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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 Windsurf/Codeium (Series B), Nooks (Series B), and others (3 Seed, 1 Series A) in stealth/unannounced
Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
Board Observer
2024
Board Director
2024
Formerly known as Codeium & Exafunction. My first investment at KP.
Board Observer
2021
Neon is an open-source database company that offers a serverless Postgres platform that allows developers to build applications.
Raised $129,600,000.00 from Notable Capital, Abstract, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Menlo Ventures and General Catalyst.
Angel Investor
2020
Work primarily with early-stage AI/crypto companies & technical founders. Example investments (they are hiring, ping me for details!): Alquist Robotics, Ambience Healthcare, Claypot.ai (Acquired), Fountain, Modal, Monad.xyz, Opal Camera, Rosebud.ai, Succinct Labs.
Principal
2021 - 2023
Involved announced investments: Neon (Series A - Board observer), Persona (Series C - Board observer), Arena, Atomic Vaults, Chronosphere, Codeium, Forge, Grit (Acquired), Llama.xyz (Acquired), Paxos, Tactic (Acquired)
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building revolutionary technologies.
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
Persona is an identity platform that helps businesses verify customer identities.
Raised $217,518,750.00 from Coatue, Index Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Founders Fund and Bond.
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.
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