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Leila Rastegar Zegna

General Partner at Kindred Capital VC

London, England

Overview 

Leila Rastegar Zegna is the Founding General Partner at Kindred Capital in London, known for her expertise in growth strategies and start-ups. With an MBA from Harvard Business School and experience in board director roles at various companies, she specializes in venture capital investments in sectors like Digital Health and DeepTech. She has successfully established herself as a prominent figure in the venture capital industry, particularly focusing on early-stage investments and serving on the boards of multiple innovative companies. Leila's leadership at Kindred Capital showcases her strategic acumen and commitment to supporting diverse founders and emerging markets.

Work Experience 

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Kindred Capital VC

  • Founding General Partner

    2015 - Current

    Kindred is an early stage venture capital fund based in London pioneering a new model where we share the profit of the fund (the carried income) with every entrepreneur we invest in - turning founders into partners in every sense of the word. We have led the earliest rounds into some of Europe's most exciting companies, including Paddle, RobCo, Cradle Bio, FiveAI, LabGenius, Gaia, Gravity Sketch, Ori, M3ter, Hofy, Flagstone, and others.

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Cradle

  • Board Director

    2021

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RobCo

  • Board Director

    2022

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Lottie

  • Board Director

    2021

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Gaia

  • Board Director

    2020

    Gaia combines reproductive health data with financial technology to make IVF treatments more accessible, affordable, and personal.

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LabGenius

  • Board Director

    2017

    LabGenius is building a platform to discover revolutionary medicines using machine learning.

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Boston Children's Hospital

  • Trust Board Member

    2021

    Boston Children’s Hospital is the #1 ranked pediatric hospital by U.S. News & World Report — for the 8th year in a row. Our family has been personally touched by the extraordinary dedication of the researchers, physicians, and experts at Boston Children's Hospital. Supporting children's health and rare disease research is a life long mission for myself and my family, and it's an honour to serve on the BCH Trust Board.

Briarpatch Pediatrics is a pediatric center that provides health care services to children.

childrenshospital.org
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Eleven Therapeutics

  • Board Member

    2021

    Developing the future of RNAi therapeutics, combining synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and the programmable nature of nucleic acids.

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Ori Biotech

  • Board Member

    2019

    Ori is an innovator in Cell and Gene Therapy with a proprietary, flexible manufacturing platform that can enable widespread access to lifesaving treatments.

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Nomio

  • Board Director

    2020

    Nomio transforms signed legal contracts into an intelligent format. Explore contract data with the power of a structured database.

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