Investing Profile

Mariam Naficy

InvestorAngelVCFounder
Founder and Managing Partner at Heretic Ventures
heretic.ventures/teamSan Francisco, California
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Heretic Ventures Managing Partner
$100K - $5.0M
$1.5M
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Lumi Story
SeedJul 2024$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), David Sze (Greylock), Hakeem "Chamillionaire" Seriki (Convoz)
The New Club
SeedMar 2024$3M
$3M
Co-investors: Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Mallun Yen (Operator Collective), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), Pam Kostka (Operator Collective), Evan Moore
Polywork
Series BApr 2022$28M
$73M
Co-investors: Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Sriram Krishnan (Andreessen Horowitz), Michael Mignano (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Harry Stebbings (20VC), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Max Levchin (Scifi Vc), Raymond Tonsing (Caffeinated Capital), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Anthony Pompliano, Mike Krieger, Elad Gil, John Collison, Kevin Lin, Jeremy Yap, Steve Chen, Scott Belsky, Fidji Simo, Baron Davis, Patrick Collison
Maker Wine
SeedNov 2021$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Nikil Viswanathan (Alchemy Ventures), Neil Rimer (Index Ventures), Pejman Nozad (Pear VC), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), George Bousis (1/1 Capital), Matthew Kaness (Flexsteel Industries Inc.), Drew Taggart (Mantis VC), Alex Pall (Mantis VC), Brigette Lau (Firework Ventures), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), Henry Davis, Chris Fanini, Odell Beckham Jr., Daniel Kan, James Beshara
The Landing
SeedFeb 2021$3M
$3M
Co-investors: Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Maria Salamanca (Ulu Ventures), Manish Chandra, Tracy Sun
Abacus.AI
Series AJul 2020$13M
$90M
Co-investors: Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Mike Volpi (Index Ventures), Deep Nishar (General Catalyst), David Cahn (Sequoia Capital), Ram Shriram (Sherpalo Ventures), Erica Ruliffson Schultz (Operator Collective), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners), Josh Shirazi (Alkeon Capital), Keval Desai (InterWest), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Yan-David Erlich, Elad Gil
Color
Series AApr 2015$15M
$410M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Chloe Sladden (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Raymond Tonsing (Caffeinated Capital), Max Levchin (Scifi Vc), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), April Underwood (Adverb Ventures), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Steve Jang (Kindred Ventures), Ling Wong (Highbury Group), Paul Hewson (Bono), Drew Houston, Julia Hartz, Ben Davenport, Aaron Levie, Bill Tai
Reddit
Series BSep 2014$50M
$1.3B
Co-investors: Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Ronald Conway Sr. (SV Angel), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Calvin Broadus (Casa Verde Capital), Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), Judd Morgenstern (Partners Resolute), Michael Abramson, Philip Kaplan, Yishan Wong, Jared Leto, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky