Maren Bannon is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at January Ventures, a pre-seed focused firm focused on investing early and opening doors for the visionary founders of the future. Maren is an engineer turned operator and entrepreneur. Before co-founding January Ventures, Maren was CEO and co-founder of LittleLane, a mobile marketplace for local experiences. Her operating experience also includes marketing and sales roles at health tech startups as well as leading consumer marketing for a $1B product at Genentech. She is a contributor at Forbes and a Mentor at Stanford StartX and TechStars. She has an MBA from Stanford and an Engineering degree from Dartmouth. Maren is based in London, United Kingdom.