Investing Profile

Lee Edwards

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General Partner at Root Ventures

root.vcSan Francisco, California

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NewCo Network

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Top-Patents Network

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Self-Employed Network

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Robyn Frankel Network

466 CONNECTIONS

Center for Rural Health Leadership Network

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Current Investing Position

Root Ventures General Partner

Investment Range

$500K - $2.0M

Sweet Spot

$1M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$150M

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Lee Edwards's Investments On Record (6)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Trieve	SeedSep 2024$4M	$4.5M
Co-investors: Jennifer “Jenny" Fleiss (Initialized Capital), Pete Koomen (Y Combinator), Kulveer Taggar (Angel investor)
Privacy Dynamics	SeedDec 2022$6M SeedMar 2021$4M	$12M
Co-investors: Andrew Peterson (Aviso Ventures), Ben Porterfield (Self-employed), Rick Smith (Moving Capital), Jason Spinell (Slack Fund)
Daily.co	Series BNov 2021$40M Series AMar 2021$15M	$63M
Co-investors: Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Elizabeth Weil (Andreessen Horowitz), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Roseanne Wincek (IVP), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Ellen Levy (Silicon Valley Connect), Semil Shah (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Aston Motes (Various Startups), Moshe Lifschitz (US Investment Partners), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Christian Reber (Freigeist), April Underwood (Adverb Ventures), Sarah Imbach (Broadway Angels), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Jeff Seibert
Okteto	SeedSep 2020$3M	$18M
Co-investors: Grant Miller (Replicated), Florian Leibert (468 Capital), Erica Brescia (XFactor Ventures), Villi Iltchev (Two Sigma Ventures)
HASH	SeedJun 2020$3M	$3M
Co-investors: Joel Spolsky (Glitch), Anthony Goldbloom (AIX Ventures), Ash Fontana (Zetta Venture Partners)
Superconductive	SeedDec 2019	$61M
Co-investors: Shardul Shah (Index Ventures), Wally Wang (SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)), Ameet Patel

Lee Edwards's Media (1)

Announcing Root Ventures Fund III: $150M for technical founders

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Lee Edwards's Experience

Member of the Board of Trustees Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering2020 - Present

General Partner Root Ventures2018 - Present

Partner Root Ventures2018 - Present

Lead Engineer Nexus NotesPresent

Lead Engineer Private companyPresent

Lead Engineer Stealth Company (Vsevolod Leonov)Present

Lead Engineer Golden Boy TapesPresent

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

Lee Edwards's Education

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

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