Jéssica Leão

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States9 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Partner at Decibel, focusing on early-stage tech investments.
  • Founder of a $2M angel fund for Stanford startups.
  • Former forward deployed engineer at Palantir.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a venture capital expert with a strong focus on tech infrastructure and AI/ML investments.

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About

Partner at Decibel investing in technical founders at the earliest stages. Focus on tech infrastructure, both software and hardware (dev tools, data infra, AI/ML, cyber, and semis). Previously a forward deployed engineer at Palantir. Yale/Stanford MBA grad. Born & lived in Brazil for most of my life, US-based today.

Experience

9 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
6 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Decibel partners

Partner

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

The 21 fund

Founder + General Partner

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Stanford, California, United States

  • The 21 Fund is a $2M angel/seed fund building and investing in the next generation of Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) startups.
  • Selected Investments:
  • Federato - https://www.federato.ai/
  • Draftea - https://draftea.com/
  • Trunk Tools - https://trunktools.com/
  • Didero AI - https://www.didero.ai/
  • Mitra Chem - https://www.mitrachem.com/

Maverick ventures

Principal

Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Selected Investments:
  • MosaicML (acq. by Databricks for $1.3B) - https://www.mosaicml.com/
  • Wild Moose - https://www.wildmoose.ai/
  • Comity AI - https://www.comity.ai/
  • Atomic Semi - https://atomicsemi.com/

Palantir technologies

Forward Deployed Engineer

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr

  • Focused primarily on product strategy efforts around Gotham's Titan Release. Was in the group internally known as R2D2.

Kobre & kim

Intellectual Property

Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs

  • Worked with tech companies & entrepreneurs on intellectual property.

Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Yale University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with Distinction — American Studies & Comp Sci Technology Track

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