John Maeda

AI @ GITHUB × MSFT / Laws of Simplicity + How To Speak Machine / LinkedIn Top US Influencer

📍 Greater Boston, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
Oct 2024
MillerKnoll is a collective of dynamic brands that comes together to design the world we live in.
Board Member
Mar 2012
Sonos is a sound experience company making it easier than ever for millions of listeners around the world to play more, hear more, and feel more. Explore opportunities at careers.sonos.com
Independent Board Member
2010
We launch products invented by real people like you. We believe the best ideas in the world aren't actually in the world... they're locked inside people's heads. We exist to solve that problem. We make invention accessible. Since launching in 2009, Quirky has rapidly changed the way the world thinks about invention. We bring new consumer products to market by enabling a fluid conversation between a global community of inventors, Quirky's expert staff, and globally recognized consumer brands. The world influences our business in real-time, and we share our revenue directly with the inventors and partners who helped us launch the most innovative new products you've ever seen.
early stageConsumer Goods
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2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
MillerKnoll is a collective of dynamic brands that comes together to design the world we live in.
2014
Design Partner
Jan 2014
For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has partnered with intrepid founders to build iconic companies that made history. Today, Kleiner Perkins continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas and make history across consumer, enterprise, health care, financial services, and hardtech. Our portfolio includes Google, Amazon, Figma, Glean, Harvey, Rippling, TogetherAI, OpenEvidence, Waymo, and Anthropic. For more information, visit http://www.kleinerperkins.com and follow us @kleinerperkins.
2012
Board Member
Mar 2012
Sonos is a sound experience company making it easier than ever for millions of listeners around the world to play more, hear more, and feel more. Explore opportunities at careers.sonos.com
2011
Board Member
Jun 2011
Wieden+Kennedy is an independently owned advertising agency headquartered in Portland, Oregon. W+K was founded in 1982 and currently has 1500 employees working in Portland, New York, Amsterdam, Tokyo, London, Delhi, Shanghai & São Paulo. Our client list includes some of the most recognized and well-respected brands in the world.
2010
Independent Board Member
2010
We launch products invented by real people like you. We believe the best ideas in the world aren't actually in the world... they're locked inside people's heads. We exist to solve that problem. We make invention accessible. Since launching in 2009, Quirky has rapidly changed the way the world thinks about invention. We bring new consumer products to market by enabling a fluid conversation between a global community of inventors, Quirky's expert staff, and globally recognized consumer brands. The world influences our business in real-time, and we share our revenue directly with the inventors and partners who helped us launch the most innovative new products you've ever seen.
early stageConsumer Goods
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