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Deep tech investor. Startup builder since 2015, now backing early-stage founders. Connect on LinkedIn ↗
From builder to backer.
Steven founded his first company in 2015 and spent the better part of a decade building, through zero-to-one product work, hard fundraising cycles, and the slow, unglamorous grind of getting a hard technology to actually ship. That founder-first perspective is now the lens he invests through: patient capital, technical conviction, and a bias toward problems that don't fit a neat pitch-deck timeline.
- 2015
- Year one, as a founder
- 10+
- Years building & investing
- 3
- Companies built from scratch
- 20+
- Deep tech investments
A decade in the arena.
- 2015
Founded the first company
Started from zero. Built the first product, the first team, and learned what it actually takes to bring a hard idea to market.
- 2017
Scaled through early growth
Grew the team and product through the messy middle, the stage where most of the real lessons about building get learned.
- 2019
A second, harder venture
Took on a more technically ambitious company, sharpening a focus on deep, defensible technology over quick iteration.
- 2021
Transition to investing
Began writing angel checks into founders solving the same class of hard problems, bringing operator experience to the table.
- Today
Full-time deep tech investor
Now dedicated to backing early-stage founders building the infrastructure, hardware, and systems beneath the next decade of technology.
Where the conviction is.
AI Infrastructure
The compute, data, and systems layer that makes modern AI possible at scale.
Semiconductors & Compute
Chips, tooling, and architectures pushing past the limits of general-purpose compute.
Robotics & Automation
Physical systems that take real-world labor and precision beyond human limits.
Climate & Energy Systems
Generation, storage, and grid technology built for the next century, not the last one.
Advanced Manufacturing
New materials and processes that make physical products faster and cheaper to build.
Space & Frontier Tech
Early bets on technology that expands where and how humans can operate.
Built to dominate, not just to compete.
Steven doesn't invest in incremental improvement. He backs the founders building the layer of technology that decides who controls the next century of infrastructure, compute, and industry. Deep tech isn't a niche, it's the substrate the entire global economy gets rebuilt on, and he backs the founders who intend to own it.
The next trillion dollars of value won't go to the fastest follower. It will go to whoever controls the hardest layer.
That conviction wasn't inherited, it was built one company at a time. It started with the first product he shipped in 2015 and ran through years of fundraising, hiring, and failing in public before getting it right. Every investment since has been made with that same operator's discipline: get in early, work alongside the founder, and stay in the room long after the term sheet is signed. That's how a handful of early bets compounds into a portfolio built for global scale.
Own the hard layer
Back technology that's difficult to copy and impossible to route around.
Operate, don't spectate
Work alongside founders as a partner who has actually built, not just funded.
Compound relentlessly
Every company, every cycle, sharpens the thesis and the network for the next one.
Building something in deep tech?
If you're an early-stage founder working on a hard, physical-world problem, I'd like to hear about it.