How does it work with Lauren Maillian?
In preparation for our team to review your company materials, we seek two key elements:
1) A distinctive insight into a significant challenge within a sizable market, and
2) The ideal team to address it.
Passion is ingrained in our approach. We don’t seek pedigree but individuals who spark our imagination and present a creative, perhaps even rebellious, solution to a genuine problem.
Should Maillian Ventures pass or if you opt not to collaborate with us—our door remains open. When your next venture or idea emerges, feel free to reconnect. We’re always eager to engage with you.
How does it work with Lauren Maillian?
In preparation for a consultation with Lauren, craft a compelling presentation illuminating your vision.
(Feel free to heed our guidance.)
We seek two key elements:
1) A distinctive insight into a significant challenge within a sizable market, and
2) The ideal team to address it.
Passion is ingrained in our approach. We don’t seek pedigree but individuals who spark our imagination and present a creative, perhaps even rebellious, solution to a genuine problem.
Should Maillian ventures pass or if you opt not to collaborate with us—our door remains open. When your next venture or idea emerges, feel free to reconnect. We’re always eager to engage with you.
What does partnership and collaboration mean to Lauren Maillian?
Lauren strategically aligns with a limited number of ventures annually, focusing on enterprises that redefine sectors and shape markets. As an engaged partner, she actively contributes, drawing upon decades of collective expertise in building companies to empower founders in realizing their full potential.
Founders commend Lauren for her unwavering commitment, persistence, and patience. Having witnessed numerous challenges, including her own, she aims to share valuable insights gained from the hard lessons of past founders.
Lauren approaches her work with gravity, carefully selecting words that encapsulate her dedication. While some may label her an investor, her mindset transcends mere investment; she sees herself as an enduring partner. This commitment extends across four pivotal stages: seed, venture, growth, and global growth, enabling Lauren to collaborate with founders throughout every phase of their transformative
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When Jeneva Bella founded Ruggable, she had entrepreneurial passion, and a vision for reinventing rugs and home goods, but no clear idea how to go from idea to market leader. She was clear on what she wanted her product to do and who her customer was, and she knew her costs, designs and every problem that was holding her back.
As an investor, Lauren Maillian looks for concise and compelling pitch presentations to assess investment and advisory opportunities. But it’s not just the slides with fancy visuals that she’s looking for, it’s the ideas, the clarity of your thinking, and the scope of your ambition.
Harnessing Two Decades of Mastery: Lauren Maillian’s Signature Blueprint for Building Brands and Businesses. With 12 Years of Multistage Investment Expertise, She Pioneers Your Success Through Strategic Company Design — The Maillian Method to Launch, Grow, and Scale Exceptional Ventures Across Diverse Industries.
Lauren advises on growth strategies for companies, focusing on team development, brand enhancement, product innovation, and effective commercialization strategies to drive profitability.
With extensive expertise in strategy, brand building, marketing, and investing, she plays a pivotal role in navigating the dynamic digital landscape.
Her leadership and strategic acumen are critical as we aim to excel in digital commercialization and capitalize on opportunities within the technology market.
Lauren has also led business development efforts and supports social impact initiatives and technology non-profits. She currently directs a consulting firm specializing in guiding early-stage consumer startups and marketing organizations.
Founders know the future isn’t something you discover, it’s something you design. Lauren partners with early stage brands and businesses to create and grow the next generation of iconic businesses.
Lauren is dedicated to founders’ success and company growth. She’s a 3X Entrepreneur, award-winning marketer, brand strategist, partnership expert and operator, helping to build the innovative brands and businesses of the future. She’s been there, done that, and supports forward thinking founders in the consumer industry with a unique advantage in the market. Founders rely on Lauren’s advisory for creative and strategic problem solving and roadmap for business growth and sustainability. They bring their critical questions and concerns about their product, service, market and company to Lauren for brand building. Lauren has chosen early stage winners who have become unicorns, supported the pivot, merger and acquisition, de-SPAC and IPO of companies and their founders.
She’s ready to roll up her sleeves when inspiration requires an extra set of hands. Annually, she advises a limited number of early-stage consumer brands to prepare and position them for brand, business and funding growth. Lauren meets with founders from all over the world who are focused on the future of all things consumer food, health, lifestyle, sports, transportation, innovation, technologies and experiences.
How we can help and ways to work together:
- Customer acquisition and retention.
- Talent Acquisition and Team Development
- Management, Productivity and Process
- Fundraising and Round Structuring – provide invaluable support over the course of Series A, B and private equity fundraising processes. From brainstorming the right valuation, pitch preparation, deal structure and term negotiations, Lauren Maillian’s partnership creates opportunities for growth and efficiency so founders and their leadership teams can focus on what matters most.
As operators and investors, we have built, scaled, and sold companies that have reached hundreds of millions of people.
We are an award-winning global firm that builds and identifies ways for our clients to exceed their goals. We combine a dynamic range of expertise, deep and meaningful connections, and straight ideas to captivate and deliver outstanding results.
LMB was built to help leaders across sectors scale game-changing ideas and maximize impact. Our approach combines strategic advisory work, transformative capital, and connection to a global network of mission-driven leaders.
We back and bring an unique approach to people in business bringing my approach to people and businesses bold enough to tackle the problems and opportunities of the future. Each exceptional leader we work with is motivated by a point of view to challenge, shape, and redefine their market.
Lauren has advised and invested in over 40 startups and companies growing a $150MM aggregate market cap valuation portfolio to $5B in less than 8 years. Companies in Lauren’s advisory and investment portfolio include:
Before Lauren began to make an investment of financial capital, she built trust, gained important experience, and became a trusted trailblazer to organizations working to improve the lives of people and communities. Through her work with grassroots causes tackling overlooked issues and vast experience with some of America’s largest philanthropic organizations, the result of her impactful board service made her an expert in nonprofit governance, financial planning, leadership, team management and talent acquisition.
Lauren has developed approaches to solving problems and driving social impact through thoughtful and nimble strategy leveraging lessons learned in the private sector to identify the right talent, talent acquisition models, business strategy and value proposition to increase major donor giving and organizational impact.
Lauren is currently making an impact through serving on the Board of Directors or Advisor to;
She was first chair of the board and then later CEO of the nonprofit Digitalundivided, where she oversaw the organization’s biennial reports known as Project Diane, which tracked the progress of under represented women founders in the startup ecosystem.
She led teams that examined biases in decision-making, studied economic inequality and the manifold ways in which sociology interacts with venture capital. Having such data has been monumental, as it provided hard facts to show the discrimination that such founders face.
