Leila Zegna

Leila Zegna General Information

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Ms. Leila Zegna is a Co-Founder & serves as General Partner at Kindred Capital. She served as Board Member at Puraffinity and Ori Biotech. She serves as Board Observer at Infinitopes. She co-founded and served as Board Member at Pollen. She serves as Board Member at Gaia, Nomia, and Sure. She also served as Board Member at Find Circles and Mrs. Wordsmith. She is also an Angel Investor. She also served as Advisor and Investor at Unmade and served as Board Member at Polywork. She was a Board Member at GenapSys Inc. She is a Board Member of Pave. She is also a prolific angel investor, having backed dozens of fast-growth start-ups. She likes her partner Tracy Doree an entrepreneur-turned-VC. She began her career at Bain & Co in New York and left in 2007 to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School. After that, she moved straight to Silicon Valley, where she joined Plum District, a Kleiner Perkins and General Catalyst-backed daily deals company, as general manager. After her stint at Plum District, she joined the founding team of GenapSys, a genomics start-up. that successfully raised $50 million in venture capital. Since 2011, she has also been an angel investor and has invested in numerous start-ups in the US and UK, including Matterport, Thread, Knyttan, Pamono, Lystable, Memrise, ASAP54, Enki, Say Media, Grovo, WorkLife, Bloom & Wild, Tech Will Save Us, ID.me, Virtusize, and BloomThat. She also serves as Board Observer at LabGenius.