Leslie Goldman is general partner and cofounder of The Artemis Fund, a venture fund focused on high-growth, tech-enabled seed- and Series A-stage companies founded and led by women.

Prior to launching The Artemis Fund, Leslie served as managing director with Major, Lindsey & Africa’s (MLA’s) 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 member of Houston Angel Network, NACD Utah Chapter, NACD Texas TriCities Chapter, the Egyptian Theatre Company in Park City, and the Yale Club of Houston, and as a board observer to UNest and CNote. 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; SmartGurlz, a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and entertainment company that creates products to address the diversity gap in STEM; and on the planning committee for the NACD Texas TriCities Chapter. Leslie is an active member of the Launch Syndicate in Silicon Valley; a founding member of Rehabilitation Health in Park City, UT; a strategic advisor and special LP to the Rebel Fund (a Y Combinator Fund); and a member of the Investment Committee of AVG Funds, Blue Ivy Ventures III and IV. She has directly invested in over 45 early-stage companies and 11 venture funds in addition to The Artemis Fund.

Passionate about driving impact and sharing data on the superior return on investment of diverse teams, Leslie is a frequent speaker on the triple bottom line obtained from gender diversity in innovation, in venture capital, and in the C-Suite of companies at all stages on the continuum. She is also a frequent panelist and judge at tech conferences around the United States.

Leslie holds a BA from Yale University, an MA from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law.