# Maywic Select Investments

> Maywic Select Investments is a VC fund backing Retail and E-Commerce. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cincinnati, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maywic-select-investments
- Website: http://www.maywic.com

Maywic Select Investments is an early stage and growth stage investor in consumer products and retail that promote healthy lifestyles, wellness, and wellbeing. Founded by Fred Mayerson and Chad Wick, the firm is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 2 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |
| Digital Media | 2 | 14% |
| Media and Entertainment | 2 | 14% |
| News | 1 | 7% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 29% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |
| Series E | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chad Wick | Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-wick |
| Frederic Mayerson | Chairman and Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frederic-mayerson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cleancult | Sustainable packaging and an effective clean, powered by nature’s finest ingredients. | $5M | Series B | May 07, 2025 |  |
| Joy | Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co. | $10M | Seed | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Prognos Health | Prognos Health is a leading health tech company that is pushing the boundaries of healthcare analytics. The company’s platform, prognosFACTOR, has the power to query billions of lab and health records on more than 325 million de-identified patients to answer clinically-focused healthcare questions in minutes, not months. The platform enables thequerying and purchasing of patient-centric, HIPAA-Compliant healthcare data from the Prognos Marketplace to address diverse applications, including cohort design, patient journey studies, health outcomes and more. Customers include 25 of the top 30 pharmaceutical manufacturers and three of the top five payers. | $23.3M |  | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Branch | Office furniture hasn’t changed in a while--about 79 years, in fact. That’s the average age of the top twenty-five office furniture companies in America. None of them were born after the Internet. Branch makes office furniture simple. We're building an office experience for the 21st century: flexible, affordable and easy so you can sit down(or stand) and get to work. | $10M | Series A | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Butler Hospitality | Butler Hospitality is an on-demand platform for room service and amenities. Butler Hospitality delivers amazing gourmet amenities right to any hotel room and specializes in providing offsite room service for limited-service hotels. Butler Hospitality was founded in 2017 in New York City. | $35M | Series B | Oct 28, 2021 |  |
| Cleancult | Sustainable packaging and an effective clean, powered by nature’s finest ingredients. | $28.4M | Series B | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| WaitWhat | WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format.By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories withtheir content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale. | $12M | Series B | Jun 21, 2021 |  |
| NewStand | New Stand is a rapidly expanding convenience and engagement platform that blends physical touchpoints with digital perks and location-based media to be consistently helpful and engaging in people’s lives. | $40M | Series B | Jun 03, 2021 |  |
| Joy | Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co. | $500K | Seed | Oct 10, 2020 |  |
| Joy | Joy is the creator of the first Smart Photo Album that allows you to curate and share your favorite photos with friends and family. Designed to live on your coffee table and sit comfortably in your lap, the Joy Album makes your most cherished moments instantly viewable in gorgeous layouts, finally modernizing the lost art of creating a physicalphoto album.The Joy team hails from Apple and Sonos and is building a premium all-in-one hardware and software photo solution for families to share memories with loved ones near and far.The company was founded in February 2016 and is backed by top investors including Obvious Ventures, David B. Heller, Maywic and The Chernin Group.Joy is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.joy.co. |  | Convertible Note | Oct 10, 2020 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Obvious Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/obvious-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anchor Capital GP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anchor-capital-ae68) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Cigna](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cigna) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Maywic Select Investments invest in?

Maywic Select Investments invests primarily in Retail, E-Commerce and Digital Media startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Maywic Select Investments?

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### Who are the partners at Maywic Select Investments?

The team at Maywic Select Investments includes Chad Wick (Founder) and Frederic Mayerson (Chairman and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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