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Why should I take money from Spice?

Maya Bakhai

Maya Bakhai

Maya Bakhai Spice Capital

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Maya Bakhai

Maya Bakhai Spice Capital

“The Spice team from day one has always been one of the most supportive on the cap table. From consistently sharing our updates across social channels, to making invaluable introductions…they are always proactively finding ways to provide value.”

Tyler Denk

CEO and Founder

@ Beehiiv

Maya Bakhai

Maya Bakhai

Maya Bakhai Spice Capital

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Maya Bakhai

Maya Bakhai Spice Capital

"Maya was a great early supporter of Hugging Face. She will be your biggest advocate. She’s not afraid to leverage her network to help your company achieve maximum potential and she always makes sure you’re having fun!”

Clement Delangue,

Co-Founder and CEO @Hugging Face

“Maya brings empathy and transparency to every conversation. She fights for her founders and isn’t consumed by hype, which is rare in this industry”

Howard Akumiah,

Founder @ Locker Room

(Acq. By Spotify)

“Maya’s so dope that I’m tryna hire her, but she’s running this fund instead”

Mike Demarais,

Founder @ Rainbow Wallet

“Maya is an investor with serious conviction and intentionality- she was the first money into our Seed round pre-empting larger funds and helping with introductions, partnerships, and product feedback. We since went to close a great Seed with a top tier lead investor, and Maya’s investment and strategic advice was critical in the process.”

Tomer Ben-David,

Founder @ Bunches

“Maya offers the most creative product advice of any investor we’ve ever worked with. She’s on the pulse of every trend, sentiment shift, and opportunity for not only our company but also crypto more broadly. Her ability to hone in on nuanced product details, while also offering a zoomed-out perspective is invaluable to our early team. Maya’s the best person to partner with if you’re an early team looking for a sounding board with intellectual honesty, passion, & conviction.”

Natalia Murillo,

Founder @ Koop

“As a founder, Maya immediately earned my trust due to the quality of her other investments. She doesn’t operate based on fads and helped advise us on filling our round with her range of experience and contacts. She has created a number of resources for her portfolio companies to keep in touch with one another which introduced me to other companies we plan to collaborate with.”

Daisy Alioto,

Founder @ Dirt

“Maya is someone that any founding team would be lucky to have on their cap table. We’re able to always go to her for product feedback, questions or intros. She helped us figure out big decisions in our company (including a potential acquisition and pivot). She genuinely cares about us as founders.”

Narahari Bharadwaj,

Founder @ the402 Protocol

“Since starting Roi, Maya has always been one of the first people I reach out to for fundraising advice, product feedback, and support through hard times. She’s introduced me to countless people and meets with me bi-weekly despite not even being an investor in our pre-seed. A+ rockstar and vibes.”

Sujith Vishwajith,

Founder @ Roi

“Maya has been helping our company for a while and what I appreciate the most is that she is completely all in when she decides to fund a startup. She'll use the product extensively, talk to customers, and bring us new, highly informed insights that we might have missed. She brings that founder-level scrappiness to venture capital and is able to come up with creative out of the box solutions for problems we had in growth, product, and marketing. Her positivity and optimism is contagious and it's been the edge that's kept us at the top of the industry.”

Shelby Thomas,

Co-Founder @ Lore

“Maya has the clarity of conviction necessary to identify great companies coupled with a relentless drive to deliver for early-stage founders”

Nitya Subramanian,

Founder @ Capsule

“Maya is one of the greatest assets you can have on your team. She’s wired into the culture and has great instincts for understanding consumer behavior. You won’t find an investor who responds to messages faster and cares more about helping you win.”

Kiran Cherukuri

Founder @Sup Labs