# Gabe Newell

> Gabe Newell is a seed investor at Valve Software backing Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Valve Software
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabe-newell-00611444/
- Website: https://x.com/VALVe_CEO_Gabe

Gabe Newell is a seed investor at Valve Software in Seattle focused on Software and Biotechnology. Gabe Newell is the President & Owner & CEO of Valve Corporation. Gabe held a number of positions in the Systems, Applications, and Advanced Technology divisions during his 13 years at Microsoft. His responsibilities included running program management for the first two releases of Windows, starting the company's multimedia division,and leading efforts on the Information Highway PC. Then he started Valve. His most significant contribution to Half-Life, the company’s debut title, was his statement: "C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up."

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 100% |
| Human Resources | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Merge Labs | Merge Labs provides a unified application programming interface that enables software companies to connect with multiple third-party platforms through a single integration. The company’s products support integrations across categories such as accounting, customer relationship management, human resources, ticketing, and payments. Its platformhandles data normalization, authentication, sync scheduling, and error handling to reduce the effort required to build and maintain integrations. Merge Labs also offers tools for monitoring data syncs, managing permissions, and controlling access across connected systems. The service is designed for engineering and product teams that need to scale integrations while maintaining consistent data flows between applications. | $252M | Seed | Jan 15, 2026 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bain Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Interface Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interface-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [OpenAI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openai) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Starship Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/starship-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Valve Software

VC Fund · Bellevue, United States

Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington and based in Bellevue, Washington. The company became famous from it's first game Half-Life.Valve currently develops and maintains several video games including the Half-Life 2 series, Counter Strike Source, Day of Defeat TeamFortress 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. As well as it's current projects, Valve has impressive back catalogue including Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Deleted Scenes, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, Opposing Force, Ricochet.In addition, Valve is a developer of leading-edge technologies including the Source game engine and Steam, a leading platform for digital content with over 10 million registered users.

5 contacts available at Valve Software.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gabe Newell | President & Owner & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabe-newell |
| Doug Lombardi | VP, Marketing | — |
| Fletcher Dunn | Software Developer | — |
| Jane Ng | Game Developer & whatever is needed | — |
| Joe Ludwig | Programmer | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Gabe Newell invest in?

Gabe Newell invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Human Resources startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Gabe Newell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gabe Newell closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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