Steve Kishi
Associate @ Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
San Francisco, United States
Steve Kishi is a seed investor at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Steve Kishi is the Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Aspenwood Ventures
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 63%
Last updated:
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Industries Steve Kishi invests in
Stages Steve Kishi invests in
Countries Steve Kishi invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (38%)
- Software 3 (38%)
- Information Technology 2 (25%)
- Banking 1 (13%)
- Big Data 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (38%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| StepFunction.ai provides a growth solution for SaaS AI platforms that provide rich customer intent signals to SaaS providers. | $5M / Seed / Aug 31, 2022 | ||
| Oomnitza is the first Enterprise Technology Management solution that provides a single source of truth for endpoints, applications, cloud, networking, and accessories. Our customers can orchestrate lifecycle processes, from purchase to end-of-life, across all IT assets, ensuring their technology is secure, compliant, and optimized, enabling theiremployees. Oomnitza is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | $20M / Series C / Aug 26, 2021 | ||
| StepFunction.ai provides a growth solution for SaaS AI platforms that provide rich customer intent signals to SaaS providers. | $2.3M / Seed / Jan 23, 2020 | ||
| Reinventing online commenting by bringing digital markup tools (think Snapchat) to the Internet. Create Graffiti directly on top of any website, no constraints and no publisher provided text-based commenting platforms needed, and have your Graffiti discovered by other users visiting the same website. Over 700M people use digital markup toolsevery day to add captions, filters, emojis, drawings, etc. on top of digital content before they share with friends. Graffiti allows the digital markup generation to fully express themselves online and cannot be blocked by publishers or governments. | $1.9M / Seed / Jul 03, 2019 | ||
| Stackery’s Serverless Operations Console provides intuitive automation, predictable performance, and operational control over serverless applications and infrastructure. Founded in 2016 and backed by Techstars, Voyager Capital, and HWVP. Stackery is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. | $5.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 03, 2018 | ||
| Alpharank is a bank technology company that develops a behavioral commerce platform.The platform identifies and ranks customers, profiles consumers based on their purchasing patterns, and detects customer influences and preferences, enabling businesses and enterprises to influence and retain their customers. It uses social contagion science,generating insights from historical transaction/purchase data.In 2015, Brian Ley founded the company in Redwood City, California. | $2M / Seed / Nov 29, 2017 | ||
| Alpharank is a bank technology company that develops a behavioral commerce platform.The platform identifies and ranks customers, profiles consumers based on their purchasing patterns, and detects customer influences and preferences, enabling businesses and enterprises to influence and retain their customers. It uses social contagion science,generating insights from historical transaction/purchase data.In 2015, Brian Ley founded the company in Redwood City, California. | $2M / Seed / May 11, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
Founded in 1989 by John Hummer and Ann Winblad, HWVP pioneered the idea of a venture capital firm investing exclusively in enterprise software companies. From their earliest funds focused on the disruptive shift away from mainframes to client/server computing, through the commodity-driven cloud data centers of today, they have remained true totheir software-only roots. Through their deep understanding of the technology landscape, they have helped drive companies to success by supporting those at the forefront of disruptive advances in the software industry.Entrepreneurs themselves, their team has deep technology roots and a passion for building successful companies. Having started their careers as engineers and programmers, they understand the challenges inherent in creating a scalable and economically viable company. From the complexities of product launches, building sales teams, making payroll, and raising capital, to running public companies - they have been where you are and taken companies where you want to go.
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Contacts
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John Hummer
Founding Partner
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Mitchell Kertzman
Managing Director
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Alicia Urizar
Executive Assistant/Office Manager
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Ann Winblad
Founding Partner
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Lars Leckie
Managing Director
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FAQ
What does Steve Kishi invest in?
Steve Kishi invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 8 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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When did Steve Kishi last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Steve Kishi closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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