Maren Bannon
Janauary Ventures
Maren Bannon is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of January Ventures, a pre-seed firm focused on B2B startups that are digitally transforming traditional industries. January Ventures has invested in 60 companies to date.
Maren is an engineer turned operator and entrepreneur. Her career includes leadership roles across marketing, sales, product and pricing at Genentech, Roche, Applied Materials and various startups in Silicon Valley.
She also founded a startup providing marketing tools to SMBs. She is a regular contributor at Forbes, where she writes about venture capital, and has also written articles in The Financial Times and Quartz. Maren is on the Board of Advisors for StartX, a mentor at Techstars, and a Venture Partner at the Entrepreneurship Lab at London Business School. She has an MBA from Stanford and an engineering degree from Dartmouth.
Maren is a SF Bay Area native and spent most of her career there. Maren is married to a growth-stage tech operator and they live in London, United Kingdom. She spends her free time searching for Mexican food in London and testing out new gadgets with her three young daughters.
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