Leah Edwards
Investor
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2021 - Current
University Lecturer
2017
Leadership and Innovation Lecturer in UC Berkeley Engineering, University of North Carolina's Semester in Silicon Valley and Stanford Engineering.
Current Board Member and previous Advisor
2014
Namecoach is a platform that provides mispronunciation, gender pronoun communication, and audio name pronunciation solutions.
Raised $11,000,000.00 from 640 Oxford, Harbor Street Ventures, Engage, Network.VC, Forefront Venture Partners, Transcend Network, Authentic Ventures, Bisk Ventures, GTMfund and Tech Square Ventures.
Executive Coach and Entrepreneur Coach
2012
Certified Coach assisting executives seeking career growth or success with innovation projects. Also Coach to startup founders at all stages, from launch to scaling.
Angel Investor and Advisor
2012
Investor, coach and advisor for startups
Investment Director
2022 - 2024
Lighter Capital is the pioneer in revenue-based funding.
Lighter Capital offers tech entrepreneurs with access to non-dilutive financing to help grow their companies without giving up equity.
Raised $246,022,000.00 from i80 | Group, Invest Victoria, ATLAS SP Partners, Apollo, iPartners, i80 | Group, National Australia Bank (NAB), Silicon Valley Bank, Voyager Capital and Credit Suisse.
Partner
2020 - 2022
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm.
Advisory Board Member
2019 - 2021
Director of Education Outreach
2016 - 2016
Interim program to better integrate Autodesk's Education group with Universities, Schools and other Education Partners to support experiential, collaborative learning about innovation. Led the Outreach group in this transition, including Marketing, Channel Training Partners, Nonprofit Partnerships, Digital Design Challenges, Events, PR, Social Media and Internal Communications.
HSMWorks technology with its industry leading software and cloud services for manufacturing.
Executive Director, Ctr for Entrepreneurial Studies
2012 - 2016
Led a team to design learning experiences around innovation. Advised faculty of 50+ entrepreneurship and investment electives and directed the Stanford Venture Studio, a startup collaboration space for 200 graduate students. Developed cross-campus partnerships and expanded relationships with investors and industry experts, in addition to increasing female student participation by over 400%. Experiential learning innovation included both creating startup experiences as well as expanding nnovation internships in existing companies.