Mariam Naficy

Mariam Naficy is a an American business woman. Her investments as well as her entrepreneurial ventures have focused on e-commerce, community, and marketplace sectors. She has founded multiple companies in addition to being an active angel investor. Mariam Naficy is currently living in San Francisco and is CEO of Minted, an online designer marketplace founded by Mariam in 2007. Mariam Nancify is also founder and managing partner of Heretic Ventures, a venture studio making investments in creative economy, e-commerce, blockchain and NFT sectors. In addition to raising funds for her founded companies she herself has made investments in Reddit, Gusto, Color, Our Place, Madison Reed, Middesk, Abbacus AI, The Landing and more.

Mariam holds board positions at Medium, Yelp, Every Mother Counts, Williams College, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. Mariam Naficy has received recognition for her successes throughout the years and in both 2009 and 2019 was named one of the 100 Powerful Women by Entrepreneur. In 2014, she was featured as one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business. She was also listed as one of the 100 top Female Founders in 2019 by Inc.

Mariam Naficy is author of The Fast Track, published October 1, 1997. Mariam currently lives in San Francisco, is married to Michael Mader, and has two children .

Throughout Mariam's childhood, her family lived in Kuwait, Lebanon, Tanzania, Egypt, and Iran. Her father was an economist, and her mother, a writer, and editor. The family lived in the Middle East until 1979 when they fled to the United States due to the instability caused by revolution in Iran. Though they returned to Cairo for a couple of years, the family settled permanently in the US when Mariam was fourteen. Mariam credits these travels and experiences, as well as her love of the arts, as inspiration her current company, Minted.

Mariam studied political economy at Williams College beginning in 1987, and earned her BA in 1991. She received her Master's in Business from Stanford Graduate University in 1998.

Mariam Naficy worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker prior the founding of her first company in 1998, Eve.com, an e-commerce makeup platform. Just two years later in 2000, Mariam and co-founder of Eve.com, Varsha Rao, sold the company for $110 million.

Following this experience Mariam helped to create the company Movielink, working as the vice president of marketing and development from 2002-2003. In November 2003, she became the vice-president and general manager of US E-Commerce, and Global Head of E-Commerce Development for the company, The Body Shop. She stayed at this appointment until 2007, founding Minted the following year. Minted is still operational, and was valued at a net worth of $733 million in 2019.