# Maia Bittner

> Maia Bittner is a pre-seed investor at XFactor Ventures backing Software and Financial Services. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [XFactor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xfactor-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maiabittner
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/maiab
- Website: http://www.maiabittner.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/maiab

Maia Bittner is a pre-seed investor at XFactor Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Financial Services. Maia Bittner is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Partner at XFactor Ventures. Maia Bittner attended Olin College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 33% |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |
| Finance | 1 | 11% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blind Insight | Unlock secure collaboration with compliance-ready privacy-enhancing technology. Real-time searchable encryption and fine-grained access control so you don't have to choose between data protection and innovation. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2024 |  |
| Waivr | Waivr is a financial technology company that provides real-time payments to merchants. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| Sydecar | Sydecar builds tools that remove the headache of organizing private investments -- so you can focus on making deals, not spreadsheets. Their lightweight, powerful technology helps you to manage subscription docs, compliance, banking, tax reporting, and admin for all of your deals, of any size, in one place. | $8.3M | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Better Financial Corporation | Better Financial is a holding company building fintech brands that help Americans save, spend, invest and protect each other. We use our shared engineering, compliance and growth playbooks to quickly scale fintech brands to millions of users. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Newcon | Newcon is a SaaS video platform that enables content creators (conferences, speakers, etc.) to increase their ROI by letting them distribute, monetize and build communities around their existing content - and all this at the same place.Newcon's mission is it to democratize expert knowledge and make it accessible to anyone, anywhere,on-demand. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2022 |  |
| Newcon | Newcon is a SaaS video platform that enables content creators (conferences, speakers, etc.) to increase their ROI by letting them distribute, monetize and build communities around their existing content - and all this at the same place.Newcon's mission is it to democratize expert knowledge and make it accessible to anyone, anywhere,on-demand. |  | Angel | Feb 18, 2022 |  |
| Quartz Systems | Quartz identifies, tracks, and predicts everything that moves on a construction site, making construction measurably safer and gives managers never-before-collected insights into how work is accomplished on their sites. Their cameras and sensors collect information, and their computer vision and advanced analytics help the site track any process orprocedures in real time. | $7.8M | Seed | May 13, 2020 |  |
| Nearside | Nearside provides financial and software services for SMBs. The company offers lines of credit to small business owners who may not be able to get credit from more traditional sources and empowers business owners with the tools and support they need to achieve success, enabling clients to access credit. | $5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| Upshift | Upshift is a personalized car membership experience: On-demand, hassle-free access to your car on your terms for a fraction of the cost of overall ownership. Choose your plan, and our concierge service will do the rest. Reserve a car whenever you need it. And never worry when you don’t. | $73K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2016 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hustle Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hustle-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [On Deck](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/on-deck-a441) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ahoy Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahoy-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Altari Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altari-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About XFactor Ventures

VC Fund · Boston, United States

XFactor Ventures is focused on making pre-seed and seed stage investments in companies with billion dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.

5 contacts available at XFactor Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Maia Bittner | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maia-bittner |
| Aihui Ong | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aihui-ong |
| Allison Kopf | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-kopf |
| Amanda Bradford | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amanda-bradford |
| Anna Palmer | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-palmer-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Maia Bittner invest in?

Maia Bittner invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Maia Bittner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Maia Bittner closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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