Dasha Maggio

Co-COO at Felicis

Co-COO
2013 - Current
Felicis Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park. In only nine years of institutional history, we've backed 29 companies valued at $1B or more, and our portfolio has captured $100B+ in market value. We back iconic companies reinventing core markets (e.g. Opendoor, Flexport, Shopify, Adyen), as well as those creating frontier markets (e.g. Ginkgo Bioworks, Recursion Pharma, Cruise). More than 80 Felicis portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public, including Adyen, Shopify, Fitbit, Pluralsight, Rovio, Dollar Shave Club, Cruise, Meraki (acquired by Cisco), Twitch (acquired by Amazon), Brightroll (acquired by Yahoo), and Dropcam (acquired by Google).

Advisory Council Member
2018 - 2020
Bring Change to Mind (BC2M) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging dialogue about mental health, and to raising awareness, understanding, and empathy. Actress and activist Glenn Close co-founded Bring Change to Mind in 2010 after her sister, Jessie Close, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and her nephew, Calen Pick, with schizoaffective disorder. Every individual who speaks out inspires another. And another. That’s how we’ll end the stigma around mental illness. That’s how we’ll Bring Change to Mind.

Director, sweetpress
2011 - 2012
sweetgreen creates experiences at the intersection of passion and purpose by providing healthy, sustainably sourced food. At the end of 2012, the chain had 15 locations in DC, MD, VA and PA (now 20+), and has since raised over $100M in venture capital financing. I developed, launched and managed sweetpress, Washington, DC's first line of bottled, organic cold-pressed juices. My areas of direct responsibility included: - Concept creation - Go-to-market strategy - Product development - Manufacturing set-up - Commercialization and roll-out to six stores - Management of sales and marketing initiatives - P&L responsibility - Internal alignment and external stakeholder initiatives

Associate Consultant
2010 - 2011
Axia is a Boston-based management & strategy consulting firm focused on helping business leaders generate sustained profit improvement for reinvestment in growth. It was acquired by Accenture in 2015. As an Associate Consultant, I worked on four projects across four different industries: - Manufacturing: supported establishment of Program Management Office to coordinate three product launches involving 16 functional, international groups; led data analysis and stakeholder interviews - Food & Beverage: conducted statistical analysis to identify high-value distribution opportunities for select products, presented findings to key client stakeholders, and created sales collateral provided directly to field force - Pharma: helped manage project yielding $90MM in advertising procurement cost savings opportunities via data collection, analysis, and international team member interviews - CPG: helped integrate Procurement function of an acquisition into parent company (our client); led data collection and analysis; conducted stakeholder interviews and drafted presentations identifying integration-related savings