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Maya Frai

Investor & Entrepreneur

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Maya Frai is a seasoned investor and entrepreneur with a strong background in product management and design, having held roles at Google, Meta, and Rent The Runway. She has made significant contributions as an investor at top firms like Greylock and GV, focusing on sectors like Web3/Crypto and E-commerce. Maya's career highlights include serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock and being a Product Fellow at Kleiner Perkins, demonstrating her expertise in business strategy and product development across various industries.

Work Experience 

  • Product Lead

    2024 - Current

    Applied AI

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Founding Advisor

    2019

    Founded by USWNT players Christen Press, Tobin Heath, Megan Rapinoe, & Meghan Klingenberg.

Re is a lifestry brand that offers customizable products and experiences for people looking for bold self-expression and non-binary design.

  • Investor

    2023 - 2024

    Village Global is a seed fund with ~$500 million AUM, chaired by Reid Hoffman. Led pre-seed/seed AI incubations and investments.

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

    Led sourcing, diligence, and board observance across consumer and enterprise, with a focus on commerce, future of work, social, and AI applications. New investments in Scenery and Curated. Incubated an AI search product — led a 4-person engineering team, product development, and landed distribution partnerships.

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

    20% role at Google, supported GPs Tom Hulme & M.G. Siegler.

Google Ventures is an investment arm of Alphabet that provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies.

  • Product Manager

    2019 - 2022

    Led product across 3 teams: - (2021) Google Search and Maps: PM lead for international (launches in UK, DE, JP) and consumer lead for US partner launches in Food (Uber Eats, DoorDash). Led first monetization product and aggregator product for price comparison across partners (restaurants, delivery). - (2020) YouTube: PM lead for 0-1 effort to launch live sports on YouTube, monetized for the first time (first launch to ladder up to NFL Sunday Ticket). Led product strategy for expanding our live content strategy to other properties (eSports, Tentpole Events, Movies & Shows). Led Direct Response ads pilot (projected $x-xxB 2025 ARR). Read more: maya-yael.com/youtube.html - (2019) Google Search: Led contextualization efforts (AI enabled search queries for increasing time spent on Search). Worked across teams in Mountain View, Brazil, Switzerland, NYC. Features landed coverage of over 300M+ queries/day. Read more: http://www.maya-yael.com/google.html

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Product Fellow

    2020 - 2021

    1 of 9 fellows chosen for product. https://fellows.kleinerperkins.com/meet-the-fellows/2020/product

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.

  • Product Designer

    2018 - 2018

    Trained as a full-stack product designer (UX design, research, prototyping/animation, i18n). Designed new product experiences for SMBs (partnered with News Feed, Local, and Instagram teams).

Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses.

Raised $25,607,817,488.00 from ValueAct Capital.

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2018

    Spent my winter break getting exposure to the end to end business of RTR as their first PM intern. Led analysis & product strategy during pivot from one-time rentals to subscription-first model. Launched new style community feature during RTR Hack Week with the Platform team. Read more: http://www.maya-yael.com/rtr.html

Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.

Raised $626,149,985.00 from Ares Management.

  • Founder

    2014 - 2016

    First company I started in high school, D2C brand selling Brazilian swimwear in Miami. Leveraged Instagram as an early brand adopter for distribution in 2014. Broke even during our first year of business. In addition to the e-commerce business, I launched a software business targeted towards AP students studying for exams (site reached 1M+ monthly subscribers globally).

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