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Maya Frai

product, founder, investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Work Experience

2024

  • Product Lead

    2024

    Applied AI, Search & Cloud

2025

  • Advisor

    2025

    AI deployment & strategy

2019

  • Founding Advisor

    2019

    Media company advancing the narrative for women’s sports. Founded by USWNT players Christen Press, Tobin Heath, Megan Rapinoe, & Meghan Klingenberg.

2023 - 2024

  • Investor

    2023 - 2024

    Chaired by Reid Hoffman. Led pre-seed/seed AI incubations and investments.

2022 - 2023

  • Investor

    2022 - 2023

    Led sourcing, diligence, and board observance across consumer and enterprise, with a focus on commerce, future of work, social, and AI applications. New investments in Scenery and Curated. Incubated an AI search product as an EIR — led a 4-person engineering team, product development, and landed distribution partnerships.

2021 - 2022

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

    20% role at Google, supported GPs Tom Hulme & M.G. Siegler.

2019 - 2022

  • Product Manager

    2019 - 2022

    Led product across 3 teams: - (2021) Google Search and Maps: PM lead for international (launches in UK, DE, JP) and consumer lead for US partner launches in Food (Uber Eats, DoorDash). Led first monetization product and aggregator product for price comparison across partners (restaurants, delivery). - (2020) YouTube: PM lead for 0-1 effort to launch live sports on YouTube, monetized for the first time (first launch to ladder up to NFL Sunday Ticket). Led product strategy for expanding our live content strategy to other properties (eSports, Tentpole Events, Movies & Shows). Led Direct Response ads pilot (projected $x-xxB 2025 ARR). Read more: maya-yael.com/youtube.html - (2019) Google Search: Led contextualization efforts (AI enabled search queries for increasing time spent on Search). Worked across teams in Mountain View, Brazil, Switzerland, NYC. Features landed coverage of over 300M+ queries/day. Read more: http://www.maya-yael.com/google.html

2020 - 2021

  • Product Fellow

    2020 - 2021

    1 of 9 fellows chosen for product. https://fellows.kleinerperkins.com/meet-the-fellows/2020/product

2018 - 2018

  • Product Designer

    2018 - 2018

    Trained as a full-stack product designer (UX design, research, prototyping/animation, i18n). Designed new product experiences for SMBs (partnered with News Feed, Local, and Instagram teams).

2017 - 2018

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2018

    Spent my winter break getting exposure to the end to end business of RTR as their first PM intern. Led analysis & product strategy during pivot from one-time rentals to subscription-first model. Launched new style community feature during RTR Hack Week with the Platform team. Read more: http://www.maya-yael.com/rtr.html

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