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Leigh Marie Braswell

Partner, Kleiner Perkins

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Leigh Marie Braswell is a venture capital investor at Kleiner Perkins who brings unusually hands-on technical experience as an early engineer and first product manager at Scale AI, giving her deep expertise in data labeling, ML infrastructure, and the realities of deploying machine learning in production. She's known for her "thinking in bets" approach to venture decisions, drawing from her competitive math background and poker frameworks to make probabilistic investment choices, while focusing heavily on connecting founders with operators and customers rather than just providing capital. Leigh Marie Braswell is a venture capital investor at Kleiner Perkins who brings unusually hands-on technical experience as an early engineer and first product manager at Scale AI, giving her deep expertise in data labeling, ML infrastructure, and the realities of deploying machine learning in production. She's known for her "thinking in bets" approach to venture decisions, drawing from her competitive math background and poker frameworks to make probabilistic investment choices, while focusing heavily on connecting founders with operators and customers rather than just providing capital.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
AI
Consumer
Enterprise
FinTech
Health

Investment details

Avg check size$500K - $75M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
Asia-Pacific
India
Europe
Canada
LatAm
Israel
ANZ