# Lerner Enterprises

> Lerner Enterprises is a VC fund backing Aerospace and Artificial Intelligence. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rockville, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lerner-enterprises/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lernerdc
- Website: http://www.lerner.com

Lerner Enterprises is a VC fund in Rockville focused on Aerospace and Artificial Intelligence. Founded by Theodore N. Lerner in 1952, Lerner is a best-in-class real estate developer and property manager with a diverse, award-winning portfolio of office, residential, retail, hospitality and mixed-use properties. Lerner has parlayed its success in real estate towards other investment verticals such as its purchase of the Washington Nationalsin 2006. Lerner actively pursues direct and indirect investments in growing businesses across the United States.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aerospace | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| iOS | 1 | 11% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |
| EdTech | 1 | 11% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 4 | 44% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Cohen | Director | 2 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chaos | Chaos Industries is a technology company that is building the next generation of defense and critical industry technologies. Applying an engineering-led strategy, Chaos provides mission-driven, world-class engineers with a platform to build solutions to critical real-world problems. The Chaos agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping,while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world application. | $145M | Series B | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| Chaos | Chaos Industries is a technology company that is building the next generation of defense and critical industry technologies. Applying an engineering-led strategy, Chaos provides mission-driven, world-class engineers with a platform to build solutions to critical real-world problems. The Chaos agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping,while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world application. | $70M | Series A | Mar 06, 2023 |  |
| Zephyr AI | Zephyr AI is a high-growth healthcare technology company committed to radically reshaping traditional approaches to drug discovery and precision medicine. | $18.5M | Seed | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Buzzer | Buzzer is scaling its proprietary technology and custom services to support an evolving industry embracing a more fan-centric approach and looking to connect with Gen Z audiences. Buzzer’s technology enables partners’ D2C platforms to be lighter, faster, curated, and personalized while saving on costly manual oversight and editorial resourcing,solving for a content-saturated and disaggregated consumer environment. | $20M | Series A | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| Momentus | Momentus is a U.S. commercial space company that plans to offer in-space infrastructure services, including in-space transportation, hosted payloads and in-orbit services. Momentus believes it can make new ways of operating in space possible with its planned in-space transfer and service vehicles that will be powered by an innovative waterplasma-based propulsion system that is under development. | $25.5M | Series A | Jul 17, 2019 |  |
| Kojo | Kojo provides a cloud-based software solution for the construction industry that manages the procurement, tracking, receipt, and payment of materials. It connects field teams, purchasing, warehouse, accounting, and vendor partners to centralize visibility into material costs, availability, and workflows. The platform integrates with existing ERPand project management tools to sync data across systems and reduce manual data entry. Features include mobile requisitioning, warehouse inventory tracking, tool tracking, and invoice processing. The mission is to help contractors modernize procurement workflows in order to gain more control over outcomes, increase sustainability, and reduce waste. | $4.2M | Seed | Oct 12, 2018 |  |
| Great Jones | At Great Jones, our mission is to deliver software & services to the several trillion (!) dollars in rental homes owned by small-scale investors.To reach that potential, we are starting with modern, full-service, highly technology-fueled property management – itself a $30-40 billion market, as well as the connective tissue to hundreds ofbillions of dollars’ worth of products & services to owners, residents, and other relevant stakeholders.Our leadership team has spent over a decade building digital platforms and operational machines that have powered billions of dollars' worth of transactions for businesses like 1stdibs, Skillshare, Uber, and Warby Parker.We are well-funded by leading global investors including Crosslink Capital, Zigg Capital, Juxtapose, and top NYC angels & real estate entrepreneurs including Kevin Ryan, David Rosenblatt, and Jason Finger, who have founded or led companies such as Seamless, Gilt Groupe, MongoDB, DoubleClick, 1stdibs, Floored, and others. |  | Seed | Apr 05, 2018 |  |
| Cricket eLearning | Fluent City is a language company that offers online classes in 11 different languages. We're on a mission to help you achieve your language-learning goals by teaching you how to talk about the things you care about most. Our team uses AI and natural language processing technology to provide hyper-relevant content and personalized, engaginglesson plans that help you get fluent faster. | $3M | Series A | Oct 18, 2017 |  |
| Cricket eLearning | Fluent City is a language company that offers online classes in 11 different languages. We're on a mission to help you achieve your language-learning goals by teaching you how to talk about the things you care about most. Our team uses AI and natural language processing technology to provide hyper-relevant content and personalized, engaginglesson plans that help you get fluent faster. | $2.5M | Seed | Sep 08, 2016 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [New Ground Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-ground-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Silent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silent-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1776 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1776-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Lerner Enterprises invest in?

Lerner Enterprises invests primarily in Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence and iOS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Lerner Enterprises?

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