Stephen Socolof
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ New Venture Partners
New York, United States
Stephen Socolof is a seed investor at New Venture Partners in New York focused on ISP and Sensor. Stephen J. Socolof is the Board Director of EverSpin Technologies Inc.He is also a Managing Partner of New Venture Partners.He is a Founder & Member of the investment committee of New Venture Partners since 2001. Steve has spent his career focusing on corporate innovation. At New Venture Partners, Steve works with leading globaltechnology corporations to help them spin out, commercialize, and scale up new business opportunities in semiconductors, software, storage, and wireless.Previously, Steve joined Lucent Technologies in 1996 to establish Lucent's New Ventures Group responsible for incubating and launching new ventures to commercialize technology from Bell Labs. Lucent's New Ventures Group became the benchmark corporate venture organization for commercializing internally-developed technology. Before joining Lucent, Steve spent eight years with Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc., where he was a leader of the firm's innovation consulting practice.Steve is currently a Director of EverSpin Technologies, GainSpan Corporation, Own Products. He is an Observer of Alverix. He was a Director of SyChip, Inc. before its acquisition by Murata and an investor.He was an Observer of Flarion Technologies, Inc. until its acquisition by Qualcomm, Silicon Hive until its acquisition by Intel. In addition, he was the early lead on and helped launch iBiquity Digital Corporation, Internet Photonics, Inc., and Lucent Digital Video.Steve has been named chair of the National Venture Capital Association's (NVCA) Corporate Venture Group (CVG) Advisory Board. The CVG comprises that part of the NVCA membership made up of corporate venture arms. The CVG Advisory Board is responsible for developing programs to build better communication and practical cooperation between CVGs, venture capitalists, startup companies, and entrepreneurs. The Advisory Board leverages and extends the resources of the NVCA to create best-in-class educational and networking opportunities for corporate venture programs of all charters, sizes, business types, industries, and stages of development. Steve’s one-year term commenced with the NVCA Annual Meeting on April 24, 2012.Steve holds a BA in Economics and a BS in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University and received his MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College, where he was a Tuck Scholar. He currently serves on the board of the Center for the Study of Private Equity at the Tuck School.New Venture Partners, the global venture capital firm dedicated to corporate technology spin-outs, has over $700 million under management. Starting in 1997 as Lucent's New Ventures Group and operating as an independent firm since 2001, the New Venture Partners team has launched over 50 companies built upon innovations from Lucent/Bell Labs, British Telecom, Philips, Boeing, Freescale, GE, IBM, Intel, and other major technology companies.Current Investments:AlverixCrossFiberEverSpinGainSpanOwn ProductsPrior Investments:DAFCAFlarionGlobalCast CommunicationsInternet PhotonicsISPsoftLucent Digital VideoMaps On UsProcelerate TechnologiesSavaJe TechnologiesSilicon HiveSyChip
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
Last updated:
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Industries Stephen Socolof invests in
Stages Stephen Socolof invests in
Countries Stephen Socolof invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- ISP 1 (20%)
- Sensor 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
- Real Time 1 (20%)
- Accounting 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (40%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
- Funding Round 1 (20%)
Investments
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| TranscendAP provides a completely configurable and reliable invoice-to-pay platform for managing all areas of AP operations. | Seed / Oct 30, 2025 | ||
| ChoiceWORX is an intelligent automation software company that is revolutionizing IT Operations. Its AI-driven solutions leverage the power and scalability of AI to automate End-user IT support and RPA operations and management. ChoiceWORX's solutions allow companies to significantly reduce costs, drastically improve worker productivity, andreduce dependence on human labor. | $3.6M / Seed / Apr 17, 2020 | ||
| Everspin Technologies develops and manufactures integrated magnetic products It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. | $15M / Series B / Aug 12, 2013 | ||
| Everspin Technologies develops and manufactures integrated magnetic products It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. | $32.5M / Series A / Apr 22, 2008 | ||
ISPSoft
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ISPSoft offers the only highly scalable architecture and products to expand ISP (including broadband ISP) operations and services while reducing operational costs. ISPSoft's products solve multi-level user needs, scaling from 1000's to tens of millions of users. As a result, the breadth of ISPSoft's customers include regional ISPs tonational carriers making ISPSoft's products an industry standard. ISPSoft's core technology, the NetSOP Internet provisioner, addresses the immediate needs of ISPs and ASPs, as well as the needs of the emerging broadband ISP/CLEC industry. Their unique patent-pending technology provides service activation, scalable to over 25 million users. |
Co-Investors
About New Venture Partners
New Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in corporate spinouts. It focuses on incubation, seed, and early stage investments. The firm invests in underleveraged or underutilized corporate assets; technology or concept ready for commercial product development that is not seeking capital for additional research; product andunderlying technology that is meaningfully differentiated along dimensions that matter to potential customers; and where preliminary research suggesting there are customers willing to pay for the product or service. It seeks to commercialize corporate technologies through the creation of independent ventures.
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Jane Dela Cruz
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Stephen Socolof
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Andrew R. Garman
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Harry Berry
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Tom Uhlman
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What does Stephen Socolof invest in?
Stephen Socolof invests primarily in ISP, Sensor and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 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 Socolof closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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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