Lee Edwards
General Partner at Root Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLee Edwards is a General Partner at Root Ventures with 15 years of engineering and executive experience investing $1–3M seed checks in technically ambitious software companies—particularly in developer tools, software infrastructure, applied AI/ML, and computer vision. A former wartime CTO who led engineering, product, data and design at Teespring and scaled teams and platforms at SideTour and Groupon, he pairs operator instincts with board-level governance as Vice Chair and Investment Committee Chair on Olin College’s Board. He favors founders with deep technical backgrounds and often leads rounds, taking active board roles to de-risk hard technical bets. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare blend of hands-on product engineering, startup scaling experience, and venture leadership focused on the hardest problems in software.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Engineering - Systems Design, B.S. Engineering - Systems Design at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Spanish, English
Github Skills (39)
shieldsio9
cli9
video-call8
cli-app8
video-chat8
archived8
screensharing8
trading7
finance7
chat7
cloudflare-dns7
react6
backend5
cloudflare-workers5
bots5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rootvc/rootvc-octopus-wiki
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
ledwards/asteroid
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:54 commits in 1 month
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