering team.It was created in 2017 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. |  | Seed | Dec 03, 2019 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Slack Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/slack-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Haystack](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haystack) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Crosscut Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosscut-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Freestyle Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freestyle-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Moxxie Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moxxie-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Root Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technical teams working on deep tech. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investments. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Root Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lee Edwards | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lee-edwards |
| Avidan Ross | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avidan-ross |
| Chrissy Meyer | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chrissy-meyer |
| Emily Henriksson | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-henriksson-77e8 |
| Kane Hsieh | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kane-hsieh |

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## FAQ

### What does Lee Edwards invest in?

Lee Edwards invests primarily in Software, Internet and Data Integration 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 Lee Edwards last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lee Edwards closed in Sep 2024. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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