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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Social Leverage
Social Leverage
This firm files as 2 advisers on socialleverage.com: Social Leverage Advisors, LLC. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
Social Leverage is a seed stage venture capital firm founded in 2009, investing in exceptional founders building the future of finance and vertical AI.
venture manager, reported GAV $0.2M across 1 vehicles
Importance
13
low
Active deployment
0
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
63
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
2
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Coronado, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 1307 YNEZ PLACE, Coronado, CA, 92118adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 602-315-9966adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Apr 10, 2015
- Private funds reported
- 6 (6 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $40.8Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business email
- info@socialleverage.comsocialleverage.compublished by the subject
- business phone
- 602-315-9966adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
no observed deals yet
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, fintech, consumer, crypto
- Stages
- seed
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
- Self-described
- venture capital
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors: no observed deals yet
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 0
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Leverage Ea, LLC | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $205,000 Apr 10, 2015 | 7 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
9 current, 0 departed
Gary Benitt
Managing partnerManaging Partner
Howard Lindzon
Managing partnerFounder, Managing Partner
Matt Ober
Managing partnerManaging Partner
TOM Peterson
Managing partnerFounder, Managing Partner
Gary David Benitt
PartnerMember · since Feb 1, 2015
Howard Andrew Lindzon
PartnerMember · since Oct 1, 2012
Thomas Grant Peterson
PartnerMember · since Oct 1, 2012
Kordell Theadford
Platform and operationsVice President of Finance & Chief Compliance Officer
Evan Rapoport
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Investments on record
0 edges, 0 companies, 0 partner-attributed
No investment on record yet. Edges arrive from the firm’s portfolio page, financing announcements, and Form D board seats.
Co-investors
0 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
No co-investor relationship yet: these are derived only from rounds and portfolio listings the graph has seen both investors on.
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
7 dated events
- Mar 31, 2015Social Leverage first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2015Social Leverage Ea, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Social Leverage (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $205,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSocial Leverage Ea, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2015Social Leverage Capital Fund I, LP first reported on Form ADV by Social Leverage (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $10,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSocial Leverage Capital Fund I, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2015Social Leverage Fx, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Social Leverage (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $300,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSocial Leverage Fx, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2015Social Leverage, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Social Leverage (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $10,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSocial Leverage, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2015Social Leverage Capital Fund II, LP first reported on Form ADV by Social Leverage (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $20,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSocial Leverage Capital Fund II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2015Social Leverage Fx2, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Social Leverage (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $251,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSocial Leverage Fx2, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $0.2M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
31 observations from 2 sources