What is it like working with Leadout?

We will bring positive energy. Founding a company is intense. It is hard. We want our interactions with you to be helpful and move the company forward. And we believe positive energy is essential to company building.

We will be an extension of your team, and you will get all of our team. When Leadout invests, the entire firm gets behind the investment. We help in whatever way we can. That means assistance with future fundraising, customer introductions, recruiting and connections to our networks. We are your strategic sounding board and accountability partner.

What support do you provide to founders

We support our teams with our reputations and with connection to our networks for talent, contemporaneous knowledge and customer introductions. We are your strategic sounding board leveraging our operating experience to help with product distribution and go to market strategy, organizational design and development.

Core to Leadout’s approach is the belief that you are only as good as your team. We are a team, a partnership, an operating advisory network, and a stellar group of LPs composed of gritty, diverse and resilient founders.

Our community includes the amazing founders we’ve backed as Leadout: Pavilion, BlockSpaces, R-Zero, Near Space Labs, theCut, CloudSmith, Momentum, Axiom Cloud, DDB and, as angels: Figma, Beauty For All (ipsy), Matterport, Envoy, Lithic, UnitQ to name a few.

Our community also includes investors and operators from world class companies and funds such as Accolade, Apple, Amazon, Asana, Atento, BFA, Block, Carbon Health, Chime, Dropbox, Figma, Foundry Group, Goldman Sachs, Google, JPMorgan, Match, Microsoft, Nextdoor, Nvidia, Pinterest, Pivotal Ventures, Protocol Labs, Roblox, Slack, Solana, Stripe, VMware, Wealthfront, and Wix, as well as sports, government, research and academia.

What's your firm's focus?

We love products with strong network effects, unique data sets, organic and viral growth characteristics, great unit economics, and long-term defensibility.

What kind of people do you invest in?

We prioritize founders who have a unique insight about a market often born of the founding team’s lived experience and ability to build empathy with the market and customer on whose behalf they are innovating.

What's your ideal investment size?

We look to lead, co-lead or be a significant investor in your pre-seed or seed round. We believe fundamentally in the power of teamwork. We love to collaborate and can help build and augment your syndicate of firms and angels.