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Joshua Maher
Fund Manager and Advisor at Seattle Investor Conference
United States
Overview
Joshua Maher is a Founding Partner at Maher Capital, where he specializes in investing in early-stage startups in sectors like Messaging, Real Estate/PropTech, and FinTech. With a background in leadership and strategic partnerships, he has also served as the Fund Manager and Advisor at the Seattle Angel Conference, showcasing his expertise in guiding and supporting emerging companies.
Throughout his career, Joshua has demonstrated a strong track record of founding and advising various organizations, such as Seattle Angel and TechCafe, while also providing mentorship and strategic guidance to startups through his roles at Galvanize Inc and Founder Institute.
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2004 - Current
Working with teams as a consultant, adviser, mentor, investor, or founder. Often working on product definition, capitalization and financial modeling, and operational execution and team building. Segments include B2B SaaS businesses in capital markets, real estate, & productivity software.
Fund Manager and Advisor
2013
Early stage investment fund that focuses on educational outreach to new early stage/angel investors as well as making quality investments in early stage companies. Investments include Booktrope, LaserMotive, and looking for the next one - have a great startup?
Seattle Angel Conference is a program to build new Angel Investors in the local Seattle startup ecosystem.
Content and Consulting services
2011 - 2022
Office 365 is disrupting how organizations use productivity software, from the largest enterprises to the solo-preneur, robust productivity software is available securely in the cloud. I am focused on the entire deployment experience, from discovery, to education, to purchase, to setup, to on-boarding, and trailing off at adoption. Using agile development processes and incremental deployments, our software is in a constant state of release forcing the documentation and on-boarding experience to accommodate an ever changing customer experience. I satisfy the dynamic needs of our services and customers, using real-time data and historical data to drive the development of the on-boarding experience. Using data sources including in-product behavioral actions, support calls, help content feedback and search terms, along with human and machine learning analysis, these data points are used to craft the in-product and help content experience. Beyond internal data collection and analytic platforms, this involves the use of tools such as Office, PowerBI, xmetal, dxstudio, github, optimizely, xml, markdown, rss, and visual studio.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Mentor and advisor
2016 - 2017
Advisor and mentor for member companies of Galvanize, offering guidance on topics such as enterprise business strategy, raising capital, financing innovation, business modeling, market positioning, strategic marketing, and product strategy.
Mentor
2016 - 2017
Advisor and mentor for participants in the Seattle Founder Institute program, offering guidance on topics such as enterprise business strategy, raising capital, financing innovation, business modeling, market positioning, strategic marketing, and product strategy.
Founder and President
2012 - 2017
Seattle Angel focuses on bringing more transparency to the fund raising process. We run an accelerator for angel investors where new investors get a chance to make their first angel investment with the help and guidance of experienced angels. To date we've trained over 200 angel investors! We also run the Seattle Angel Fund, an active angel fund where angel investors participate in a portion of the screening, diligence, and decision making with the help of an veteran angel investor and venture capitalist leading the charge. Our collective portfolio is well over 25 companies, funded by 200+ local angel investors. Building on this success we're working with investors and entrepreneurs in communities around the globe to launch similar programs. Let's build one in your city together!
Advisor
2015 - 2016
Advise on team, operations, financial model, business model, and product strategy.
Advisor
2014 - 2016
Advise investors and startups. Perform diligence on team, operations, financial models, business models, and product strategy.
Flight Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in SaaS and financial services.
Co-Founder and Managing editor
2012 - 2014
Co-founder and managing editor with a focus on financial services (Equities, Indexes, & Bitcoin).
Founder
2007 - 2014
Founded TechCafe (formerly Seattle Lunch 2.0). An award winning event focused on Seattle tech startups. I have worked with early stage companies to focus on hiring, fund raising, product launch, and marketing campaigns through TechCafe. Some are continuing as successful and others have failed. Merged with Seattle Angel in 2014
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