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Leah Solivan      

Founder & CEO of TaskRabbit.com; General Partner at Fuel Capital

For over 20 years, Leah Solivan has devoted her career to building and scaling technology products that have improved the lives of millions of people around the globe.

Leah is currently a General Partner at Fuel Capital, where she invests in early-stage startups across a variety of sectors including consumer technology, hardware, education, marketplaces, and retail. She’s passionate about finding founders and teams who are taking on world-changing ideas, and providing the support they need to maximize their potential.

Leah relates so well to founders because she is one herself. She created one of the most widely recognized new consumer technology brands of the past decade with TaskRabbit, the pioneering on-demand marketplace company she founded in 2008. As TaskRabbit’s CEO for eight years, Leah scaled the company into an international business with operations in 44 cities and more than $50 million in venture capital funding. In 2016, Leah transitioned into the role of executive chairwoman, and in 2017 oversaw TaskRabbit’s successful sale to IKEA, the multinational home decor corporation.

Prior to founding TaskRabbit, Leah began her career as a software engineer at IBM, where she worked for seven years on products including Lotus Notes and Domino. She earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sweet Briar College, where she has served on the Board of Directors.

Proud of her Latina heritage, Leah is devoted to increasing diversity in technology and business. She has been a frequent speaker on topics such as entrepreneurship, the future of work, and women in technology at events such as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and Tina Brown’s Women in the World Summit. Leah’s achievements have been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Time, and Fast Company named her one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business.”

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TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque to serve as Sweet Briar College’s commencement speaker
SWEET BRIAR — Leah Solivan Busque will deliver the keynote address during Sweet Briar College’s 107th Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 14, 2016. Busque graduated magna cum laude from Sweet Briar in 2001, earning a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science, and is serving on the Board of Directors for a second time.

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