# Leslie Ventures

> Leslie Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portola Valley, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leslie-ventures

Leslie Ventures is a VC fund in Portola Valley focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. A private investment company.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 29% |
| Software | 4 | 24% |
| Medical Device | 3 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 18% |
| Robotics | 2 | 12% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 41% |
| Seed | 4 | 24% |
| Series B | 3 | 18% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 59% |
| India | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mark Leslie | Managing Director | 33 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-leslie |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SimpliContract | SimpliContract is an AI and SaaS-based contract lifecycle management platform for authoring and managing contracts. SimpliContract helps companies in increasing revenue, lowering risk, improve compliance, lowering expenses, and increasing productivity. SimpliContract is on a mission to use artificial intelligence to democratize contracting andbuild powerful contract management processes. It supports in-house legal, sales, finance, and procurement teams throughout the contract lifecycle, enabling successful communication between internal and external players. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| SimpliContract | SimpliContract is an AI and SaaS-based contract lifecycle management platform for authoring and managing contracts. SimpliContract helps companies in increasing revenue, lowering risk, improve compliance, lowering expenses, and increasing productivity. SimpliContract is on a mission to use artificial intelligence to democratize contracting andbuild powerful contract management processes. It supports in-house legal, sales, finance, and procurement teams throughout the contract lifecycle, enabling successful communication between internal and external players. | $3.5M | Series A | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| Archera | Archera is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud cost optimization, reserved instances, dev ops, and finance. Its software automates purchasing, renewing and exchanging EC2 RIs and CRIs. | $7M | Series A | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Archera | Archera is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of cloud cost optimization, reserved instances, dev ops, and finance. Its software automates purchasing, renewing and exchanging EC2 RIs and CRIs. | $7M | Series A | Sep 29, 2021 |  |
| Elevian | Elevian’s founders discovered circulating blood factors that regulate aging, including GDF11, which broadly stimulate regeneration of brain, heart, pancreas, muscle, and other tissues. Elevian is developing therapeutics that stimulate regenerative capacity, to treat and prevent age-related disease. | $40M | Series A | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Ahana | Ahana was founded as the first company focused on bringing PrestoDB-based ad hoc analytics offerings to market and working to foster growth and evangelize the Presto community. While Presto is in large-scale production deployment at large internet companies like Facebook, Uber, and Twitter, Ahana’s mission is to simplify ad hoc analytics fororganizations of all shapes and sizes. We are an “All Remote” company, from the start. | $20M | Series A | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| Osso VR | Osso VR is a surgical training and assessment platform that uses advanced virtual reality to train and assess medical personnel. Their product offers realistic hand-based interactions in an immersive training environment containing cutting-edge procedures and devices. | $27M | Series B | Jul 07, 2021 |  |
| Kleeen Software | No-code platform using AI and best practices to create UI design, UX workflows, and front-end code | $3.8M | Seed | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Zadar Labs | Zadar Labs is developing next generation imaging radar platforms. Our vision is to empower perception systems with compact, high performance, and low-cost imaging radar. We don't just build black boxes, we collaborate with our partners to build the optimal solution for their application. We see a future where every system that perceives theworld, does so better with a Zadar radar. | $5.6M | Seed | Jan 29, 2021 |  |
| Zadar Labs | Zadar Labs is developing next generation imaging radar platforms. Our vision is to empower perception systems with compact, high performance, and low-cost imaging radar. We don't just build black boxes, we collaborate with our partners to build the optimal solution for their application. We see a future where every system that perceives theworld, does so better with a Zadar radar. |  | Seed | Oct 08, 2020 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capital One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-one-growth-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Emergent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergent-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Foster Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foster-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Leslie Ventures invest in?

Leslie Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Medical Device startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Leslie Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Leslie Ventures?

The team at Leslie Ventures includes Mark Leslie (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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