Leigh Marie Braswell
VCPartner, Kleiner Perkins
AI infrastructure investor, ex-Scale AI and Founders Fund
Background
Leigh Marie Braswell is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins focusing on early-stage AI infrastructure and ML application startups. She previously invested at Founders Fund as a Principal, directing capital toward technical founders and deep tech startups. Before venture, she was an early engineer and first product manager at Scale AI, joining when the company was only three people. At Kleiner Perkins, she has backed Windsurf (acquired by Alphabet), Neon (acquired by Databricks), Nooks, Avoca, and Forge.
Investment Thesis
Partnering with the next generation of AI infrastructure and ML application founders — particularly those building tools and platforms that accelerate developer productivity and enterprise AI adoption.
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Based in: San Francisco, CA, USA (North America)