Leah Culver

Leah Culver (born 1982 or 1983) is a computer programmer, startup founder, and angel investor.

Education Culver started as an art major at the University of Minnesota, but switched majors and earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science in 2006.

After graduating, she worked at the startups iLoop Mobile and Instructables.

Pownce In June 2007, she co-founded Pownce, with Digg's cofounder Kevin Rose and Digg's creative director Daniel Burka. described as "Twitter meets Napster". Convore pivoted into Grove, a chat service for workgroups.

Breaker Culver was CTO of Breaker, a content-discovery platform for podcasts, which she co-founded with Erik Berlin in 2016. In January 2021, Culver and the Breaker team joined Twitter to help build Twitter Spaces. and Gowalla, a former Foursquare competitor turned augmented reality social application.

Personal life Culver is from Minnesota. She resides in San Francisco, California with her pug Mr. Wiggles. the pink Painted Lady, for $3.55 million, while making the home more climate-friendly with the direction of architect David Armour.

Recognition Culver was on the cover of MIT Technology Review in July 2008, and was among Girl Geek X's 30 Female CTOs to Watch list in 2019.