Leslie Feinzaig

About Leslie Feinzaig

Leslie Feinzaig is the Founder and General Partner at Graham & Walker, an early stage venture fund backing pre-consensus founders and ideas that break the mold, whose mission is to change the face of public markets by backing a new guard of founders and CEOs. Prior to launching the fund, Ms. Feinzaig was a 2x startup exec with 8- and 10- figure exits who started her career under the tutelage of HBS Professor Clayton Christensen, author of the seminal theory of disruptive innovation. In 2017 Ms. Feinzaig founded the Female Founders Alliance, the largest community of its kind in America, which serves as Graham & Walker\'s proprietary deal flow machine. In 2024, she launched VCs for Harris, the bipartisan viral pledge that united 850 VCs, including a who\'s who of Silicon Valley according to NPR. Ms. Feinzaig is a regular contributor at Fortune Magazine and Fast Company, and publishes the popular Substack, “Venture with Leslie”. Born and raised in Costa Rica, Ms. Feinzaig moved to America with a full scholarship to Harvard Business School. She has been since named one of Forbes Magazine\'s Most Powerful Women from Central America, Worth Magazine’s Worthy 100, Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40 and Women of Influence Awards, and Seattle Magazine\'s Most Influential People. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two young daughters.

Experience

1. Founder & General Partner

   Graham & Walker

   Oct 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Graham & Walker is an early stage venture fund backing pre-consensus founders and ideas that break the mold. We invest in pre-seed and seed, North-America based tech companies. Learn more and submit your pitch at

Education

• Harvard Business School

  MBA, Business

  2005 — 2007

• The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

  BSc, Industrial Relations

  1999 — 2001