Investing Profile

Lee Edwards

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General Partner at Root Ventures
root.vcSan Francisco, California
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Top-Patents Network
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Self-Employed Network
495 CONNECTIONS
Center for Rural Health Leadership Network
432 CONNECTIONS
Robyn Frankel Network
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Root Ventures General Partner
$500K - $2.0M
$1M
8
$150M
CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Trieve
SeedSep 2024$4M
$4.5M
Co-investors: Jennifer “Jenny" Fleiss (Initialized Capital), Kulveer Taggar (Angel investor), Pete Koomen
Privacy Dynamics
SeedDec 2022$6M
SeedMar 2021$4M
$12M
Co-investors: Andrew Peterson (Sweater Ventures), Rick Smith (Crosscut Ventures), Jason Spinell (Slack Fund), Ben Porterfield
Daily.co
Series BNov 2021$40M
Series AMar 2021$15M
$63M
Co-investors: Semil Shah (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), April Underwood (Obvious Ventures), Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Moshe Lifschitz (Basement Fund), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Christian Reber (Freigeist), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures), Sarah Imbach (Broadway Angels), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Ellen Levy (Silicon Valley Connect), Aston Motes (UnitedMasters), Roseanne Wincek (Renegade Partners), Edward Lando (Biowear), Jeff Seibert
Okteto
SeedSep 2020$3M
$18M
Co-investors: Erica Brescia (Redpoint Ventures), Grant Miller (Replicated), Florian Leibert (468 Capital), Villi Iltchev (Two Sigma Ventures)
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)
Member of the Board of Trustees Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering2020 - Present
General Partner Root Ventures2018 - Present
Partner Root Ventures2018 - Present
Lead Engineer Robyn FrankelPresent
Lead Engineer Newcastle Dive CenterPresent
Lead Engineer Self-EmployedPresent
CTO & VP of Engineering Teespring2015 - 2018
Engineering Manager Groupon2013 - 2015
Lead Engineer Center for Rural Health Leadership2012 - 2015
Lead Engineer NewCo2012 - 2015
Lead Engineer Top-Patents2012 - 2015
Lead Engineer SideTour (acquired by Groupon)2012 - 2015
Lead Engineer Self-employed2012 - 2015
Software Engineer VMware Tanzu Labs2010 - 2012
Software Engineer Pivotal Labs2010 - 2012
Mechanical Engineer iRobot2007 - 2010
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering B.S. Engineering - Systems Design