# Leah Culver

> Leah Culver is a seed investor at X (formerly Twitter) backing Winery. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [X (formerly Twitter)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/twitter)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/leahculver
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/leahculver
- Website: http://leahculver.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=13901499

Leah Culver is a seed investor at X (formerly Twitter) in San Francisco focused on Winery and Software. Leah Culver is the Senior Software Engineer at Twitter. She attended the University of Minnesota.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Leah Culver: work email, personal email, work phone, personal phone and socials. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-email/leah-culver?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Winery | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 20% |
| Communities | 1 | 20% |
| Consumer Goods | 1 | 20% |

10 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JustPaid | JustPaid is a financial platform that helps startups control their spending and gives them financial oversight. | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Maker Wine | Maker is a wine marketplace featuring premium wines in innovative formats, so you can bring it and drink it anywhere. Maker Wine was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Marin, California. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Gowalla | Gowalla builds social games played in the real world. | $4M | Seed | Jan 28, 2021 |  |
| Gowalla | Gowalla builds social games played in the real world. | $4M | Seed | Jan 28, 2021 |  |
| Elpha | Elpha is where women in tech to talk candidly online. Join Elpha to find support, connect personally and professionally with other women in the industry, make friends, build your network and search for jobs. Membership is free! | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 06, 2019 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Offline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/offline-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Niantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nianticlabs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Otherwise Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/otherwise-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Upside Partnership](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upside-partnership) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About X (formerly Twitter)

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington. X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.

5 contacts available at X (formerly Twitter).

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Shackleton | Product Head at OpenBack Integration | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-shackleton |
| Kayvon Beykpour | Head of Consumer Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kayvon-beykpour |
| Linda Yaccarino | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/linda-yaccarino |
| Martijn de Kuijper | Senior Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martijn-de-kuijper |
| Ryan Merl | Senior Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-merl |

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## FAQ

### What does Leah Culver invest in?

Leah Culver invests primarily in Winery, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Leah Culver's check size?

Leah Culver typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Leah Culver participates in.

### How do I contact Leah Culver?

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### When did Leah Culver last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Leah Culver closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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