Leila is a founding partner at Kindred Capital, a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2015. Kindred is pioneering so-called equitable venture, where they share the profit of the fund (the carried income) with every entrepreneur they invest in - turning founders into partners in every sense of the word.

Leila is on the board of companies including Polywork, Pollen, and LabGenius, and serves as senior advisory board member to Entrepreneur First. She is both an investor and an entrepreneur, with over a decade of operating experience in technology businesses, including cofounding her own health technology business in Silicon Valley.

Leila is a mathematician by training with a first class degree from Yale University and a Harvard MBA.