Maria Davidson

Maria Davidson is CEO and Founder of Kojo, a software company based in San Francisco, United States, that is modernising the processing of building materials and has received $84 million in funding to date from investors including Tiger Global and Tishman Speyer. She also co-founded Real Capital Innovation, a financial technology company providing financial forecasting solutions to institutional investors, which was acquired by Addepar in December 2020. She was previously Chief of Staff to Joe Lonsdale, Co-Founder of Palantir, and helped him build 8VC, a venture capital fund with over $3.5 bn in assets under management. Davidson formerly worked in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs focused on the Real Estate, Healthcare, and Consumer sectors. Maria Davidson holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University, where she was also President of the Oxford Union.