Maryam Mahdaviani
VP, Product - Head of Product, Honey
Maryam Mahdaviani is an entrepreneur, technologist and strategist. She is currently advising tech start-up and growth stage companies as well as institutional investors, primarily focused on FinTech, eCommerce and HealthTech. She most recently was the head of Product at Honey (acquired by PayPal) where she led the company’s product and design teams.
Maryam has been identifying problems and building technology solutions for a variety of industries in the past 15 years. She had founded and grown her own B2B and B2C technology start-ups. Moreover, as a product leader and executive, Maryam has led or partnered with teams at companies such as Apple, Uber, Intuit, Best Buy and Green Dot. She is a sought-after advisor and executive due to her deep domain expertise as well as her numerous successful (and at times unsuccessful) experiences in taking products from inception to scale and building businesses.
Maryam holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science and Machine learning from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Earlier in her career, she worked as a software developer and Machine Learning researcher.
Content & Articles by Maryam Mahdaviani
Setting Up A Founder-Led Organic LinkedIn Content Machine With Claude
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Jonathan Martinez, founder and CEO of GrowthPair, to share how founder-led LinkedIn content took his startup from zero to $1M in annual...
Lessons From Building An AI-Native Startup with Octagos
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited friends from one of our portfolio companies Haley Chute, CPO & CMO, and Harpreet Marwaha, COO & CFO of Octagos, to share...
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...
The 10 Security Gaps That Plague Startups Before Their A Round
A NOTE ON SEVERITY Not every item on this list carries the same level of risk. Some are the kind of finding that stops a deal. Others are serious but...