Max Ventures

We’ve also co-founded 7 venture backed companies and believe our combination of investing and building make us the ideal day zero partners.

We believe being active partners at the very beginning delivers outsized impact for our portfolio companies.

Our unique mix of investing and incubation enables us to be valuable partners for startups navigating the earliest stages of company building.

We also embody a global mindset and admire founders who think globally. We have a track record of helping talented entrepreneurs scale and access resources across other markets.

Ryan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Max Ventures He’s made 50+ seed investments since inception and has also founded 4 VC-backed companies Ryan also co-founded Evolving E with GGV Capital Evolving E has become one of the largest digital commerce and consumer internet communities on the east coast

SOPHIE STENBECK,

Founding Partner Sophie has been an active investor for the last 15 years She is a co-founding board member of the Swedish Queen’s World Childhood Foundation and the Chairman of the Stenbeck Stiftelse Sophie is also the co-founder of Corro, a VC-backed e-commerce company for horse owners She also serves on the board of Penske Media Group and is a dedicated philanthropist through the Sophie Stenbeck Family Foundation

Matt was a former White House appointee in the Obama administration where he helped drive $6 billion in federal funding to early-stage technology startups Prior, he managed city-wide funding programs at the NYC Economic Development Corporation that invested in the City’s technology ecosystem Matt is an op-ed contributor on Forbes, TechCrunch, and several other publications and is a University of Washington and Columbia Business School alum

We build valuable global communities dedicated to exploring cutting-edge business trends in the US and abroad.

In 2016, we founded Evolving E It started as a single day conference and has expanded into the largest digital commerce community for founders, executives, and investors on the East Coast Our annual summit in 2019 attracted 400 people and over 1,000 people will attend an Evolving E event in 2020

Moose Tech is an annual summit that convenes entrepreneurs and investors from both the U S and Nordic region to learn more about the Scandinavian startup ecosystem and how it has become one of the most successful in Europe