Convergence Ventures

Maia Heymann is a Founder & General Partner at Converge, a venture firm, with 25 years of experience investing in and financing B2B tech companies. She began in technology banking in Silicon Valley, underwriting structured debt facilities, then launched BancBoston Ventures' Palo Alto office and later became President overseeing its $340M portfolio following the Bank of America merger. Before Converge, she was a Managing Director at Shott Capital, which managed $2.7B in LP commitments to venture funds prior to its acquisition by Hamilton Lane. Over her career she has been involved in more than 60 M&A transactions, 7 IPOs, and 25 board and observer roles, investing in companies such as Chainalysis, BlueConic, and Help Scout.

Nilanjana Bhowmik is Founder and General Partner at Converge, focused on B2B technology with more than 20 years of experience as a venture capitalist, investment banker, and operating executive. Her current investing spans AI/ML infrastructure, edge computing, robotics, intelligent SaaS, and Web 3 fundamentals, and her prior investments include Nimbella, RapidMiner, Jibe, NuoDB, Stitch, Trackvia, Viewfinity, and VKernel — many of which were acquired. Before Converge she was a General Partner at Longworth Venture Partners leading enterprise tech investments, and earlier worked as an M&A investment banker at Broadview and ran the Americas professional services organization at Object Design Inc. She began her career after publishing a graduate dissertation on object-oriented class libraries and is active in education and civic causes in Boston.