John Steffens
Founder @ Vineyard 7&8
New York, United States
John Steffens is a Series B investor at Vineyard 7&8 in New York focused on SaaS and Drones. Launny Steffens was appointed to our Board of Directors on May 16, 2007, and is the Founder and Senior Managing Director of Spring Mountain Capital, LP. Prior to founding Spring Mountain Capital in 2001, Launny Steffens spent 38 years at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., where he held numerous senior management positions, including President ofMerrill Lynch Consumer Markets, Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., and Chairman of its U.S. Private Client Group. Under his leadership, the Private Client Group experienced tremendous growth, increasing assets under management from $200 billion to $1.6 trillion. Launny Steffens also served on the board of directors of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. from April 1986 until July 2001.Launny Steffens currently serves on the board of directors of Colony Financial, Inc. He also serves on the board of managers of HealthpointCapital and the advisory boards of StarVest Partners and Wicks Communication & Media Partners, L.P. In addition, he is currently National Chairman Emeritus of the Alliance for Aging Research and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Previously, Launny Steffens served as Chairman of the Securities Industry Association (now the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, or SIFMA) and as a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development. In 2010, Launny Steffens was the recipient of the Billie Jean King Contribution Award from the Women’s Sports Foundation. Launny Steffens received a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and also completed Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries John Steffens invests in
Stages John Steffens invests in
Countries John Steffens invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (25%)
- Drones 1 (25%)
- FinTech 1 (25%)
- Robotics 1 (25%)
- Software 1 (25%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (50%)
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Series C 1 (25%)
Country
- United States 2 (50%)
- Switzerland 1 (25%)
Investments
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Wingtra
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Wingtra is a professional drone manufacturer based in Zurich, Switzerland. The company produces the VTOL WingtraOne drone, which collects high-precision aerial data for surveying and mapping applications. Since its market entry in 2017, Wingtra has partnered with more than 50 of the biggest surveying equipment dealers across the globe, such as RDOInc. and SITECH. | $22M / Series B / Mar 21, 2023 | |
Scheduler AI
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Scheduler AI's patented, Chat AI Scheduling™ technology streamlines scheduling by integrating directly into popular messaging applications. | $1M / Seed / Oct 10, 2022 | |
Xignite
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Named one of the ten coolest brands in banking, Xignite, Inc. provides cloud-based financial market data APIs to help emerging companies and established enterprises deliver real-time and reference market data to their digital assets, such as websites and apps. Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media and softwarecompanies from disruptive fintech firms, such as Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, StockTwits, Wealthfront and Yodlee, to leading financial institutions, exchanges and market data vendors including, Nasdaq , SIX Financial Information and BMO. For more information, visit http://www.xignite.com or follow on Twitter @xignite. | $20.5M / Series C / Feb 08, 2016 | |
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Xignite
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Named one of the ten coolest brands in banking, Xignite, Inc. provides cloud-based financial market data APIs to help emerging companies and established enterprises deliver real-time and reference market data to their digital assets, such as websites and apps. Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media and softwarecompanies from disruptive fintech firms, such as Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, StockTwits, Wealthfront and Yodlee, to leading financial institutions, exchanges and market data vendors including, Nasdaq , SIX Financial Information and BMO. For more information, visit http://www.xignite.com or follow on Twitter @xignite. | $10.7M / Series B / Sep 13, 2011 |
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What does John Steffens invest in?
John Steffens invests primarily in SaaS, Drones and FinTech startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 4 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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