# StepStone Group

> StepStone Group is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 154 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: La Jolla, United States
- Total investments: 154
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last fund: Mar 2003
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stepstone-group/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/stepstonegroup
- Website: http://www.stepstoneglobal.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stepstoneglobal/

StepStone Group is a VC fund in La Jolla focused on Software and Information Technology. StepStone Group provides investment solutions and advisory services focused on private markets. The company offers a range of products, including private equity, private debt, real estate, and infrastructure investments. StepStone Group assists clients in developing tailored investment strategies that align with their specific goals and riskprofiles. Additionally, the firm delivers data analytics and market insights to enhance decision-making processes for investors. Through its comprehensive approach, StepStone Group supports clients in navigating the complexities of private market investments.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $10M–$140M |
| Series B | $16M–$300M |
| Series C | $35M–$500M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 36 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 24 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 7% |
| SaaS | 10 | 6% |
| Cyber Security | 10 | 6% |

152 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 27 | 18% |
| Series B | 23 | 15% |
| Series A | 18 | 12% |
| Series D | 11 | 7% |
| Private Equity | 9 | 6% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 77 | 50% |
| India | 6 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 3% |
| Israel | 2 | 1% |
| Mexico | 2 | 1% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Jones | Senior Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-jones-5 |
| David Jeffrey | Partner - Head of Europe | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-jeffrey |
| Hunter Somerville | Partner | 29 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hunter-somerville |
| Lindsay Creedon | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lindsay-creedon-6cd4 |
| Margaret McKnight | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/margaret-mcknight |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mariana Minerals | Mariana Minerals is a software-first critical minerals company that supplies materials essential for modern energy, AI, and defense applications. The company uses its proprietary platform, MarianaOS, which combines AI, machine learning, and end-to-end project execution tools to accelerate the timeline from discovery to production in the miningsector. | $310M | Series B | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Antora Energy | Antora Energy delivers zero-carbon industrial heat and power to heavy industries that are more reliable than fossil fuels. Antora’s thermal energy storage soaks up excess solar and wind electricity and uses it to heat blocks of carbon so they glow like inside a toaster. | $550M | Series C | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Genius AI | Genius AI is a company that creates automated personal assistant software for appointment management. The software from the company accepts bookings and payments, monitors clients and tracks their history, organizes personal calendars, and reports analytics, allowing beauty professionals and freelancers to manage and develop their companies throughclient interaction and marketing automation. | $44M | Series D | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Upscale AI | Upscale AI is a high‑performance AI networking company accelerating AI democratization with open‑standard and full‑stack turnkey solutions. | $190M | Series A | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| EDGE Markets | EDGE Markets provides financial infrastructure designed for trading, gaming, and other alternative financial markets, supporting both institutional and consumer participants. The company offers banking, payment, settlement, and capital movement solutions tailored for environments that require high-frequency, real-time transactions. Its platformincludes products such as EDGE Connect, a private payments and settlement network, and EDGE Pro, a banking platform for market makers and institutional investors operating in regulated markets. EDGE Markets also develops specialized debit and banking services intended to facilitate deposits, withdrawals, liquidity management, and transaction tracking while incorporating compliance and responsible-use controls. Through its integrated financial infrastructure, the company aims to improve the efficiency of payments, settlements, and capital flows across gaming, prediction, crypto, and trading ecosystems. | $29.2M | Series A | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| Airis Labs | Airis Labs provides a platform that turns user-generated content into field intelligence. The system extracts information from videos, images, audio, and text to help identify threats. It processes large amounts of unstructured data to support investigations and monitoring. The platform reduces time spent reviewing footage by automating theanalysis process. It offers high accuracy in locating urban areas from visual data. Airis combines multiple tools into one system for intelligence gathering and threat mapping. The platform can be deployed on private servers or through cloud networks. | $31M | Series B | May 27, 2026 |  |
| Multiverse | Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer.Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-trackuniversity route and often uninspiring corporate training. | $70M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 15, 2026 |  |
| Multiverse | Multiverse is a tech startup that seeks to provide an alternative to university training. Multiverse ensures young people have access to the best career-focused apprenticeships on offer.Multiverse empowers and supports people to create their own realities as they journey through a fulfilling career. Multiverse is a true alternative to a one-trackuniversity route and often uninspiring corporate training. | $70M | Series E | May 15, 2026 |  |
| AcuityMD | AcuityMD provides a software platform designed for the medical technology sector that integrates healthcare data with internal sales information to support commercial decision-making. Its system enables users to identify target markets, evaluate opportunities, and manage sales processes such as pipeline tracking, territory alignment, and contractperformance within a unified workflow. The platform combines real-world healthcare data with analytics to help organizations understand how and where medical devices are used, translating complex data into actionable insights for sales and marketing teams. It is used by a range of medical device companies, from early-stage firms to large enterprises, to guide commercialization strategies and monitor market performance. | $80M | Series C | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| NeuBird | NeuBird is a first-of-its-kind cloud-based generative operations platform for enterprises. | $19.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 06, 2026 |  |

10 of 154 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does StepStone Group invest in?

StepStone Group invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 154 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 StepStone Group's check size?

StepStone Group typically joins rounds of $10M–$140M at Series A, $16M–$300M at Series B and $35M–$500M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds StepStone Group participates in.

### How do I contact StepStone Group?

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### Who are the partners at StepStone Group?

The team at StepStone Group includes Andy Jones (Senior Managing Director), David Jeffrey (Partner - Head of Europe) and Hunter Somerville (Partner), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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