Lead Edge Capital

Venture Capital

Growth equity firm investing in high-growth B2B software and technology companies.

Profile

Founded
2009
Headquarters
New York, US
Investments
14
Companies
8

Capital

Total Deployed
$1.5B
Lead Rounds
3

Portfolio

8 companies
Bird Rides $1.4B
Closed Santa Monica, US

Electric scooter and micromobility company that pioneered shared dockless electric scooters in cities. Bird deployed fleets of app-unlocked e-scooters and e-bikes across hundreds of cities globally. Became the fastest company in history to reach a $1B valuation. After going public via SPAC in 2021, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2023. Assets sold to Third Lane Mobility in April 2024.

Toast $900M
Public Boston, US

Cloud-based restaurant management platform providing point-of-sale, digital ordering, payroll, and team management solutions. Serves over 120,000 restaurant locations across the US. Founded in Boston in 2012, Toast went public in September 2021.

Benchling $412M
Private San Francisco, US

Benchling is a cloud-based life sciences R&D platform that helps biotech and pharmaceutical companies manage experiments, track data, and accelerate research and development. The platform replaces physical lab notebooks and spreadsheets with collaborative, AI-ready digital tools used by over 1,200 customers worldwide.

Amplitude $336M
Public San Francisco, US

Amplitude is a product analytics platform that helps companies understand user behavior to build better digital products. Originally incubated at Y Combinator (W12) as a voice-to-text app called Sonalight, the founders pivoted to analytics after realizing the internal tools they built were more valuable than the app itself. The company pioneered the product intelligence category and went public via direct listing on NASDAQ in September 2021.

Algolia $334M
Private San Francisco, US

Search-as-a-service platform that provides hosted APIs enabling developers to build fast, relevant search and discovery experiences across websites and applications.

Asana $213M
Public San Francisco, US

Asana is a work management platform that helps teams plan, organize, and track projects and tasks. Founded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and former Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein, the company serves over 75,000 customers.

Weave $146M
Public Lehi, US

All-in-one customer communication and payments platform for small and medium-sized healthcare businesses, serving dental, optometry, veterinary, and medical practices.

Pepper $100M
Private

End-to-end technology platform for independent food distributors. Pepper digitizes ordering, sales, payments, and financial operations for over 500 distributors representing $30B+ in annual gross merchandise volume, with 100,000+ operators using the platform. Founded by the team that launched Uber Eats.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.