Mark Leslie

Leslie Ventures. Co-founder, CEO Veritas Software. Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

📍 Portola Valley, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2011𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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PernixData optimizes storage for virtualized environments. By decoupling strategic storage performance and management functions from the underlying storage hardware, our software maximizes application performance, delivers predictable scale-out growth, and minimizes storage costs. Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by virtualization and storage experts and backed by industry luminaries in the software space. For more information, please visit www.pernixdata.com and follow us on Twitter @PernixData.
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2011
Board Member
Jun 2011
PernixData optimizes storage for virtualized environments. By decoupling strategic storage performance and management functions from the underlying storage hardware, our software maximizes application performance, delivers predictable scale-out growth, and minimizes storage costs. Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by virtualization and storage experts and backed by industry luminaries in the software space. For more information, please visit www.pernixdata.com and follow us on Twitter @PernixData.
2001
Managing General Partner
2001
Leslie Ventures is a private investment company focused on investing in managed funds. Investment areas include venture capital, private equity and hedge funds, Note that we do not do any direct investing or angel investing. Leslie Ventures was founded in 2001.
1989
Founder, Chairman, CEO
May 1989
Veritas Technologies is a leader in multi-cloud data management. Over 80,000 customers—including 87% of the Fortune Global 500—rely on us to help ensure the protection, recoverability and compliance of their data. Veritas has a reputation for reliability at scale, which delivers the resilience its customers need against the disruptions threatened by cyberattacks, like ransomware. No other vendor is able to match the ability of Veritas to execute, with support for 800+ data sources, 100+ operating systems and 1,400+ storage targets through a single, unified approach. Powered by our Cloud Scale Technology, Veritas is delivering today on its strategy for autonomous data management that reduces operational overhead while delivering greater value.