
Before Levanta became a funded creator-commerce platform, Ian Brodie learned the expensive difference between software people admire and software they will actually use. His second company grew from that scar tissue.
Chris Compean is the co-founder and CEO of Mayan, a fully-remote SaaS platform that helps Amazon sellers grow with data-driven automation for advertising, inventory, and analytics. An MIT graduate and former early team member at Thrasio, he launched Mayan in 2020 with three MIT fraternity brothers, went through Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, and raised a $5M Series A in 2023 led by Bright Pixel. Mayan has driven over $160M in total Amazon sales for its customers.