Leigh Marie Braswell
InvestorPartner at Kleiner Perkins
San Francisco Bay Area
Writes $500K β $75M checks Β· typically $25M
About
Leigh Marie Braswell is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins focused on AI and infrastructure companies. She began her career as a software engineer at Scale, where she was one of the first ten employees and became its first product manager, and has also worked in trading at Jane Street and on ML at Google, alongside angel investing. She competed in math olympiads and was ranked among the top competitive female mathematicians in the U.S. in high school.
Invests in
AI & Machine LearningConsumerData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechHealthtech
Experience
- Kleiner PerkinsPartnercurrent2023 β present
- EngramBoard Observercurrent2026 β present
- Applied ComputeBoard Observercurrent2026 β present
- PoeticBoard Directorcurrent2025 β present
- AvocaBoard Directorcurrent2025 β present
- NooksBoard Observercurrent2024 β present
- ReevoBoard Observercurrent2025 β present
- BunBoard Director2025
- WindsurfBoard Director2023 β 2025
- NeonBoard Observer2021 β 2025
- PrivateAngel Investor2020 β 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- Founders FundPrincipal2021 β 2023
- PersonaBoard Observer2021 β 2023
- Scale AIProduct Manager2017 β 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- Scale AISoftware Engineer2017San Francisco, California
- GoogleAssociate Product Manager (APM)2017San Francisco, California
- GoogleMachine Learning Engineer2016 β 2017Mountain View, CA
- Jane StreetAssistant Trader2015 β 2016Greater New York City Area
- Research Science Institute (RSI)Counselor2014MIT
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMath with Computer Science, Humanities Concentration in Economics
- Phillips Exeter AcademyHigh School
Skills & more
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Android SDKCSSJavaScriptLaTeXLeisure TravelMicrosoft WordResearchMicrosoft OfficeHTMLjQueryD3MeteorLanguages English
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Same school
Also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology849
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Shared employers
Also worked at Applied Compute5
Also worked at Reevo2
Also worked at Founders Fund32
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Investments
Led
ChronosphereNeonPersona
Investor
Applied ComputeArena AIAvocaBunChronosphereConvokeEngramExafunctionGritNeonNooksPersonaPoeticReevoTrovyWindsurf
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