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Julie Maples

Managing Director at FYRFLY Venture Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Julie Maples is a Seed-Stage Venture Capitalist with a focus on investing in DeepTech, Retail, AR/VR, SaaS, and Enterprise sectors. She is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of FYRFLY Venture Partners, and has made significant investments in companies like Mobi Systems, Rosalyn.ai, Pley, and Tango Card. Highlights of Julie's career include founding and co-chairing the V Foundation Wine Celebration and being a founding member of the Swiss Blockchain Federation, showcasing her leadership in both philanthropic and innovative technology initiatives. Her role as an investor and board member in various companies demonstrates her expertise in strategic partnerships, corporate development, and portfolio management within the startup ecosystem.

Work Experience 

  • Investor and Director

    2019 - Current

Mobi Systems provides technologies enhance web and mobile products for companies in the mobility.

Raised $26,466,061.00 from FYRFLY Venture Partners.

  • Investor and Board Observer

    2021

  • Investor and Board Member

    2020

Rosalyn.ai is a software company that provides remote exam proctoring to educational institutions and certification programs.

Raised $2,200,000.00 from FYRFLY Venture Partners and Alchemist Accelerator.

  • Seed Investor

    2023

Edgevana is a global marketplace for automating data centre procurement process.

  • Co-Founder and Managing Director

    2015

    Technology Early Stage Fund with a focus in "data and intelligence at the core". The coming 5 to 10 years will present unprecedented opportunity in data driven computing. With increased acceleration, we see three key success factors for entrepreneurs and investors: Data amplified by intelligence layers, mobility as a platform and immediate global access for growth. The increased interplay of these drivers will transform literally all industries and drive the next wave of productivity. Current profit pools will be dis-aggregated and new dominant players will emerge. We believe that the best opportunities will be seeded in the coming years and will create an excellent opportunity to capture value for both entrepreneurs and investors.

FYRFLY Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on data and intelligence.

  • Founder and Co-Chair

    1999

  • Seed Investor

    2015

Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.

Raised $132,300,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Dave Liu, Vopak, Paul Albright, Scott Stephenson, Sandbox Insurtech Ventures, Richard Braddock, Alumni Ventures, Prologis Ventures and Zachary Karabell.

  • Investor and Director

    2013

  • Investor

    2012

Trace is a software platform that automatically edits and delivers personalized moments for each player.

Raised $68,000,000.00 from Lakestar, NextGen Venture Partners, Pelion Venture Partners and Toba Capital.

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