Leslie Busick

About me

The short version Hi, I'm Leslie. 2x healthcare founder and former "finance girly" originally from CA, currently in NYC.

The longer version I started in finance then left to start my first company at 26: a DTC women's health platform. It didn't work, but we took the lessons and applied them into a second company: a B2B SaaS platform offering white-label AI and telehealth to clinics. Both were crazy rides. I had a lot of fun, suffered even more, and learned a few things along the way.

Now I advise, angel invest, build things on the side, and try to be useful to early stage founders.

Companies founded

$10M

Raised

$2M

Sales · 6 months

Years operating

Career + running companies

2024 – 2026

Stealth

Co-Founder

B2B SaaS providing white-label AI and telehealth to clinics
0 → $2M+ in sales in 6 months
Raised from top VCs across rounds that closed in just a couple of days
Landed large enterprise contracts

2020 – 2023

Odela

Founder

DTC women's health platform. Think Hims, but for menopause and sexual health
Didn't find PMF. What we learned became the foundation for the next company

2016 – 2020

Before that: Investment banking (TMT M&A @ Centerview), then a generalist @ KKR.

Advising + investing

Some tech, some AI, some neither. All early stage.

🌱 Ag Climate Tech

Ag climate tech company tackling agriculture's biggest input costs via a subsurface irrigation system resulting in a 70% water and energy reduction, plus 20% yield gain on crops.

My role: Early investor + advisor on product and GTM. Helped launch their carbon credits strategy.

👩‍💻 AI Dev Tools

AI dev tools company building code review infrastructure for the AI coding agent era. Codifies what engineers know into enforceable rules that catch bad AI-generated code before it ships.

My role: Advisor on GTM and ICP refinement.

💼 SMB PE

Small PE firm focused on buying service-oriented SMBs and growing them by layering in tech, operational rigor, and a clear growth playbook.

My role: Carried advisor. Surface acquisition targets, open my network, help shape pitch and strategy.

Side projects + tinkering just for fun

I ship constantly, including outside of work, because I can't not. I genuinely love solving problems and tend to build for problems me or the people around me personally feel. These are some things I've built, am building, or am thinking about. Mostly for myself or friends. Poke around, feedback welcome!

Fabled

Live

Whimsy AI book club that tells you your reading aura, surfaces new books, and generates discussion questions.

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Unhinged

Private beta

AI compatibility layer and matchmaker that thinks about fit the way a smart friend would, and surfaces matches the swipe-driven apps miss.

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Agent Office

Open source

Pixel-art dashboard where my Claude agents show up as little characters working in a tiny office, so I can see what they're all doing at a glance.

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Trova

Live

Wishlist app that saves items from any store in one place, watches for sales, and hunts down coupon codes before you buy.

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Rummikub

Live

My family's fave game, on the go! The classic tile game rebuilt for browser (mobile friendly) in a single HTML file so you can play anytime, anywhere.

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Orbit

Personal tool

Agentic personal CRM I built for myself on Airtable plus the Claude API to manage relationships the way a great chief of staff would.

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Thinking + writing

Essays on how I think, operating, building, and the things I've gotten wrong along the way.

Find me on Substack! Field notes from building companies, essays, opinions, AI, introspection, and a little of this and that sprinkled in.

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Other things I love

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Let's talk

If you’re working on something interesting, I advise and angel invest in a handful of founders. So please reach out if you want to connect!

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