A native of Queens, New York, she attended Long Island University before heading to the West coast and earning a B.S.
She has provided seed financing to numerous successful start-ups including Pure Software, Pete's Brewing Company, AdForce, StarMaker Interactive and Selectica.
Today, she is an active investor and currently serves on the board or advisory board of almost a dozen other start-ups, including: Aible, Andalou, BeyondCore, Coraid, Finesse, Followanalytics, Loopt, Luxe, mOasis, Queplix, Skybox, SolumTech, and StarMaker.
MacLean is an advisor to Foundation Capital and serves on the faculty at Stanford University's Graduate School of Engineering.
[3][4] In May 2011, she received the third Symons Innovator Award Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine given annually by NCWIT to honor successful women entrepreneurs in technology.