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Leigh Marie Braswell

Partner at Kleiner Perkins

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2023 - Current

    Partner to Codeium (Series B) and others in stealth

  • Board Director

    2024

  • Angel investor

    2020

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

  • Principal

    2021 - 2023

    Involved announced investments (they are hiring, ping me for details!): Arena, Atomic Vaults, Chronosphere, Codeium, Forge, Grit, Llama.xyz, Neon (Board observer), Paxos, Persona (Board observer), Tactic (Acquired)

  • 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

  • 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

  • Assistant Trader

    2015 - 2016

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

  • Counselor

    2014 - 2014

    Managed a group of 83 rising high school seniors holding research positions. Planned weekly social events with team of five other counselors and held nightly meetings to assist students.

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