13 Facts About Leah Culver

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

Leah Culver is a co-author of a Python library for the open-standard authentication OAuth 1.0 and a co-author of OEmbed.

Leah Culver was funded with investments from Culver's friends and family, rather than venture capitalists.

The website was shut down after the acquisition, but Leah Culver implemented the technology she built for Pownce in TypePad and TypePad Motion.

Convore pivoted into Grove, a chat service for workgroups, which Leah Culver says was sold to Revolution Systems in October 2012.

Leah Culver went on to work as an engineer at Dropbox, where she and her team created a copy of a fictional Image compression algorithm called Pied Piper from the television series Silicon Valley.

Leah Culver was CTO of Breaker, a content-discovery platform for podcasts, which she co-founded with Erik Berlin in 2016.

Leah Culver was on the cover of MIT Technology Review in July 2008, was named among the Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 by Fast Company magazine in November 2008, was featured in the documentary The Startup Kids in 2012, and was among Girl Geek X's 30 Female CTOs to Watch list in 2019.

Leah Culver has invested in technology such as Maker, a woman-led and minority-owned canned wine company, and Gowalla, a former Foursquare competitor turned augmented reality social application.

In January 2020, Leah Culver purchased 714 Steiner Street, the pink Painted Lady, for $3.55 million, well over its asking price.

Leah Culver purchased the home with the intention of renovating the property to its 130-year-old glory, while making the home more climate-friendly with the direction of architect David Armour.

Leah Culver created Instagram and Twitter profiles to share the progress on the historic building.

Leah Culver underestimated the amount of work required and in May 2022 put the house up for sale at the original purchase price.