Sean Maier
Senior Associate at WestRiver Group
Greater Seattle Area
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Associate
2022 - Current
Investing in early-stage b2b technology companies in the Pacific Northwest
WestRiver Group is an investment firm providing integrated capital solutions to the global innovation economy.
Board Observer
2023
Transforming work by simplifying how human intelligence is shared and used
Groopit: The AI Problem-Solving Engine
Raised $6,800,000.00 from DataPower Ventures, Cercano Management, WestRiver Group, Tapas Capital and Cascade Seed Fund.
Board Observer
2022
Emmy-nominated audience experience platform designed to help storytellers in sports, news, and entertainment produce the most engaging content in the world with a fraction of the resources required by traditional graphics systems
Tagboard is a software platform aggregating social media content from multiple networks for end-users, brands and marketers.
Raised $20,900,000.00 from NBA Equity, Ryan Sports Ventures, Blue Star Innovation Partners, Singularity Capital and Greg Norman Group.
Board Observer
2022
Revolutionary flat panel speaker solutions that feature Bending Wave technology
Board Observer
2022 - 2024
Universal mobile ordering/payment platform and hardware agnostic self-serve POS solution that enables social purchasing and gifting, allowing users to pay for and send drinks to one another for on-premise consumption. Acquired by Cantaloupe (NASDAQ: CLTP)
CHEQ is a social payments platform that provides POS services, mobile orders, and peer to peer payments.
Raised $13,470,000.00 from Network.VC, The Yard Ventures, Alumni Ventures, WestRiver Group and Flamingo Capital.
Investment Banking Senior Associate
2021 - 2022
Technology sell-side and buy-side mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
Investment Banking Associate
2020 - 2021
Investment Banking Senior Analyst
2020 - 2020
Investment Banking Analyst
2018 - 2020
Intern
2017 - 2018
Early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise software
Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
Intern
2017 - 2018
AI / ML powered risk prediction platform for healthcare. Portfolio company of Ignition Partners