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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 / Leader Ventures, LLC
Leader Ventures, LLC
venture manager, reported GAV $5.3M across 2 vehicles
Importance
4
low
Active deployment
0
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
44
elevated
Freshness
99
high
Research priority
1
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 350 RHODE ISLAND, SUITE 240, San Francisco, CA, 94103adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 4159568230adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Dec 20, 2017
- Private funds reported
- 2 (2 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $5.3Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 4159568230adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
no observed deals yet
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
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
2 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leader Equity, LLC - Series B | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $2.6M Dec 20, 2017 | 7 | unknown | unknown |
| Leader Equity, LLC - Series a | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $2.6M Dec 20, 2017 | 9 | 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
3 current, 3 departed
Brian Raymond Best
PartnerManaging Director · since Jan 1, 2008
Patrick Lawrence Gordan
PartnerExecutive Managing Director · since Jun 1, 2005
Robert Wallace Molke
PartnerManaging Director · since Jun 1, 2005
3 departed (kept with end dates)
- Meridee Anne Moore · Director · Jun 1, 2005 to Nov 26, 2012 Inference
- Nikhil Gadia · Director · Jan 1, 2012 to Nov 26, 2012 Inference
- Rachel Mary Steinman · Director · Jan 1, 2012 to Nov 26, 2012 Inference
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
6 dated events
- Nov 26, 2012Meridee Anne Moore (Director) no longer on Schedule A of Leader Ventures, LLC
- Nov 26, 2012Nikhil Gadia (Director) no longer on Schedule A of Leader Ventures, LLC
- Nov 26, 2012Rachel Mary Steinman (Director) no longer on Schedule A of Leader Ventures, LLC
- Mar 30, 2012Leader Ventures, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 30, 2012Leader Equity, LLC - Series a first reported on Form ADV by Leader Ventures, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $4,249,514Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactLeader Equity, LLC - Series aSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 30, 2012Leader Equity, LLC - Series B first reported on Form ADV by Leader Ventures, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $3,898,671Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactLeader Equity, LLC - Series BSEC 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 (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $5.3M across 2 vehicles
Evidence
24 observations from 2 sources