Leah Culver

Leah Culver, born in 1982 or 1983, is an American computer programmer, startup founder and angel investor. She began as an art major at the University of Minnesota before switching to computer science and graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 2006. She is a co-author of a Python library for the OAuth 1.0 authentication standard and a co-author of oEmbed. After working at the startups iLoop Mobile and Instructables, she co-founded the micro-blogging service Pownce in 2007 with Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka of Digg, programming it herself; it was described as Twitter meets Napster, and Six Apart acquired it in December 2008. She then co-founded the real-time chat application Convore, backed by Y Combinator, which became the workgroup chat service Grove. In 2016 she co-founded the podcast discovery platform Breaker and served as its chief technology officer, and in January 2021 the Breaker team joined Twitter to help build Twitter Spaces. She has also made angel investments in technology and consumer companies.