LM

Leigh Marie Braswell

Partner at Kleiner Perkins

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $150,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2023

    Partner to Windsurf (Series B), Nooks (Series B), Convoke (Seed) and others (3 Seed, 2 Series A) in stealth/unannounced

2024

  • Board Observer

    2024

2023 - 2025

  • Board Director

    2023 - 2025

    Formerly known as Codeium & Exafunction. My first investment at KP.

2021 - 2025

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2025

2020 - 2025

  • Angel Investor

    2020 - 2025

    Work primarily with early-stage AI/crypto companies & technical founders. Example investments (they are hiring, ping me for details!): Alquist Robotics, Ambience Healthcare, Claypot.ai (Acquired), Fountain, Modal, Monad.xyz, Opal Camera, Rosebud.ai, Succinct Labs.

2021 - 2023

  • Principal

    2021 - 2023

    Involved announced investments: Neon (Series A - Board observer), Persona (Series C - Board observer), Arena, Atomic Vaults, Chronosphere, Codeium, Forge, Grit (Acquired), Llama.xyz (Acquired), Paxos, Tactic (Acquired)

2021 - 2023

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2023

2017 - 2021

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2021

    First PM at Scale- built the 3D Sensor Fusion (LiDAR + RADAR + camera) APIs as well as other products to advance the development of AI/ML applications. Multiple patents issued.

  • Software Engineer

    2017 - 2017

    Full-stack eng, sub-10 employee, helping take Scale from 0 to 1

2016 - 2017

  • Associate Product Manager (APM)

    2017 - 2017

    Chrome Web Platform team -- worked on multiple projects in various stages of the product lifecycle (mostly early) involving Chrome data, Polymer educational material, ads sustainability, and browser interventions.

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2016 - 2017

    Research and Machine Intelligence Team -- improved model for entity sentiment using deep learning techniques

2015 - 2016

  • Assistant Trader

    2015 - 2016

    Worked on International ETF, ADR & fixed income desks. Wrote trading tools in Python and VBA.