# Stephen Roulac

> Stephen Roulac is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Mobile and Apps. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Mar 2021
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenroulac
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/stephenroulac
- Website: https://x.com/stephenroulac

Stephen Roulac is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Apps. Stephen E. Roulac, Ph.D., is a consultant, economist, scholar, writer, and futurist. Since 1972, he has headed Roulac Global, a firm that provides advisory and litigation consulting services on significant decisions of businesses, primarily concerning real estate involvements.Stephen Roulac's background reflects decades of study, leadingacademic credentials and includes year of experience, deep research and data mining and building and leading several businesses. Through his work, he has made fundamental and innovative research contributions and pioneered applications of economic analysis and management methods to real estate.As an informative professional speaker, Dr. Roulac has made presentations and speeches to hundreds of organizations and has been the keynote speaker or featured instructor at significant professional forums throughout the country and abroad. Among others, Dr. Roulac's clients have included Apple, Bank of America, California Public Employees' Retirement System, City of Los Angeles, Hallmark Corporation, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Merrill Lynch, and the U.S. Department of Labor.Dr. Roulac is an active author of real estate and business topics and has written hundreds of articles and authored or edited over a dozen books. He has written the "Property Strategy" column for Forbes, wrote the overview cover essay for Real Estate Capital Markets Report, and a column on strategic issues in pension investing for The Institutional Real Estate Letter. His "Modern Real Estate Investment: An Institutional Approach," has been recognized as an authoritative treatise on real estate investment practice. Dr. Roulac has served as adjunct professor at Texas A & M University, Texas Real Estate Research Center, and as a lecturer at the Graduate School of Management, UCLA. He served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business for ten years, and concurrently held a joint appointment in the Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, and the Schools of Business Administration at UC, Berkeley. He was also an adjunct professor at Hastings College of Law.Dr. Roulac received his Ph.D. in Finance and Strategic Management from Stanford University, his M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard University, his JD from University of California, Berkeley, and his BA in Economics from Pomona College.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $160k–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 33% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Parking | 1 | 17% |
| Robotics | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Parknav | [Parknav] (http://parknav.com) licenses real-time and static data about street parking to mobility and city customers. It is the leader in real-time street-parking availability data, and sells point solutions and aggregate solutions involving street-parking availability data. It is available B2B for 240 cities in the US and Europe. ItsParknav mobile application and its website provide coverage for 30 of those cities directly to consumers.Read more: https://www.facebook.com/parknav Follow: https://twitter.com/Parknav Contact: contact@parknav.com | $801.9K | Equity Crowdfunding | Mar 23, 2021 | http://parknav.com |
| Parknav | [Parknav] (http://parknav.com) licenses real-time and static data about street parking to mobility and city customers. It is the leader in real-time street-parking availability data, and sells point solutions and aggregate solutions involving street-parking availability data. It is available B2B for 240 cities in the US and Europe. ItsParknav mobile application and its website provide coverage for 30 of those cities directly to consumers.Read more: https://www.facebook.com/parknav Follow: https://twitter.com/Parknav Contact: contact@parknav.com |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2015 | http://parknav.com |
| Roost | Roost enables push notifications for websites.With the decline of RSS and the death of services like Google Reader, Roost fills a vacuum for readers who want to stay engaged with their favorite websites. Roost enables readers to receive up to the minute, light touch reminders whenever their preferred web publishers post new content, but withoutcrowding their inbox or overwhelming them with heavy messaging.Roost, in turn, allows web publishers to identify their most loyal readers and consistently create new interactions with them. Apart from Roost, desktop push notifications are too cost and resource prohibitive for publishers to integrate with their websites. Roost solves this problem.With the emergence of mobile apps, push notifications quickly became the preferred method of content consumption within apps. Roost is applying this communication channel to the web.Founded in 2009 as Notice Software, Roost began to earnestly pursue a mobile web push in 2012. | $160K | Seed | Jun 27, 2014 | https://goroost.com/ |
| RISE Robotics | RISE Robotics is a technology company that develops fluid-free motion control systems for heavy machinery. The company makes the electrification, teleoperation, and automation of heavy machinery economically viable using its hydraulic replacement technology called Beltdraulic. It is a belt-and-pulley-based linear actuation technology thatreplicates—and in some cases surpasses—the force and precision of hydraulic systems, without using oil. This innovation enables machines to operate faster, more efficiently, and with lower emissions while reducing operational costs.RISE Robotics also offers design and implementation support, working closely with OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and the U.S. Department of Defense to integrate Beltdraulic solutions into existing systems. Its mission emphasizes boosting machine productivity, reducing maintenance needs, and promoting environmental sustainability through cutting-edge actuation technology. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 23, 2012 | http://www.riserobotics.com |
| Parknav | [Parknav] (http://parknav.com) licenses real-time and static data about street parking to mobility and city customers. It is the leader in real-time street-parking availability data, and sells point solutions and aggregate solutions involving street-parking availability data. It is available B2B for 240 cities in the US and Europe. ItsParknav mobile application and its website provide coverage for 30 of those cities directly to consumers.Read more: https://www.facebook.com/parknav Follow: https://twitter.com/Parknav Contact: contact@parknav.com |  | Angel |  | http://parknav.com |

5 of 6 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Stephen Roulac invest in?

Stephen Roulac invests primarily in Mobile, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Stephen Roulac's check size?

Stephen Roulac typically joins rounds of $160k–$1.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stephen Roulac participates in.

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### When did Stephen Roulac last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stephen Roulac closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 6 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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