Leslie Goldman is General Partner and Co-founder of The Artemis Fund, a venture fund focused on high growth, tech-enabled, seed stage companies founded and led by mission-driven women. Prior to launching The Artemis Fund, Leslie served as Managing Director with Major, Lindsey & Africa’s (MLA) In-House Practice Group. In that capacity, she was retained by companies to recruit C-Suite legal executives, and collaborated with MLA’s affiliated executive search firm Allegis Partners, to identify diverse candidates for board service. Before joining MLA, Leslie spent 25 years as a corporate attorney, with her last 10 years of practice as Vice-President and General Counsel of Fisher HealthCare, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Leslie currently serves as a board observer of Unest and CNote, two high growth fintech companies that achieved a markup in valuation in the funding round occurring immediately after investment by the Artemis Fund. She serves on the board of the Houston Angel Network, NACD Utah and Texas TriCities, the Egyptian Theatre Company, and the Yale Club of Houston.  She also serves as an Advisory Board member of Deep Isolation, a growth stage company that has a novel solution for the disposal of nuclear waste, and Smartgurlz, a STEM education and entertainment company that creates products to address the diversity gap in STEM. Leslie is an active member of the Launch Syndicate (Jason Calacanis), the Launch Fund and the Launch accelerator program in Silicon Valley, a founding member of PandoLabs and Rehabilitation Health in Park City, a Strategic Advisor and Special LP to the Rebel Fund (a YCombinator Fund), and a member of the Investment Committee of AVG Funds, Blue Ivy Ventures III and IV.  She has directly invested in over 50 early stage companies and 11 venture funds in addition to The Artemis Fund.

Passionate about driving impact and sharing data on the superior ROI of diverse teams, Leslie is a frequent speaker on the triple bottom line (diversity + impact + returns) and the need for additional ESG focus in the governance of companies at all stages in the continuum.  She is also a frequent panelist and judge at tech conferences around the U.S.

Leslie holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.