# LeFrak

> LeFrak is a VC fund in New York backing Software and SaaS. See 108 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 108
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lefrak-organization
- Website: http://lefrak.com

LeFrak is a preeminent, family-owned property company committed to community development and long-term ownership. Its investments are geographically diverse and span many business sectors. It has significant investments in securities, private businesses, and energy.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$7M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$25M |
| Series B | $15M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 29 | 27% |
| SaaS | 15 | 14% |
| FinTech | 13 | 12% |
| Real Estate | 13 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 12 | 11% |

133 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 32 | 30% |
| Seed | 24 | 22% |
| Series B | 18 | 17% |
| Series C | 9 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 9 | 8% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 78 | 72% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jamie LeFrak | Vice Chairman and Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamie-lefrak |
| Larissa Carrera | Associate Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larissa-carrera |
| Richard Lefrak | Chairman & CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-lefrak |
| Samantha Maurer | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samantha-maurer |
| Harrison LeFrak | Vice Chairman | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-lefrak |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Esper | Esper helps build an infrastructure to support the full policymaking lifecycle in government and create a single source of truth for policy. Esper works with dozens of government agencies to streamline internal workflows and manage policymaking with ease. The company has grown to over 30 employees and raised over $14 million in funding. Esper’sclients include the New York City Police Department, Washington Department of Health and California State Treasurer’s Office. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| Rightask | Rightask AI is an AI tools company that provides businesses with AI agents, productivity tools, and brand building systems. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Ritten | Ritten delivers a platform that helps clinicians and administrators provide personalized, data-informed care. The company's platform offers customized workflow configurations that help to deliver complex treatment consistently and compliantly, enabling clinicians and administrators to maintain a comprehensive patient record that tracks allaspects of a patient's care, including clinical notes, medications, and treatment plans, and deliver personalized, data-informed care. | $35M | Series B | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| 100 | 100 is a prop-tech platform disrupting the multifamily rental and screening process with a tech-driven approach that makes renting easy. Leveraging cutting-edge identity verification and fraud prevention, 100 sets a new standard in rental applications—eliminating fraud and streamlining screening. | $5.2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Habyt | Habyt develops and manages community-driven and technologically-empowered co-living spaces. Habyt provides fully furnished private and shared apartments with flexible rental options and transparent pricing, accommodating diverse living arrangements globally. Habyt emphasizes community-driven, tech-enabled co-living spaces, making it easy forresidents to connect and collaborate. | $44.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| MelodyArc | MelodyArc is a technology company that is combining advanced automation, AI and people to transform how frontline teams service their customers. Our flagship product, MelodyArc CX is the world's first all-in-one CX operations platform. Designed to layer on top of existing CRM and customer support channels, MelodyArc CX increases resolutionrates and reduces overall operating costs by 50% while preserving the special human factor that defines great customer experiences. MelodyArc CX is powered by a proprietary decision engine built to make strategic expertise scalable to the front lines, enabling a consistent, perfectly on-brand experience. This engine is bundled with customer support-specific AIs and ArcAgents, who are there to guide the system in special circumstances or elevate exceptions. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in NY/NJ, MelodyArc is backed by leading investors including Flybridge, Bloomberg BETA, Nextview, Flexport and FJ Labs. The best is built in. | $2.7M | Seed | Jul 08, 2024 |  |
| Whoosh | Whoosh develops modern club operations software to help private clubs manage everything from the course to the clubhouse. Built with the input of the world's best operators, Whoosh streamlines operations, improves member and staff communication, and enables better hospitality and member experiences. | $10.3M | Series A | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Wonderschool | Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes.Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live inapartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own.Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments.It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children. | $274.5K | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 11, 2024 |  |
| BlueVoyant | BlueVoyant is a cybersecurity company that enables cybersecurity defense and protection through technology and tailored services. The company provides advanced cyber threat intelligence managed security services and proactive professional services with forensic capabilities for incident response and remediation. They help large enterprises withimpactful intelligence and offer small and medium enterprises the same kind of software and level of services that large enterprises enjoy all from a world-class team of experts that would be challenging to amass directly.BlueVoyant offers increased visibility, professional insights, and targeted responsiveness. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. | $140M | Series E | Nov 29, 2023 |  |
| Luminary | Luminary is a technology platform that automates the complex and inefficient estate planning process. The platform can streamline execution complexity and manual workflows, reducing risk, and expanding opportunities for use. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in New York. |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 108 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 20 deals together
- [Formation 8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/formation8) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Alpaca VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpaca-vc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bienville Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bienville-capital-management) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does LeFrak invest in?

LeFrak invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 108 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is LeFrak's check size?

LeFrak typically joins rounds of $2M–$7M at Seed, $3.3M–$25M at Series A and $15M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds LeFrak participates in.

### How do I contact LeFrak?

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### Who are the partners at LeFrak?

The team at LeFrak includes Jamie LeFrak (Vice Chairman and Managing Director), Larissa Carrera (Associate Director) and Richard Lefrak (Chairman & CEO), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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