# Steelhead Ventures, LLC

> Steelhead Ventures, LLC is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Mobile and Travel. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jan 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/steelheadvc
- Website: http://www.steelheadvc.com/investments/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steelheadvc

Steelhead Ventures, LLC is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Travel. Steelhead Ventures: an early stage fund, vision to invest in market changing companies, with founders born to do what they are doing.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |
| Travel | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Education | 1 | 25% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Doxel | Doxel is an AI software solution that automates progress & schedule tracking for all trades using cameras Using a 360 camera, our AI reports percent complete against schedule and tracks production rates, so you know where the project is and where it’s headed It was introduced in 2016 and operates in Redwood City, California. | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 24, 2018 |  |
| Slyce | Slyce is a marketing automation and analytics platform for brand ambassadors. Today, most brands manage the digital and social content requirements for the ambassadors with emails, text messages, Dropbox links, and Excel spreadsheets and have little data or insight into the activity and value of their brand ambassadors.Slyce provides streamlinedcontent management, workflow, and analytics tools to a variety of brands and organizations, allowing them to share social posts through brand ambassadors or source ambassador generated content for the brand's use. Slyce was launched by Bryant Barr, Jim Cai, and Stephen Curry in July 2015. | $950K | Angel | Sep 01, 2015 |  |
| Bluesmart | Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California. |  | Seed | Mar 23, 2015 |  |
| ThingLink | ThingLink is an award-winning education and media technology solution that brings real-world learning environments and situations to any digital learning platform. It develops a solution that makes it easy to augment images, video, virtual tours and 3D with additional information, voice, questions, and links. Thousands of schools and workplaces useThingLink to create engaging visual learning materials and real-world simulations to improve engagement, performance and accessibility in online learning, and to save costs in logistics and translation. ThingLink has 8 million registered content creators in 190 countries, and 350 million learners per year. In 2019 ThingLink was awarded with the UNESCO ICT in Education Prize. | $1.9M | Seed | Aug 28, 2013 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alchemist Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemist-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amadeus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amadeus-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fairhaven Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fairhaven-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GE32 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ge32-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Steelhead Ventures, LLC invest in?

Steelhead Ventures, LLC invests primarily in Mobile, Travel and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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.

### When did Steelhead Ventures, LLC last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Steelhead Ventures, LLC closed in Jan 2018. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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