SierraMaya360

SierraMaya360 is a full-service early stage venture capital firm. Our team is comprised of industry veterans with an extensive network of contacts in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, New York, Boston, Charlotte and Silicon Beach. Our experience, network and expertise gives us a critical advantage to identify innovative opportunities long before they bubble up as global trends. Our firm was founded to leverage the success of angel fund Sierra Maya Ventures, which won Top Newcomer to Venture Capital 2014- North America by Wealth and Finance International Magazine and has been consistently ranked as a top-tier Angel/Seed fund.

Amish Shah

Co-Founder, Founding Partner and Managing Partner

Past deals in Alaska

Pick1

Seed Round in 2013
While whoever doing polls/surveys focus on how to create the questions, Pick1 focuses on how to leverage the answers: social insights crunched to deliver actionable data. A Brand using Pick1 gets an highly customizable, flexible and integrated solution that connects seamlessly with third party technologies (SalesForce, MailChimp, Lithium), enabling the brand to process this information in an automated way: a "survey/marketing intelligence suite". The result of this is that: a) the Brand doesn't need to go through the pain of integrating a polling tool into its own properties, because Pick1 is taking care of that via API, b) any other solution would be not providing any kind of context data anyway, which Pick1 instead provides. The Brand can then leverage this further layer of data to create clusters of users, matching them with a more specific content/advertising to generate higher engagement and conversion.

FND

Seed Round in 2013
FND allows the user to navigate, browse, and find the contents their searching for through the mobile phone. Navigate the most popular categories (starting with Dining and Movies) with the swipe and tap of the thumb by way of contextually relevant menus and the results are more useful and actionable.

Challenged

Seed Round in 2015
Make daily challenges with friends, celebrities, and companies with a focus on social awareness.

Mattermark

Seed Round in 2014
Mattermark is a data platform for venture capital companies to quantify signals of growing and potentially lucrative start-ups. Mattermark offers deal intelligence to the world's leading dealmakers - venture capital, private equity, corporate development, sales, and marketing professionals looking to take a data-driven approach to deal sourcing and due diligence. The company was launched in 2012 as a data platform for VCs with hopes of becoming the go-to software for firms to use when quantifying signals of growing and potentially lucrative startups.

TopFan

Seed Round in 2015
TopFan is a platform for building communities. Influencers and organizations use the white-labeled technology to build social content distribution networks that they own and control. Learn more by watching this 3-minute introductory video: http://topfan.com/video

Skycatch, Inc.

Venture Round in 2014
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

HealthCrowd

Seed Round in 2013
HealthCrowd is a unified, end-to-end engagement platform for healthcare. It helps healthcare organizations unify, automate, and optimize multimodal communications to deliver personalized patient engagement at scale. By fusing healthcare domain expertise with ad analytics, HealthCrowd delivers a solution that was built from the ground up to engage patients with the triple aim of improved quality, clinical, and financial outcomes for clients. HealthCrowd is a Springboard Enterprises Life Sciences 2012 company, Launch Silicon Valley 2012 company, Alchemist Accelerator 2013 company, and FutureMed 2013 honorable mention.

MAZ

Venture Round in 2016
MAZ is the content logistics company. Brands like Bloomberg, Hearst, Conde Nast, Fast Company and Harvard Business Review trust their system to process, curate, publish and monetize their content to audiences across mobile, social media, TV apps, voice assistants and more. Since 2010, MAZ has powered content logistics for over 1,000 companies; processing and distributing over half a billion pieces of content to millions of users across 200+ countries. The company has been selected for the INC 30 Under 30 and Entrepreneur’s “Best Entrepreneurial Companies”.

Full Color Games, Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Full Color Games, Inc. designs and develops Full Color(R) Gaming System that creates card and casino based gaming software. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Sphere

Seed Round in 2012
Sphere is pioneering how 360º content gets recorded, distributed, and viewed. The company has 20 pending patents that range from smartphone–based mapping and tracking techniques to bandwidth–sensitive streaming technology for 360º video. Sphere has licensed its software development kit to 60+ brands in 2012, including Samsung, Sony, HomeAway, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Viator. The company is on track for its Sphere app to be pre-loaded on 67 million devices in 1Q14. Sphere is a team of 10, with most of their team comprised of engineers. Their offices are located in San Francisco, California.

HoneyBook

Series B in 2015
HoneyBook, Inc. provides a business software for wedding planners and related vendors. It offers HoneyBook, a platform that connects clients, vendors, and event planners. The company’s HoneyBook enables vendors to create proposals, get feedback from their clients online, complete business agreements, and receive payments. HoneyBook, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kanvas Labs

Seed Round in 2013
Kanvas Labs, Inc. develops a mobile social networking platform that enables users to make social photo stories around real world experiences. Its products include Kanvas that allows users to create sharable content with pictures, texts, stickers and sound. Kanvas Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Tracks Media, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. As of August 31, 2015, Kanvas Labs, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of AOL Inc.

LiquidSpace, Inc.

Series B in 2014
LiquidSpace, Inc. provides mobile application for sharing office network. Its offers LiquidSpace, a mobile/web application connecting people seeking workspace with venues offering workspaces to share. Its application connects desk-seeking employees with unused space; and enables short-term office rentals between members/users. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin in the United States.

MAZ

Seed Round in 2013
MAZ is the content logistics company. Brands like Bloomberg, Hearst, Conde Nast, Fast Company and Harvard Business Review trust their system to process, curate, publish and monetize their content to audiences across mobile, social media, TV apps, voice assistants and more. Since 2010, MAZ has powered content logistics for over 1,000 companies; processing and distributing over half a billion pieces of content to millions of users across 200+ countries. The company has been selected for the INC 30 Under 30 and Entrepreneur’s “Best Entrepreneurial Companies”.

Stitch

Seed Round in 2014
Stitch provides a social network platform that helps older adults connect to the people they love. The company helps older users find companionship, dating, travel, and activity partners for dinner dates, travel companions, love and romance, intimacy, just company, and shared activities. It serves its customers around the world. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Soldsie

Secondary Market in 2014
Soldsie (formerly Centrally) is a payment system enabling merchants to monetize their Facebook page by allowing customers to purchase through comments. Customers register their payment information with Soldsie, and then comment on stores’ pages, channels and feeds to activate a charge to their account, and initiate the shipping process. Merchants use the Soldsie administrative dashboard track and manage inventory and shipping, and experience increased user comments, views and viral shares.

AdEspresso

Seed Round in 2013
AdEspresso, Inc. provides a Facebook advertising tool that helps small and medium businesses to manage, understand, and optimize their Facebook ads campaigns. The company offers AdEspresso Campaign editor that enables users to create and test ads. Its solutions guide the users in various steps of Facebook advertising management, such as campaign analytics, conversion tracking, and campaign optimization. In addition, the company provides Report Builder that creates PDF reports for Facebook ads. Furthermore, it offers a data synchronization tool, which connects email marketing tool (CRM) with Ad account of user on Facebook. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Milan, Italy. As of February 7, 2017, AdEspresso, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of HootSuite Media Inc.

Skycatch, Inc.

Series A in 2013
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

MotionSavvy LLC

Venture Round in 2014
MotionSavvy is developing a translation tool for the Deaf and Hard of hearing by working with gesture recognition technology Leap Motion along with various mobile devices which targets sign language users for improved accessibility. Our goal is the 370 million deaf and hard of hearing market worldwide with a cost affordable product against current competitors.

Stream

Seed Round in 2014
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Kydaemos

Seed Round in 2014
Kydaemos is a new provider of games and developer platforms for mobile devices like phones and tablets. The company's platform offers player versus player (PvP) games and allows each player to place a bet and win real money. Kydaemos was founded in 2011 and is based in Granville, Massachusetts, United States.

RealCrowd

Seed Round in 2013
RealCrowd builds relationships with commercial real estate companies and invests directly in their investment opportunities. This unique crowd-based equity platform was created by experienced commercial real estate investment professionals to allow to decide where the money is invested by offering direct investments. Pooling money with other like-minded investors and working with a seasoned real estate operator with the skills, knowledge, and experience to optimize the asset will remove the traditional barriers to entry that typically exist in commercial real estate investing.

FND

Seed Round in 2014
FND is an online platform that enables its users to search apps on iTunes app store without iTunes. The platform enables its users to search for music, movies, books, podcasts, and more. FND also searches YouTube for related videos and lists them. Through the platform, its users have the ability to purchase apps from the country their Apple ID is associated with. FND was launched in 2013 by Jeremy Mack and Ryann Pierce.

Privy, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Privy specializes in e-commerce marketing for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Its mission is to provide the tools, education, and support small e-commerce brands that need to grow their online stores and build thriving businesses. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bubbl, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Bubbl Adds Fan Interaction Tech to Online and Live-Streaming Video. Our interaction suite includes single-click clip-and-share, video meme creation, selfie/reaction capture, and real-time filters. We partner with media companies, video players, and publishers to boost fan engagement, extend content reach, and establish new ad-based revenue streams.

AdEspresso

Seed Round in 2014
AdEspresso, Inc. provides a Facebook advertising tool that helps small and medium businesses to manage, understand, and optimize their Facebook ads campaigns. The company offers AdEspresso Campaign editor that enables users to create and test ads. Its solutions guide the users in various steps of Facebook advertising management, such as campaign analytics, conversion tracking, and campaign optimization. In addition, the company provides Report Builder that creates PDF reports for Facebook ads. Furthermore, it offers a data synchronization tool, which connects email marketing tool (CRM) with Ad account of user on Facebook. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Milan, Italy. As of February 7, 2017, AdEspresso, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of HootSuite Media Inc.

Sidestep

Seed Round in 2014
Sidestep is a mobile commerce application that lets fans easily order merchandise before, during, or after a live event. They simplify the buying experience and capture sales when interest in purchases is at its peak. Users can pick up their items at a VIP Sidestep table with no wait or have their items shipped home. Sidestep has partnered with artists such as Fall Out Boy, 30 Seconds to Mars, Train, Panic! at the Disco, Gavin Degraw, Hunter Hayes, and many more. By creating a more interactive marketplace that integrates with the show, Sidestep can further drive sales, capture orders for the venue, and offer a more convenient experience for the fan.

Opendoor

Series A in 2014
Opendoor makes it possible to receive an offer on a home in just a few clicks, and sell in a matter of days, removing all of the headache, uncertainty, and risk from the transaction. Opendoor is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has received a total of $645 million in venture funding from Khosla Ventures, GGV Capital, and Access Industries, along with a large group of angel investors. Whether you’re selling, buying, or trading in a home, Opendoor dramatically simplifies the process to help you move on to your next chapter in life.

Bubbl, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Bubbl Adds Fan Interaction Tech to Online and Live-Streaming Video. Our interaction suite includes single-click clip-and-share, video meme creation, selfie/reaction capture, and real-time filters. We partner with media companies, video players, and publishers to boost fan engagement, extend content reach, and establish new ad-based revenue streams.

HDS Global

Seed Round in 2013
Hds Global develops a grocery and general merchandise delivery service. It offers RoboFS, a general-purpose robotic fulfillment system and RetailerFS, an e-commerce technology platform. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.

Youbetme

Series A in 2014
Youbetme is a patent pending consumer technology platform that allows nearly anyone, anywhere, anytime to place a bet with their friends. Their peer to peer social betting platform is the modern day handshake--it's not official until its on Youbetme! The company has secured $1,225,000 in Seed-level funding from angel investors and a New York based venture capital fund, OmegaGE. Raised for the purpose of initial marketing launch and ongoing programming development for a new service designed to revolutionize the social betting experience, Youbetme caters to sports enthusiasts, college students, young professionals, and anyone seeking a simple and engaging way to place a friendly wager on anything and everything. The native iOS app is currently available for download. Youbetme was co-founded by Jason Neubauer and Justin Jarman. The founding team also consists of CTO Nils Lahr, who was the lead architect and inventor of iBEAM Broadcasting, and current co-founder of Synergy Sports Technology. Followed by Andrew Arata who is the Senior VP of Business Development, and User Acquisition Expert Chris Hedgecock, founder of Zeropaid.com and Yumm.com. Not to mention a powerhouse advisory board including: Reed Shaffner former Zynga GM, Brad Klaus former CEO of Extole, and others. About Social Bet, Inc. Social Bet, Inc. is an Angel-funded startup seeking to bring a fun and unique experience to the social mobile gaming space. Designed to meet or exceed the expectations of a serious better, but fun enough for anyone, Youbetme offers validity and liquidity amongst friends—where the only thing you can lose is your credibility. Learn more at www.youbetme.com Youbetme is a trademark of Social Bet, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks previously cited are the property of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged.

Wefunder

Convertible Note in 2014
Wefunder is a crowd investing platform that offers capital raising services. The company's online platform offers investment services to startups through its investors' userbase and disruptive companies can receive amount as small as hundred dollars, enabling companies to grow and develop their businesses.

Goldbelly

Seed Round in 2013
Goldbelly is an online platform for specialty food makers and artisans. Goldbelly's online marketplace connects local food providers to eaters and sources iconic, regional, and local foods from all kinds of cuisines across the country with tools for ordering and doorstep delivery, allowing small businesses to reach new customers and grow their revenue.

Betable

Series A in 2013
Betable is the world’s first platform that enables any developer to legally offer real-money play in their games and apps on any platform or device. Betable is licensed by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission and Alderney Gambling Control Commission to offer support and infrastructure to developers to legally integrate real-money gambling into their mobile and social games and applications. Betable provides world-leading security, fraud protection, player location, identity and age verification and account monitoring to keep players’ funds safe and to ensure responsible gaming. Betable was founded in 2008 in London, United Kingdom. It also is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Dealflicks Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Dealflicks is like Priceline.com, but for movie theaters. Every day you can save up to 60% on movie tickets and concessions at your favorite theaters watching your favorite movies with your favorite people. Theaters love us because we get butts in their empty seats. In fact, 88% of movie theater seats are currently empty because of high prices, home entertainment, and internet-based alternatives. At the same time, over 40 billion dollars are spent on movie tickets and concessions each year worldwide, and the market is growing.

Carta

Series B in 2015
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup. Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital. It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California.

BREWPUBLIK

Seed Round in 2015
BREWPUBLIK is an e-commerce retailer for craft beer and provides beer to homes and offices. Their proprietary technology and data collection position them as the central nervous system of the industry, touching every part of the supply chain experience. Americans spend $100B a year on beer, yet the industry functions like it's 1957. They use data and scale advantages to be the most convenient way to get a beer. Their proprietary technology automatically matches their customers' taste profiles to new products that they've never tried. They generate revenue both from directly from selling the product and then increasingly generate multiples of that with their insights.

Able Lending, Inc.

Series A in 2015
Able Lending LLC, doing business as ablelending.com, provides term loans for small businesses in the United States. It offers Able Start loan product that enables funding with the help of friends, family, and fans; Able Growth loan product for the next stage of the growing business; and Able Refi, a loan product for refinancing high-interest loans and credit cards to free up the cash flow. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Austin, Texas.

LiquidSpace, Inc.

Series C in 2014
LiquidSpace, Inc. provides mobile application for sharing office network. Its offers LiquidSpace, a mobile/web application connecting people seeking workspace with venues offering workspaces to share. Its application connects desk-seeking employees with unused space; and enables short-term office rentals between members/users. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin in the United States.

Krossover

Series B in 2015
Krossover Intelligence Inc. designs and develops online sports, game, and film analytics platform for coaches and athletes. It provides video storage, film exchange, and self-editing for various sports, such as basketball, football, lacrosse, soccer, volleyball, hockey, and other sports. It offers self-service game film analysis, comprehensive statistics, automated highlights, and streamlined recruiting tools the helps in athletic department workflows and improves player performance. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in New York, New York. As of May 9, 2019, Krossover Intelligence Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Agile Sports Technologies, Inc.

Close.com

Seed Round in 2014
Close.io operates as a customer relationship management (CRM) and sales communication platform. It also offers integrated phone and email syncing for sales teams. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Close.io operates as a subsidiary of Elastic Inc.

AltSchool Inc.

Series A in 2014
AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact in our efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child.

Active Mind Technology

Venture Round in 2013
Active Mind Technology, Inc. designs and creates a digital tracking device to track and display golf rounds with stats, trends, and information. Its system enables golf players to record, track, and display every club used, shot taken, and distance covered in each round of golf with useful stats, trends, and information; and upload, replay, and share their rounds and achievements with their friends. It serves customers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Galway, Ireland.

Lyft

Series E in 2015
Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides, and also allows payment through the app. It also allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Its services are primarily focused on college, university, and corporate communities. Lyft is a fast-growing ridesharing company in the U.S. and is available to 95 percent of the US population. Lyft was founded in June 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer in San Francisco, California.

Sphere

Seed Round in 2013
Sphere is pioneering how 360º content gets recorded, distributed, and viewed. The company has 20 pending patents that range from smartphone–based mapping and tracking techniques to bandwidth–sensitive streaming technology for 360º video. Sphere has licensed its software development kit to 60+ brands in 2012, including Samsung, Sony, HomeAway, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Viator. The company is on track for its Sphere app to be pre-loaded on 67 million devices in 1Q14. Sphere is a team of 10, with most of their team comprised of engineers. Their offices are located in San Francisco, California.

Asseta

Seed Round in 2013
Founded in May of 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Asseta is a marketplace for companies to quickly and safely buy semiconductor parts from suppliers around the world. Whether it's a used chamber assembly, a refurbished power supply, or a new o-ring in factory sealed packaging, Asseta helps you find the part you need, in the condition you need it, at 50-60% less than OEM pricing.