Investing Profile

Maaria Bajwa

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Principal at Sound Ventures
maariabajwa.comLos Angeles, California
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Current Investing Position
Sound Ventures Principal
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
6

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Maaria Bajwa's Investments On Record (5)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Sardine
Series BSep 2022$52M
$97M
Co-investors: Angela Strange (Andreessen Horowitz), Alex Immerman (Andreessen Horowitz), Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Rex Salisbury (Cambrian Ventures), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Jocelyn Cheng (Luno Expeditions), Anshu Sharma, Alex Adelman
Joy
Series ASep 2021$20M
$99M
Co-investors: Justin Waldron (Polychain Capital), Joel Cutler (General Catalyst), Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), Pete Flint (NFX), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures), Igor Ryabenkiy (Altair Capital Management), Brady Bohrmann (Avalon Ventures), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Kevin Mahaffey (SNR), Matthew Bellamy (Helium-3 Ventures), Alexia Bonatsos (Dream Machine), Rich Levandov (Avalon Ventures), Matt Bellamy, Louis Beryl, Eduardo Haber, Mark Pincus, Justin Timberlake, Stacy Brown-Philpot
XMTP
Series AAug 2021$20M
$25M
Co-investors: Nikil Viswanathan (Alchemy Ventures), Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Jason Warner (Redpoint Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Joseph Lau (Alchemy Ventures), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Cooper Turley (Variant (variant.fund)), Li Jin (Variant (variant.fund)), Fiona Kelly (Broadstone), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Ben Huh (Orange Fund (Orange DAO)), Joe Gerber (IDEO CoLab Ventures), Eamon Leonard (Broadstone), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Joe Lallouz (Ambush Capital), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Martin Green (HawksHead Capital), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Josh Williams (Form Capital), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Aaron Batalion (Batalion Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Paul Stamatiou, Chris Kurdziel, Jess Sloss, Michael Dunworth, Ethan Beard, Narendra Rocherolle, Shishir Mehrotra, Balaji Srinivasan, Fernando Martinelli, William Boebel, Tegan Kline, Reggie James, Ricky Engelberg, Joe Stump, Dan Romero, Stani Kulechov, Bobby Goodlatte, Michael Mignano, Courtney Guertin, Anthony Pompliano, Scott Belsky
Zapper
Series AMay 2021$15M
$17M
Co-investors: Vance Spencer (Framework Ventures), Stani Kulechov, Mariano Conti, Michael Dunworth
Lolli
SeedMay 2020$3M
Seed RoundMay 2020$3M
$31M
Co-investors: Angela Tran (Version One Ventures), Scott Friend (Bain Capital Ventures), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Reed Duchscher (Night Ventures), Jeff Fluhr (Craft Ventures), Serena Williams (Serena Ventures), Alex Chung (Curious Capital), Zach Weinberg (Curie.Bio), Nat Turner (Operator Partners), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Josh Richards (REMUS Capital), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Pir Granoff, Baron Davis, Logan Paul, Ian Borthwick, Casey Neistat, Brian Sugar, Gokul Rajaram, Abe Burns

Maaria Bajwa's Experience

Principal Sound Ventures2017 - Present
Associate Sound Ventures2017 - Present
Senior Associate ICG Advisors, LLC2011 - 2017
Managing Director B. Fresh Productions2011 - 2016
Marketing Intern Cooking.com2010 - 2011
Head of Production JazzReggae Festival2009 - 2011
Film Intern Davie Brown Entertainment2009 - 2009
Creative and Content Editor National Students News Service2009 - 2009
Account Manager Daily Bruin2008 - 2009

Maaria Bajwa's Education

University of California, Los Angeles B.A. Business-Economics, English