Leyla Seka
Founder of Black Venture Institute
Berkeley, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Chair
2021
Partner
2019 - 2021
https://www.operatorcollective.com/
Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of Operator LPs.
Co-Founder
2020
https://www.blckvc.org/black-venture-institute
Member Board of Trustees
2022
https://museumca.org/
Board Member
2019
https://funginstitute.berkeley.edu/
Board of Directors
2019 - 2025
https://girlswhocode.com/
Board of Directors
2019 - 2024
SetSail is an ai-powered platform.
Raised $37,000,000.00 from Insight Partners, Neythri Futures Fund, Team8 Capital, Operator Collective and Wing Venture Capital.
COO
2021 - 2023
Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management platform used by companies to handle every type of contract workflow.
Raised $334,000,000.00 from Franklin Templeton, Bond, Accel, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, Sequoia Capital, Haystack, Lux Capital, Arrive and Emergence.
Board Member
2019 - 2021
https://www.proofpoint.com/us
Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Raised $885,500,000.00 from KG Investments, Bridgescale Partners, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Benchmark, Meritech Capital Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Inventures Group, RRE Ventures, Icon Ventures and DAG Ventures.
Advisory Board Member
2015 - 2019