About Maiden Lane
Maiden Lane is a venture capital firm founded in 2014. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Nov 2017, Maiden Lane has invested in 129 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and High Tech. Most recently it led the $1.8M Seed round of Headout along with Haystack. This round also saw participation from Dreamit and other investors.
Overall, Maiden Lane portfolio has seen 5 unicorns, 2 IPOs and 38 acquisitions including key companies like Poshmark, Cabify and Klaviyo. A lot of funds co-invest with Maiden Lane, with names like CSC Upshot Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.
Maiden Lane has team of 2 people including 2 partners.
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Maiden Lane's Investments by Stage
Maiden Lane has made 14 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.91M, 5 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $3.38M and 1 investment in Angel stage with an average round size of $1.1M.Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
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Seed | 14 |
Series A | 5 |
Angel | 1 |
Maiden Lane's Investments by Sector
Maiden Lane has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Consumer, Enterprise Applications, Travel and Hospitality Tech, EdTech and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 122 Tech companies, 71 Consumer (B2C) companies, 63 Enterprise (B2B) companies and at least 40 companies focusing on Software.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Sector | No. of Investments |
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Consumer | 11 |
Enterprise Applications | 7 |
Travel and Hospitality Tech | 4 |
EdTech | 3 |
High Tech | 3 |
Others | 18 |
Maiden Lane's Investments by Geography
Maiden Lane has made most investments in United States (19), followed by Estonia where it has made 1 investment.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Country | No. of Investments |
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United States | 19 |
Estonia | 1 |
Maiden Lane's recent investments
Here are the most recent investments by Maiden Lane:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Nov 21, 2017 | United States | Series A | $5M | BlueRun Ventures [+6] | |
Jun 08, 2017 | United States | Seed | $2M | [+4] | |
Apr 01, 2016 | United States | Seed | $2.7M | [+6] | |
Feb 25, 2016 | United States | Seed | $2.5M | Accomplice [+19] | |
Feb 10, 2016 | United States | Series A | $5.6M | Runa Capital [+10] |
Unicorns in Maiden Lane's Portfolio
Here is a list of unicorns in Maiden Lane's portfolio:
ÃØÃÜÑо¿Ëù Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
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75 | Developer of blockchain-based platform building crypto-financial infrastructure | 2014 | Montreal | Series C | mhkudvz | ||
72 | Client workflow process automation software | 2013 | San Francisco | Series E | jclxhxq | ||
67 | AI based platform for employee background verification | 2014 | San Francisco | Series E | hkmb{vs | ||
76 | Cloud based marketing optimization platform for deep linking | 2014 | Palo Alto | Series F | zwc{qna | ||
81 | App-based platform offering ride-hailing services | 2011 | Madrid | Series E | svk{nk{ |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Maiden Lane's Portfolio
Here are Maiden Lane's portfolio companies that went public:
Acquired companies in Maiden Lane's Portfolio
Here are Maiden Lane's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Team profile of Maiden Lane
Maiden Lane has a team of 2 membersÌýincluding 2 PartnersÌýlocated in United States. Maiden Lane's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Maiden Lane
Over the past 14 years, 178 investors have co-invested in Maiden Lane's portfolio companies.
- Invested before Maiden Lane:Ìý500 Global, and 14 others have invested in rounds before Maiden Lane. There are 2 companies where 500 Global has invested before Maiden Lane and 2 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Maiden Lane.
- Top Co-investors of Maiden Lane:Ìý102 investors entered a company along with Maiden Lane. These include investors like CSC Upshot Ventures (3 companies).
- Invested after Maiden Lane:ÌýA total of 60 investors have invested in Maiden Lane's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Dick Costolo (2 companies), Caterina Fake (1 company) and Sarah Tavel (1 company).

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