High Impact Growth Investing

Alibaba Group is an Internet-based business that includes online marketplaces that facilitate business-to-business international and domestic China trade, retail and payment platforms, shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services.

Duo Security provides a cloud-based two-factor authentication solution to enterprises worldwide. Based in Ann Arbor, Duo has pioneered an easy-to-use mobile-as-a-token solution, enabling authentication via push notification, SMS, phone call, biometrics, or hardware tokens.

Not only is the Lead Edge Capital team well-connected, but they're also ready and willing to roll up their sleeves and do whatever they can to help their portfolio companies.
- Dug Song, CEO of Duo

Toast is a tablet point-of-sale app for restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs, and other businesses in the food service and hospitality space based in Boston.

They have been one of our most engaged investors and are often one of the first phone calls I make to say “Hey I want to connect with someone who’s done X,” and that’s been tremendous. They’ve opened up doors within the restaurant ecosystem, whether customer intro’s or partners to collaborate with.
- Chris Comparato, CEO, Toast

Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a currency transfer business providing millions of consumers and small businesses cross border exchange at substantially lower costs & much faster speeds. Wise was founded in London in 2011 by Kristo Kaarmann & Taavet Hinikrus, who have developed a highly disruptive offering that disintermediates many of the fee layers that make up the legacy banking model.

Asana provides collaborative work management software worldwide. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, CA, Asana has tens of thousands of paying organizations and millions of users in over 195 countries leveraging the company’s web and mobile applications to better organize and manage their work. Asana completed its direct listing in September 2020.

Arrive Logistics is a transportation service provider proudly collaborating with shippers and carriers to deliver superior brokerage and transportation management services. With a combination of proprietary technology and a strong focus on customer service Arrive has grown rapidly since its founding in 2014.

Benchling is a software company which provides a platform for life sciences R&D. Benchling’s software is used by scientists around the world in academic labs at Harvard, Stanford and MIT as well as at companies like Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Zoetis, and Zymergen.

"Lead Edge’s LP network was highly differentiated from any of our other investors. It’s panned out for us in a number of different ways from executive recruiting to customer introductions for enterprise sales. Lead Edge team is top 1% in responsiveness."
- Sajith Wickramasekara, Co-founder & CEO, Benchling

Grafana is the leading solution for cloud monitoring, analytics, and data visualization. The company provides an open source and an enterprise layer, both of which can be integrated with dozens of vendors allowing customers to build custom dashboards. Based in New York, Grafana has been growing quickly with customers like Booking.com, eBay, Shell, and Uber.

Bumble is a women-first dating application and social community that creates empowering connections in love (Bumble Date), life (Bumble BFF), and work (Bumble Bizz). Bumble was founded in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, co-founder of Tinder. Bumble is part of the MagicLab family of companies, which also owns Badoo, an international dating app.

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service that provides restricted digital content from a range of record labels and artists. The company was founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006 and has a mixture of paying subscribers in addition to free listeners.

Founded in Berlin in 2011, Delivery Hero is a worldwide network of online food ordering sites, operating in restaurants all over the globe. TBrands include Delivery Hero, Mjam, Waimaichaoren, Hungry.dk, Pizza-Online.fi. Lieferheld, Pizza.de, TastyKhana.in, Yogiyo, PedidosYa, Click Delivery, PizzaPortal.pl, OnlinePizza.se, Foodarena.ch, and Hungryhouse.

Uber is changing the way the world moves by connecting riders and drivers through mobile apps. The rapidly growing company was founded in 2009 and is used in cities all around the world.