Leah Busque
General Partner @ Fuel Capital
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Leah Busque is a seed investor at Fuel Capital in San Francisco Bay Area focused on E-Commerce and EdTech. Leah Busque is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of the Board of Directors at TaskRabit since April 2016. A pioneer of the sharing economy, Leah launched TaskRabbit in 2008 as a way to help people connect and get more done, every day. Since that time, she has been named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” raised $50million in venture funding, and expanded the company internationally. Prior to founding TaskRabbit, Leah earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sweet Briar College and worked as a Software Engineer at IBM. Leah currently lives in San Mateo, CA with her husband, daughter, and cuddly black lab, Emerson.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
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Industries Leah Busque invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 2 (67%)
- EdTech 1 (33%)
- Jewelry 1 (33%)
- Education 1 (33%)
- Furniture 1 (33%)
Investments
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| WeeCare empowers caregivers to create sustainable home daycare businesses while making affordable, quality childcare accessible to all families. The WeeCare platform provides caregivers, educators and parentprenuers the tools and support needed to start a licensed home daycare, fill to capacity and effortlessly manage operations so they can focuson caregiving. Families using WeeCare have access to safe, affordable and curriculum-based daycare. | Seed / Aug 02, 2018 | ||
| StyleRow is a design company that focuses on streamlining the design process for designers and creating an experience for brands and showrooms to work together, all in one place. It features an online-based portal that allows design professionals to scale their businesses.The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in California, UnitedStates. | $620K / Seed / Jun 01, 2018 | ||
| Yellowsmith is a community of makers working together to make great jewelry. Each design is created by an undiscovered designer, shaped by our global community, and made in our workshop. Yellowsmith jewelry is sold exclusively through our website and select retail locations.DESIGNED BY YOU. We source designs from designers of all experiencelevels across the globe. Have an idea for an original piece? Submit it. The next collection could be yours. SHAPED BY OUR COMMUNITY. Our community, made up of designers, creatives and believers, come together to vote, comment and give feedback on every design we make. MADE BY YELLOWSMITH. Yellowsmith makes winning designs in the our workshop and brings the jewelry to you online and through Yellowsmith retailers. | $850K / Seed / Aug 20, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About Fuel Capital
Fuel Capital is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to being more than a source of capital - we want to be true confidantes to every founder in the Fuel family. We stand in our founder’s corner, not their kitchen. We leverage our resources, connections, experience, and expertise to carve a shortcut for them - so their energy is spent on buildingthe future, instead of knocking on doors. Fuel was founded in 2013 by Chris Howard. Leah Solivan, founder of TaskRabbit, joined as a General Partner in 2017. We invests in consumer, business software and cloud/ infrastructure companies. With a strong track record - including investments in 8 unicorns (Convoy, Flexport, Figma, Pacaso, Lattice, Highspot, thredUP, and Weave), several recently acquired companies (CTRL-Labs - acquired by Facebook, CoreOS - acquired by RedHat, Nervana - acquired by Intel, Hightower - acquired by View the Space), as well as numerous up-and-coming companies - Fuel has rightfully earned the reputation of being one of Silicon Valley’s leading seed funds.
Fuel Capital Contacts
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Leah Busque
General Partner
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Leah Solivan
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What does Leah Busque invest in?
Leah Busque invests primarily in E-Commerce, EdTech and Jewelry startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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