Lee Edwards

General Partner @Root Ventures

San Francisco, CA, US
EMAILS
l•••••••@olin.edu
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+15•••••••92

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WORK HISTORY

Sep 2018 — Present

General Partner @Root Ventures

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San Francisco, CA, US

Investing at the Seed stage in “hard tech.” Like the very first Silicon Valley venture firms, we love companies where the primary risk is technical and the founders have technical backgrounds. We invest out of our $150M Fund with a typical initial check size of $1-3M, often leading rounds and taking board seats, but sometimes co-leading or following.Like my other partners at the firm, I love everything hard tech, but I have a particular interest in pure software (new tech in AI and machine learning), deploying computer vision to novel applications, software tools and services (devtools), that enable developers and other makers and creators. My partners all have engineering backgrounds in other areas and invest in areas they know and have built in before. Check out Avidan, Kane, Chrissy, and Emily\'s profiles to read more about them.

EDUCATION

2003 — 2007

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

B.S., Engineering - Systems Design

SKILLS

SubversionCustomer ServiceTrainingGitProject PlanningLeadership DevelopmentSpanishBilingual-SpanishTeam LeadershipLinuxStrategic PlanningGovernmentNonprofitsNon-ProfitsCrmJavascriptRecruitingMobile ApplicationsRobotProgram ManagementCssBoard DevelopmentRubyWeb DevelopmentMechanical EngineeringBudget ManagementPublic RelationsRuby on RailsMedia RelationsCommunity RelationsAgile MethodologiesMarketingManagementTeam BuildingProgram DevelopmentFundraisingSoftware DevelopmentPythonEvent PlanningCoaching

ABOUT LEE EDWARDS

NOTE: LinkedIn is a bad place to pitch me. Happy to take pitches over email or Twitter DM!Learn more about my investment area in Featured Posts, below. And learn more about me in one of the videos under Experience.I invest in engineers who are starting companies that tackle the hard problems in software - developer tools and services, software infrastructure, applied AI & ML, tooling for data scientists and engineers, computer vision, and anything else that takes a strong technical team to build.We invest $1-3M checks at the Seed/Pre-Seed/Post-Seed stage - any time we can be a lead/co-lead sized investor in a ~$1-5M round.

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