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How to make history with LLMs & other generative models
Talks about Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI startups and Developer tooling platforms
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Leigh Marie Braswell
Partner at Kleiner Perkins
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Leigh Marie Braswell is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in mathematics and computer science from MIT and experience at top companies like Google and Founders Fund. Notable achievements include leading investments in companies like Codeium and Modal Labs, focusing on sectors such as Web3/Crypto and AI.
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Partner to Codeium (Series B) and others in stealth
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Board Director
2024
Codeium provides an AI-powered coding platform that maximizes developer productivity.
Raised $243,000,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst and Greenoaks.
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)
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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
Scale AI provides a data-oriented platform that assists in the development of AI applications.
Raised $2,602,620,000.00 from WCM Investment Management, Meta, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, NVIDIA, Nat Friedman, Thrive Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.
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
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
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.
The Research Science Institute is a global summer research program for high school students.
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
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Product Management at a Startup 101 Talk Notes
Talks about Slush conference, tactical company building and product management
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Overview & Applications of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Talks about Github's Copilot, Large Language Models (LLMs) and OpenAI Codex
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Startup Opportunities in Machine Learning Infrastructure
Talks about machine learning applications, ML infrastructure companies and challenges in scaling ML