Leigh Marie Braswell

Partner

Leigh Marie Braswell

Partner

Leigh Marie Braswell is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins, where she backs founders building the next generation of infrastructure and AI applications. She has invested in and sits on the boards of Avoca and Poetic, and has also backed companies including Nooks, Applied Compute, and Engram. Her notable past investments include Windsurf, Neon, and Chronosphere.

Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins in 2023, Leigh Marie began her investing career at Founders Fund. Before that, she was an early engineer and the first product manager at Scale AI, where she built and later led product development for its 3D annotation products, used by autonomous vehicle, robotics, and AR/VR companies as a core part of their machine learning workflows.

Originally from Alabama, Leigh Marie graduated from MIT. Outside of work, she loves playing poker, long-distance running, and scuba diving.

Cities lived?
Alabama, Boston, SF
First job?
Competitive math tutor

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