Leila Zegna

Leila Zegna serves as Co-Founding Partner at Kindred Capital. She also serves on Board of Mrs Wordsmith. She is also an Angel Investor. She also serves as Advisor & Investor at Unmade. She was a Board Member at GenapSys Inc. She is a Board Member of Portify. She is also a prolific angel investor, having backed dozens of fast-growth start-ups. She like her partner Tracy Doree, is 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, Zegna joined the founding team of GenapSys, a genomics start-up. that successfully raised $50 million in venture capital. Since 2011, Zegna 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.