Investing Profile

Lee Edwards

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General Partner at Root Ventures
root.vcSan Francisco, California
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Networks Lee is a member of
NewCo Network
1585 CONNECTIONS
Top-Patents Network
1029 CONNECTIONS
Center for Rural Health Leadership Network
432 CONNECTIONS
Self-Employed Network
426 CONNECTIONS
Robyn Frankel Network
271 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Root Ventures General Partner
Investment Range
$500K - $2.0M
Sweet Spot
$1M
Investments On Record
8
Current Fund Size
$150M

Lee Edwards is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Lee Edwards's Investments On Record (6)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Trieve
SeedSep 2024$4M
$4.5M
Co-investors: Kulveer Taggar (Angel investor), Jennifer “Jenny" Fleiss (Volition Capital), Pete Koomen
Privacy Dynamics
SeedDec 2022$6M
SeedMar 2021$4M
$12M
Co-investors: Rick Smith (Crosscut Ventures), Jason Spinell (Slack Fund), Andrew Peterson (Sweater Ventures), Ben Porterfield
Daily.co
Series BNov 2021$40M
Series AMar 2021$15M
$63M
Co-investors: David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), April Underwood (Obvious Ventures), Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Semil Shah (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ellen Levy (Silicon Valley Connect), Moshe Lifschitz (Basement Fund), Gokul Rajaram (Top-Patents), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Christian Reber (Freigeist), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures), Sarah Imbach (Broadway Angels), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Aston Motes (UnitedMasters), Roseanne Wincek (Renegade Partners), Edward Lando (Biowear), Jeff Seibert
Okteto
SeedSep 2020$3M
$18M
Co-investors: Erica Brescia (Redpoint Ventures), Florian Leibert (468 Capital), Villi Iltchev (Two Sigma Ventures), Grant Miller
HASH
SeedJun 2020$3M
$3M
Co-investors: Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), Ash Fontana (Zetta Venture Partners), Joel Spolsky
Superconductive
SeedDec 2019
$61M
Co-investors: Shardul Shah (Index Ventures), Wally Wang (Scale Asia Ventures)

Lee Edwards's Experience

Member of the Board of Trustees Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering2020 - Present
Partner Root Ventures2018 - Present
General Partner Root Ventures2018 - Present
Lead Engineer Self-EmployedPresent
Lead Engineer Newcastle Dive CenterPresent
Lead Engineer Robyn FrankelPresent
CTO & VP of Engineering Teespring2015 - 2018
Engineering Manager Groupon2013 - 2015
Lead Engineer Self-employed2012 - 2015
Lead Engineer SideTour (acquired by Groupon)2012 - 2015
Lead Engineer Top-Patents2012 - 2015
Lead Engineer NewCo2012 - 2015
Lead Engineer Center for Rural Health Leadership2012 - 2015
Software Engineer Pivotal Labs2010 - 2012
Software Engineer VMware Tanzu Labs2010 - 2012
Mechanical Engineer iRobot2007 - 2010

Lee Edwards's Education

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering B.S. Engineering - Systems Design