Term Sheet Next: Lerer Hippeau makes its first senior venture hire with Ron Zori

Ron Zori’s first brush with venture capital came during his freshman year at Columbia University, when he went to the Mercer Hotel in SoHo for coffee. As Zori tells it, he just happened to strike up a conversation with someone at a table nearby, who just happened to be Lukasz Gadowski, one of the founders of the brand-new startup Delivery Hero. Gadowski ended up introducing Zori to his lead investor, Kite Ventures’ Edward Shenderovich, who hired Zori out of college to support him in investing in companies like Dataminr, Lyft, and Plated.