Maia Bittner
Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures,
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Perpetual Fintech Intern
2024 - Current
Podcast host
Investment Partner
2022
Pre-Seed and Seed stage capital for companies founded by women. We support ambitious founders with the "X Factor" - the insight and drive to build the next billion-dollar company and are one of the most active funds investing in companies founded by women.
Member, Board of Trustees
2020
Managing General Partner
2017
We are a group of Olin College alumni that believe in the strength of founders from Olin College. Our mission is to support and share in the creation and ongoing success of these Olin Startups. https://www.parcelb.vc/
Parcel B is an investment collective of Olin alumni and community member investors who believe in the mission of Olin College.
miscellaneous
2018
Chime is the leading mobile financial services company, offering fee free access to your money, early access to your paycheck, and a host of other features to improve your financial fitness. Chime acquired Pinch in September 2018.
Chime is a financial technology company that offers mobile banking services.
Raised $2,292,603,117.00 from Vantage Legacy Capital.
Sequoia Capital Scout
2016 - 2022
Seed stage investor through the Scouts program.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Cofounder
2016 - 2018
We're building financial inclusion and stability, starting with improving millennials' credit scores.
Pinch makes it easy to build its clients' credit history just by paying their rent.
Raised $1,830,000.00 from Varsha Rao, Collaborative Fund, Parcel B, Axel Investments, Homebrew and CSC Upshot.
Cofounder & CTO
2012 - 2016
Rocksbox is the best way for women to try and purchase everyday jewelry that they love. Rocksbox was acquired by Signet, the largest seller of diamond jewelry in the world including retail storefront brands Zales and Jared, to expand their customer base to the "self-purchasing woman" I built the first version of Rocksbox's consumer-facing website and, much more extensively, our custom admin site used to manage all of our customers, shipments, products, coupons, gifts, subscriptions, etc. I built and managed the engineering and product team as CTO for two years. Team included in-house and remote engineers and designers. I acted as VP of Operations to design and build in-house fulfillment operation. My final title was VP of Customer Lifetime, responsible for online/offline customer experiences (measured through NPS), retention/churn rates, referral rates, customer research and customer service team.
Rocksbox is a jewelry membership service transforming the way women discover and buy jewelry.
Raised $10,200,000.00 from KEC Ventures, Outlier Ventures, Matrix, Eastward Capital Partners, SignalFire, Hone Capital, CSC Upshot, The Perkins Fund, OPT Ventures and Yan-David Erlich.
Cofounder
2011 - 2012
Led front-end design and development for The Hikery. The Hikery enables users to join and create hike experiences within the Hikery network. The product generalizes the online/offline process of going hiking, facilitates the interactions involved with planning a hike and allows people to connect with new and existing friends while exploring new places.
Software Engineer
2011 - 2012
Built software to help clients quote and sell products using the web. Became an expert in XSL-T and quoting engines to transform XML documents into beautiful, printed proposals.
Pierce Washington is an eBusiness consulting firm founded in 2005. We help our clients better quote and sell via the web.