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AI in Motion: Mid-Year Review of 2024's Enterprise Innovations
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Jessica Leao
Partner at Decibel Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Jessica Leao is a Partner at Decibel in San Francisco, with a background that includes founding The 21 Fund and serving as Principal at Maverick Ventures. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and has experience in intellectual property law and forward deployed engineering at Palantir Technologies.
Leao's career highlights include founding her own fund, The 21 Fund, and her current role as a Partner at Decibel, where she focuses on investing in sectors like cybersecurity, digital health, and AI in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Decibel is an independent venture capital firm that provides resources to entrepreneurs.
Founder + General Partner
2020
The 21 Fund is a $2M angel/seed fund building and investing in the next generation of Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) startups. Selected Investments: Pocus - https://www.pocus.com/ Draftea - https://draftea.com/ Trunk Tools - https://trunktools.com/ Arc - https://www.joinarc.com/ Didero AI - https://www.didero.ai/ Mitra Chem - https://www.mitrachem.com/ Adaptive - https://www.adaptive.build/ Artyc - https://www.shipartyc.com/
The 21 Fund is an investment firm that builds and invests in the next generation of Stanford Graduate School of Business startup companies.
Principal
2021 - 2023
Invested in AI-native companies including developer tools, data engineering, and cybersecurity. Selected Investments: MosaicML (acq. by Databricks for $1.3B) - https://www.mosaicml.com/ Wild Moose - https://www.wildmoose.ai/ Comity AI - https://www.comity.ai/ Atomic Semi - https://atomicsemi.com/
Maverick Ventures is the venture arm of Maverick Capital and invests in early-stage healthcare and technology-driven businesses.
Forward Deployed Engineer
2018 - 2019
Focused primarily on product strategy efforts around Gotham's Titan Release. Was in the group internally known as R2D2.
Palantir Technologies is a software company that develops data analytics and data integration software solutions.
Raised $3,027,970,015.00 from ARK Investment Management and ARK Investment Management.
Intellectual Property
2016 - 2018
Worked with tech companies & entrepreneurs on intellectual property matters.
lKobre & Kim itigation-focused law firm .
Education
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The Declining Cost of Intelligence
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