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Keep up with The Roundup, our weekly newsletter chronicling the latest on our fund, our portfolio companies, and career opportunities in our ecosystem. In this week's edition: > Please welcome Ayoh Foods, our latest investment > Pie, the social app for friends, launches in San Francisco > Plantible raises $30 million in Series B round > What we’re reading: Can LLMs continue learning?; how AI is impacting strategy; a grassroots effort to make AI voices more diverse > Check out our open roles here: https://lnkd.in/e_BSZbSS Read today’s Roundup: https://lnkd.in/ehZXMN_Y Subscribe: https://bit.ly/30C1o1U

LH Partner Andrea Hippeau participated in a panel during last week's Women’s Private Capital Summit. Titled “Win Pack LPs,” the panel discussed the state of venture and how VCs can regain LP trust after many industry players invested imprudently at sky-high valuations in 2021.

LH Managing Partner Ben Lerer spoke with founder Brynn Jinnett Putnam and Connie Loizos at last week's StrictlyVC event. Read a condensed version of their interview in TechCrunch and check out the full video. https://lnkd.in/dDyaXRFh

Meet our latest investment: Ayoh Foods Ayoh is celeb chef and food influencer Molly Baz's product debut, and the team is on a mission to enhance the quality of everyday sandwiches with its series of next-level condiments. Ayoh packs its mayo base with flavorful ingredients like pickles, spices, herbs, and vinegar to create a one-stop sauce for sandwiches of every variety. Each of the company’s four core flavors—Original Mayo, Dill Pickle Mayo, Tangy Dijonayo, and Hot Giardinayo—makes it as easy as possible to assemble delicious meals from home, and enable culinary experimentation of all kinds. For nearly 15 years at Lerer Hippeau, we have invested in the best enterprise and consumer businesses, including several high-quality food and beverage companies — equally expert in brand prowess and product quality and stickiness. Ayoh falls squarely within this scope, and has developed a line of mayo-based sauces bringing gourmet experiences home for consumers. Molly is bringing her culinary knowledge to bear in a natural product line extension of her incredibly impressive brand. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Molly, co-founder David McCormick, and the Ayoh team as they capitalize on demand for high quality ingredients, end boring sandwiches, and launch their sauces in home kitchens and grocery stores around the country. https://lnkd.in/eNWK8EmH

LH Managing Partner Ben Lerer spoke with Brynn Jinnett Putnam and Connie Loizos at StrictlyVC’s NYC event about their long-standing partnership and the latest for Brynn and LH. Thanks to HSBC for hosting in their spectacular space.

Keep up with The Roundup, our weekly newsletter chronicling the latest on our fund, our portfolio companies, and career opportunities in our ecosystem. In this week's edition: > Please welcome Conflixis, our latest investment > Alexandre R., CEO & co-founder of Crossing Minds, on AI in The Information > Symbiotic Security profiled by DevOps > What we’re reading: Meta’s AI strategy; AI companies encounter development headwinds; how GenAI is impacting artists? > Check out our open roles here: https://lnkd.in/e_BSZbSS Read today’s Roundup: https://lnkd.in/e_ACsv-4 Subscribe: https://bit.ly/30C1o1U

Meet our latest investment: Conflixis Conflicts of interest are prevalent in the healthcare industry and risk compromising patient care and medical research while exposing organizations to wasteful spending and criminal, civil, or reputational risk. And yet, identifying and mapping these relationships is time consuming and complex. At a time when trust in the healthcare system is at an all-time low, there is a real need for a solution that can help healthcare organizations discover and mitigate the risks created by conflicts of interest. Conflixis has developed an AI software platform that helps hospitals, practice groups, insurers, and other large healthcare organizations to understand the role that conflicting financial relationships play in medical and operational decisions. By leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning, Conflixis provides these organizations with the tools they need to make informed decisions and maintain compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory and cost-sensitive environment. https://lnkd.in/edF44Rin

In October, we hosted our annual meeting for our investors and enjoyed excellent presentations from portfolio companies, among lots of other updates on the market and our funds.

Meet our latest investment: Symbiotic Security As the digital world accelerates and bad actors mount increasingly sophisticated cyber threats using generative AI, the dominant paradigm for security has become obsolete. In recent years, the concept of “shift left”—the integration of security directly into the development process—has gained purchase among developers, but its adoption faces a number of challenges, including a lack of tools and training. There is a clear need for new solutions that can keep up with the pace of cyberattacks in the digital age and reorient security around the coding process. Symbiotic Security is the industry’s first real-time security platform for software developers that combines detection and remediation with just-in-time training, incorporating security testing and training directly into the development process without breaking developer workflow. Symbiotic provides developers with immediate feedback on potential security vulnerabilities as they write code and subsequent remediation recommendations. With Symbiotic, security concerns are no longer an afterthought. Instead, they are considered a foundational part of the coding process. https://lnkd.in/e9CCNzQ8

LH Managing Partner Ben Lerer spoke with CNBC about consumer application layer AI companies we’re excited about, liquidity, and what VCs are tracking around the election. https://lnkd.in/eiyrmC9j