John Neamonitis is the Founder and General Partner of Lakehouse Ventures, a New York-based early-stage firm he started in 2016, and previously co-founded WorkOf, a curated marketplace for independent furniture and lighting designers. He focuses on being an early institutional backer with concentrated, hands-on checks around $250K while maintaining a small, focused fund size that emphasizes alignment with founders over asset-gathering scale.
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CPG / D2C, Health, Fintech, Consumer, Proptech
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Pre-Seed - Seed
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$100K - $1M
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Lakehouse Ventures is a solo-GP fund that leads pre-seed rounds for a tightly concentrated portfolio of companies solving urgent, everyday problems, with founder John Neamonitis serving as the first institutional backer and taking board seats from the start. The fund has an unusually high share of investments in women and diverse founders for its size, while providing access to a deep network of operator partners rather than traditional VCs, and maintains a strong New York-rooted presence in the local startup ecosystem.
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