# Ron Zori

> Ron Zori is a seed investor at Lerer Hippeau backing FinTech and Artificial Intelligence. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lerer Hippeau](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lerer-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-zori-9b718681

Ron Zori is a seed investor at Lerer Hippeau in New York focused on FinTech and Artificial Intelligence. Ron Zori is based out of New York and is the Venture Partner of Lerer Hippeau.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 6 | 35% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 24% |
| SaaS | 3 | 18% |
| Software | 3 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 18% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 59% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 24% |
| Series B | 2 | 12% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 59% |
| Germany | 3 | 18% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Israel | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Voyantis | Voyantis is a provider of an AI-driven growth platform for customer acquisition and lifecycle optimization. The company allows businesses to acquire, retain, and nurture high-value customers with precision and efficiency. It integrates predictive and prescriptive AI to eliminate the guesswork traditionally involved in assessing a customer’spotential value and delivers the user automated actions on the next steps and execution timing. | $41M | Series B | Feb 11, 2025 |  |
| Terra One | Terra One engages in the development and operation of large-scale battery storage systems. | $7.5M | Seed | Apr 25, 2024 |  |
| Voyantis | Voyantis is a provider of an AI-driven growth platform for customer acquisition and lifecycle optimization. The company allows businesses to acquire, retain, and nurture high-value customers with precision and efficiency. It integrates predictive and prescriptive AI to eliminate the guesswork traditionally involved in assessing a customer’spotential value and delivers the user automated actions on the next steps and execution timing. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Cambrium | Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks. Our platform combines synthetic biology, machine learning and lab automation to create high-performance materials at scale.We fundamentally believe that the ability to align economic and environmental incentives makes biologythe most important manufacturing technology of the 21st century. We are accelerating a Cambrian explosion of biomaterials to address the world’s most pressing problems. | $8.5M | Seed | Oct 31, 2023 |  |
| Triplebar | Triplebar provides sustainability, biotechnology, and synthetic biology research. | $20M | Series A | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| Colbr | Colbr offers a digital and transparent process for global asset allocation, covering financial markets, private equity, real estate, and more. It is a fintech company that provides wealth management services, financial services, and real estate. | $1.1M | Seed | Apr 17, 2023 |  |
| Ledge | Ledge is a command center for payments built for finance teams operating at scale.Ledge empowers finance teams with tools to centralize their payments data, get a real-time payments snapshot, automate multi-way reconciliation, identify problem transactions, accelerate their investigations, and dramatically lower the risk of losses, all withoutany engineering support.Finance teams regain control of payments and are freed to focus on strategic business impact, not manual payments work. | $9M | Seed | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Classet | Classet automates the most time-consuming recruiting tasks with voice AI.Our view is that recruiters provide the highest level of impact to candidates when they spend their time building relationships and helping candidates succeed. Transform your hiring with Classet's AI-powered instant interview solution. Automate screening, scheduleeffortlessly, and hire top talent faster than ever. Experience the future of recruitment now!We don't use AI to replace the human touch desperately needed in recruiting - we use AI to augment and accelerate it, while providing a best-in-class candidate experience! | $3M | Seed | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Roebling | Roebling is the first AI-native development stack: process design, cost estimation, and financial modeling all in one workspace, where projects are delivered on time and under budget. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 14, 2022 |  |
| Rex | Rex has built the next generation of veterinary care, transforming a traditional industry to better serve pet owners, pets, veterinarians, and staff. Its state-of-the-art app, in-clinic technology, and design-forward space foster meaningful relationships between doctors, pets, and their owners. | $5.1M | Seed | Jul 18, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HOF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hof-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Picus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/picus-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Redseed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redseed-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Lerer Hippeau

VC Fund · New York, United States

Lerer Hippeau is a seed-stage venture capital firm. The firm has invested in entrepreneurs with great ideas who aren’t afraid to do hard things. Their portfolio includes more than 400 enterprise and consumer businesses, including Guideline, MIRROR, Blockdaemon, K Health, Allbirds, ZenBusiness, and Thrive. They’re experienced operators who investearly and stay in their founders’ corners as they build iconic companies.

5 contacts available at Lerer Hippeau.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ron Zori | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-zori |
| Andrea Vogel | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-hippeau |
| Ben Lerer | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-lerer |
| Caitlin Strandberg | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caitlin-strandberg |
| Daniel Rochkind | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-rochkind |

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## FAQ

### What does Ron Zori invest in?

Ron Zori invests primarily in FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 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 Ron Zori last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ron Zori closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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