Leah Culver


Leah Culver is a computer programmer and startup founder.
Culver is a 2006 computer science graduate of the University of Minnesota. After graduating, she worked at the start ups iLoop Mobile and Instructables. In 2007, she co-founded the micro-blogging site Pownce, acquired by Six Apart in December 2008. She left Six Apart in February 2010. She co-founded Convore, focused on real time chat in 2011. Convore pivoted into Grove, a chat service for workgroups, which she sold to Revolution Systems in October 2012. That year, Culver was featured in the documentary The Startup Kids. From 2013 to 2016, Culver worked as an engineer at Dropbox. Leah is currently CTO of Breaker, which she co-founded with Erik Berlin in December 2016. She has authored OAuth and oEmbed API specifications. In 2019, Culver was a part of Girl Geek X's 30 Female CTOs to Watch list.
Culver was named among the Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 by Fast Company magazine in November 2008.

Personal Life

While working at Instructables, she received attention for etching company logos onto her laptop, which was funded by that ad space. Culver owns a Painted lady house as of February 2020. She also enjoys running.