Maia L. Bittner '11

Head of Business Operations, Chime

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education

  • B.S. of Engineering, Cognitive Science, Olin College of Engineering

awards

  • Forbes 30 Under 30

Maia Bittner is helping Chime members live financially healthy lives as Chime’s head of business operations, following the acquisition of her VC-backed company, Pinch. Pinch helped customers build their credit scores through paying rent. Prior to Pinch, Maia was Co-founder & CTO of Rocksbox, a successful jewelry rental startup that has raised $12.3 million.

Maia advises and invests in early-stage startups with a passion for all things fintech, customer-focused ideas, and tools to support entrepreneurship.

She loves eating ramen, deploying fast and scrappy pilots that demonstrate sparks of consumer demand, and tweeting startup punditry at @maiab.