Stephen Oskoui
Managing Partner @ Gigafund
Austin, United States
Stephen Oskoui is a seed investor at Gigafund in Austin focused on Software and EdTech. Stephen Oskoui is based out of Austin, Texas and is the Managing Partner of Gigafund and also works as a Investor of SpaceX. Stephen previously worked at Smiley Media as a Founder and CEO. Stephen Oskoui attended the Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 69%
Last updated:
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Industries Stephen Oskoui invests in
Stages Stephen Oskoui invests in
Countries Stephen Oskoui invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (23%)
- EdTech 2 (15%)
- Mobile 2 (15%)
- Education 2 (15%)
- E-Learning 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (23%)
- Series B 3 (23%)
- Series A 2 (15%)
- Series C 2 (15%)
- Debt Financing 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Sana Benefits provides insurance health plans for small and medium businesses or individuals. The company offers simplified plans, ensuring you pay an honest price, and prioritizing customer service. It was founded in 2017 by Nathan Hackley and Will Young and is based in Austin, Texas, United States. | $60M / Series B / Jun 15, 2022 | ||
| Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry. The company's product is an AI training and inference chip that fits the computing power of supercomputers into a single chip, allowing businesses to avoid major bottlenecks that traditional processors face.The company wasfounded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $105M / Series A / Mar 03, 2022 | ||
| Angel Studios is a entertainment company. | $42M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 05, 2022 | ||
| Cover is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and installs custom Backyard Studios. Cover’s mission is to make living in a thoughtfully designed and well-built home a reality for everyone. Using proprietary design software and a precision manufactured building system, Cover delivers exceptional design, functionality, and energyperformance, in a fraction of the time of traditional custom construction. Cover has launched in Los Angeles and is taking pre-orders worldwide. For more information, visit www.cover.build | $60M / Series B / Oct 28, 2021 | ||
| Sana Benefits provides insurance health plans for small and medium businesses or individuals. The company offers simplified plans, ensuring you pay an honest price, and prioritizing customer service. It was founded in 2017 by Nathan Hackley and Will Young and is based in Austin, Texas, United States. | $20M / Series A / Oct 25, 2021 | ||
| There are hundreds of thousands of cold cases in the United States. Traditional forensic testing frameworks such as CODIS won’t help solve them. But new DNA testing technology can. Othram operates at the intersection of molecular biology, population genetics, and bioinformatics. Bridging 20th-century population genetics and 21st-century datascience, we are the first and only forensic laboratory to vertically integrate a DNA test and human ID solution, that can identify victims, find missing persons, and reveal perpetrators of crimes. Othram achieves results even when other approaches fail. | $18.6M / Series B / Sep 16, 2021 | ||
| Sana Benefits provides insurance health plans for small and medium businesses or individuals. The company offers simplified plans, ensuring you pay an honest price, and prioritizing customer service. It was founded in 2017 by Nathan Hackley and Will Young and is based in Austin, Texas, United States. | $20.8M / Series A / Sep 09, 2020 | ||
| Lambda School is a combination of a school and an investment fund. Lambda School's mission is to find untapped or underutilized talent, and train that talent for the most in-demand jobs in the world. Lambda School is pioneering a new model of higher education in which the school invests in the students, instead of the other way around. | $74M / Series C / Aug 21, 2020 | ||
| BloomTech helps learners of all backgrounds launch tech careers. The company aims to provide a direct, low-risk path to higher income by teaching the skills employers want plus supporting applicants in their job search. The simplified training provided by BloomTech equips applicants for careers in data science, software engineering, and otherfields. | $74M / Series C / Aug 21, 2020 | ||
| Sana Benefits provides insurance health plans for small and medium businesses or individuals. The company offers simplified plans, ensuring you pay an honest price, and prioritizing customer service. It was founded in 2017 by Nathan Hackley and Will Young and is based in Austin, Texas, United States. | $3.6M / Seed / Oct 29, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Gigafund
Gigafund makes long-term concentrated investments in founders who are capable of growing with their companies and impact over a period of decades.In order to keep housing affordable, we need millions of new homes. The cover is preparing to mass manufacture high-end, well-designed homes at a fraction of the cost of traditional housing. Last energyis creating clean, low-cost nuclear power to meet the growing energy demands and reverse the effects of climate change.
Gigafund Contacts
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What does Stephen Oskoui invest in?
Stephen Oskoui invests primarily in Software, EdTech and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 13 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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The most recent investment recorded for Stephen Oskoui closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 13 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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