# Lehman Holdings

> Lehman Holdings is a VC fund in New York backing Software, E-Commerce and Telecommunications. See 52 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 52
- Last investment: Mar 2009
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lehman-brothers
- Website: http://www.lehman.com

Lehman Holdings is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and E-Commerce. Lehman Brothers was a global financial services firm that was founded in 1850 and went bankrupt in 2008. Barclays acquired Lehman Brothers' North American investment banking and capital markets businesses for $250 million.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $10M–$55M |
| Series D | $12M–$43M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 13% |
| Telecommunications | 7 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 13% |
| Internet | 6 | 12% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 13 | 25% |
| Series D | 13 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 19% |
| Series C | 9 | 17% |
| Series A | 3 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 36 | 69% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AOptix Technologies | AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as bordersecurity, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video. | $12.9M | Series D | Mar 20, 2009 |  |
| ExaGrid | ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The Repository Tier offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes fullappliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and planned product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers comprehensive security and is the only two-tiered backup storage approach with a non-network-facing tier (tiered air gap), delayed deletes, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks.The ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage product line consists of seven appliance models that can be mixed and matched with up to 32 appliances in a single scale-out system. Each appliance is sized for a full backup and for long-term retention. The largest scale-out system can take in up to a 6PB full backup, offering the largest single scale-out system storage capacity for any backup storage on the market. | $12M | Series D | Dec 17, 2008 |  |
| MyShape | MyShape.com is an online retail store created for you. Personalized stores (called myShop) search for and display clothing matched to a shopper's specific measurements, body shape and preferences. | $12M | Series C | Oct 06, 2008 |  |
| Verified Identity Pass | The company's voluntary credentialing program, Clear, is the first and only privately run Registered Traveler program operating at a U.S. airport. | $44M |  | Aug 19, 2008 |  |
| Palo Alto Networks | Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.The next-generation security company is a new era in cybersecurity by safely enabling applications and preventing cyber breaches for thousands of organizations. It is built with an innovative approach and highly differentiated cyberthreatprevention capabilities, their game-changing security platform delivers security far superior to legacy or point products, safely enables daily business operations, and protects an organization’s valuable assets.The Santa Clara, California-based security company was founded in 2005. | $27M | Series C | Aug 18, 2008 |  |
| Aspen Aerogels | Aspen Aerogels provides thermal management and energy conservation insulation solutions for a variety of industries. Their insulation products are up to eight times more effective than traditional insulation materials. Aspen Aerogels' insulation provides maximum thermal performance with minimal weight and thickness for a growing range ofconsumer items, including packaging products and many outdoor gear, apparel, and footwear products. | $37M | Series D | Jun 25, 2008 |  |
| Storwize | Storwize, Inc. is the only provider of real-time data compression solutions that dramatically boost storage space on network storage environments. Storwize appliances are installed between the organization's storage arrays and their network. Designed to work with any storage array it is connected to, the Storwize appliance typically providesorganizations with 2-5X additional capacity with associated savings in capital, operational, maintenance and management resources. Storwize solutions have been shipped to customer sites worldwide and successfully tested for interoperability with leading storage vendors such as EMC and NetApp. Storwize has won several coveted industry honors from analyst firms and leading IT publications, and added multiple new customers in different vertical markets worldwide.Increase the effective capacity of existing NAS infrastructure up to 15x with Storwize’s STN-6000p capacity optimization platform featuring real-time lossless data compression. Based upon a powerful multi-core hardware platform, the STN-6000p appliance is deployed between the network, switch and storage providing average data compression of > 65% across multiple applications and more than 90% on business critical applications without performance degradation, enabling it to be deployed in even the most data intensive enterprise environments. The appliance does not require workflow changes, software agents or server drivers and can be deployed seamlessly without any configuration changes to existing environments. | $19M | Series C | Apr 02, 2008 |  |
| PEAK Surgical | PEAK Surgical is a medical device company that is committed to providing physicians with surgical tools that have the precision of a scalpel and the bleeding control of traditional electrosurgery without the extensive collateral damage – a revolutionary benefit that fills a critical market gap.The PEAK Surgery System is cleared for use ingeneral, plastic and reconstructive, ENT, gynecologic, orthopedic, arthroscopic, spinal and neurological surgical procedures in the United States and for use in general surgery in the EU.PEAK Surgical is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $21M | Series C | Feb 04, 2008 |  |
| KAYAK | KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips,explore, and price forecast.In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories.KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia. | $196M | Series D | Dec 01, 2007 |  |
| Qunar.com | Qunar is a Chinese-language online travel information provider and mainland search engine for web-based and mobile users.Aiming to help travelers make suitable choices, Qunar organizes enormous information and provides thorough and instant search results for flights, hotels, packages, group-buying deals, visa, and other travel-related informationthrough its accessible, humanistic, and avant-garde technology. Qunar also provides group-buying deals in more than 100 Chinese cities.Qunar was reported to have around 75 million monthly visitors and 34 million activated mobile app users, based on a survey by mainland consulting firm iResearch. As of 2013, Qunar searches over 700 Chinese online travel web sites, covering more than 100,000 hotels, 11,000 domestic and international air routes, 40,000 holiday packages, and 25,000 tourist sites.Founded in 2005 in Beijing, Qunar received a US$306 million investment from Baidu, which became Qunar’s majority shareholder on June 24, 2011. Its main competitors are Elong and Ctrip. | $10M | Series B | Nov 21, 2007 |  |

10 of 52 investments shown.

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- [Goldman Sachs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goldman-sachs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Greenbridge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenbridge-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Lehman Holdings invest in?

Lehman Holdings invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Telecommunications startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 52 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 Lehman Holdings's check size?

Lehman Holdings typically joins rounds of $10M–$55M at Series B and $12M–$43M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lehman Holdings participates in.

### When did Lehman Holdings last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lehman Holdings closed in Mar 2009. Shizune tracks 52 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?

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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