1998 founder dan levitan howard schultz headquarters seattle san francisco products venture capital website www.maveron.com maveron is a venture capital firm with offices in seattle and san francisco that invests in consumer only businesses centered on technology enabled products and services in commerce education and health and wellness . the firm was co founded by dan levitan a former managing director at schroder wertheim & co. and starbucks ceo howard schultz . 1 maveron has funded many recognizable consumer brands including ebay 2 capella education drugstore.com 3 general assembly lucy activewear pinkberry potbelly sandwich works 4 cranium nextfoods maker of goodbelly probiotic fruit juice shutterfly trupanion and zulily a private sale site offering daily deals for moms babies and kids . some of maveron s newest investments include earnest circleup paynearme madison reed julep lemon koru august lively darby smart decide.com newsle seatme red tricycle and more . contents 1 history 2 exits 3 references 4 external links history edit in 1991 schultz chose levitan to implement starbucks ipo and a friendship quickly developed . by 1993 levitan and schultz began investing together in several consumer businesses . in 1997 levitan decided to leave new york and head west to seattle to start maveron with schultz . the firm opened its doors in january 1998 . maveron s name is a combination of maverick and vision . 5 exits edit recent monetized exits include zulily ipo in 2013 potbelly ipo 2013 decide.com acquired by ebay seatme acquired by yelp lemon acquired by lifelock . other monetized exits include ebay capella education company shutterfly cranium acquired by hasbro qsent acquired by transunion quellos acquired by blackrock good technology acquired by motorola lucy activewear acquired by vf corporation auctionpay acquired by global payments the motley fool knowledge networks acquired by gfk and citizenhawk acquired by wolters kluwer . references edit arnold glen 2008 . corporate financial management . pearson education . p. 496 . isbn 978 0 273 71041 7 . gardner david ; tom gardner 2002 . the motley fool s what to do with your money now ten steps to staying up in a down market . simon & schuster . p. 33 . isbn 978 0 7432 3378 1 . moe michael 2007 . finding the next starbucks how to identify and invest in the hot stocks of tomorrow . portfolio . p. 144 . isbn 978 1 59184 189 0 . rubinfeld arthur ; collins hemingway 2005 . built for growth expanding your business around the corner or across the globe . wharton school publishing . p. 161 . isbn 978 0 13 146574 9 . maveron has 350 million is ready to play . seattle post intelligencer . march 3 2000 . retrieved april 1 2010 . dead link external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title maveron & oldid 737201039 categories venture capital firms of the united statesinvestment companies of the united statescompanies based in seattlefinancial services companies established in 19981998 establishments in washington state hidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from december 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 september 2016 at 09 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view