# Steve Kishi

> Steve Kishi is a seed investor at Aspenwood Ventures backing SaaS and Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aspenwood Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspenwood-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2022
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kishi
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/stevekishi
- Website: http://www.hwvp.com

Steve Kishi is a seed investor at Aspenwood Ventures in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Steve Kishi is the Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Aspenwood Ventures

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| Banking | 1 | 13% |
| Big Data | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| StepFunction.ai | 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 | 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 |  |
| Oomnitza | 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 B | Aug 26, 2021 |  |
| StepFunction.ai | 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 |  |
| Graffiti | 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 | 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. |  |  | Apr 03, 2018 |  |
| Alpharank | 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 | 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. |  | Seed | May 11, 2017 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Inventus Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inventus-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Riverside Acceleration Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverside-acceleration-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arnold Venture Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arnold-venture-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [C5 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c5-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dallas Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dallas-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aspenwood Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Aspenwood Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies.

4 contacts available at Aspenwood Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alicia Urizar | Executive Assistant/Office Manager (Formerly known as Hummer Winblad Venture Partners) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alicia-urizar |
| Lars Leckie | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lars-leckie |
| Maria Mulcahy | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-mulcahy-5144 |
| Steve Kishi | 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.

### How do I contact Steve Kishi?

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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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