LAKEHOUSE VENTURES, LLC

Thesis

Lakehouse Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. The firm focuses on investing in founder-led companies that innovate products, services, and software essential to everyday life, particularly those where founders have a deep, personal understanding of the problems they are solving. Their investment strategy is "conviction-based," leading to a limited number of investments annually. They actively seek passionate, insightful founders committed to building sustainable businesses with diverse perspectives and a value for partnership, explicitly avoiding "trend-chasing" like crypto or AI for their own sake. Key focus sectors include consumer goods (personal care, food, beverages), healthcare (medical devices, mental health, wellness), fintech (payments, lending, wealth management), enterprise software (healthcare tech, real estate tech, higher education tech), hardware/IoT, and climate tech. Lakehouse Ventures primarily invests in the United States and often acts as a lead investor in equity rounds. While specific AUM is not disclosed, they are actively deploying funds, with Fund II being their current focus. Typical check sizes range from $100,000 to $2 million, with the firm providing capital, early-stage resources, network access, and empathetic support to help companies scale.

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