Steve Loughlin
Partner @ Accel
San Francisco, United States
Steve Loughlin is a seed investor at Accel in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Steve Loughlin is based out of Palo Alto, California, and is the partner of Accel. Steve previously worked at RelateIQ as a CEO and co-founder. Steve Loughlin attended Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 58
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Steve Loughlin invests in
Stages Steve Loughlin invests in
Countries Steve Loughlin invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$7M
- Series A
- $8M–$28M
- Series B
- $18M–$125M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 16 (28%)
- Artificial Intelligence 13 (22%)
- Enterprise Software 10 (17%)
- Information Technology 10 (17%)
- SaaS 8 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 17 (29%)
- Series A 17 (29%)
- Series B 11 (19%)
- Series C 6 (10%)
- Series D 4 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| AI-Powered development at the Edge | $125M / Series B / Feb 19, 2026 | ||
| Chaos Industries is a technology company that is building the next generation of defense and critical industry technologies. Applying an engineering-led strategy, Chaos provides mission-driven, world-class engineers with a platform to build solutions to critical real-world problems. The Chaos agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping,while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world application. | $510M / Series D / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| AI-Powered development at the Edge | $36.5M / Series A / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| AnySoft is the enterprise evolution of vibe coding — where business intent becomes working software.The platform lets anyone — not just developers — build secure, production-ready enterprise apps with AI. Teams describe what they need in natural language, and AnySoft turns those ideas into governed, scalable applications — instantly.Powered bythe AnySoft One Data Model, every app runs on a unified, audit-ready foundation with built-in compliance, access control, and analytics. IT maintains governance; business users move at the speed of ideas.From startups to Fortune 500s, companies use AnySoft to transform manual workflows, connect data, and deliver software that truly fits their business — all in days, not months. | Seed / Oct 06, 2025 | ||
| Decagon creates generative AI for building customer service agents that work much more like humans and its platform gives customer support team leaders more visibility into their automated customer experience operations | $131M / Series C / Jun 23, 2025 | ||
| Embodied Intelligence for the Home | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Mar 19, 2025 | ||
| Chaos Industries is a technology company that is building the next generation of defense and critical industry technologies. Applying an engineering-led strategy, Chaos provides mission-driven, world-class engineers with a platform to build solutions to critical real-world problems. The Chaos agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping,while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world application. | $145M / Series B / Nov 13, 2024 | ||
| Vorlon enables continuous near real-time detection and identification of third-party apps consuming your data. Our agentless patent-pending solution facilitates risk profiling of apps, and provides AI-driven behavioral analytics with response recommendations. | $15.7M / Series A / Apr 17, 2024 | ||
| Speech AI technology development and advancement are the main goals of the AssemblyAI company. Building and scaling extremely accurate, user-friendly, and secure speech recognition models is the main focus of their work. These models are made to interpret and comprehend human speech, and thousands of users, top businesses, and developers around theworld are already making extensive use of their technology. The company aims to expand speech artificial intelligence by developing sophisticated models that will open up whole new kinds of voice data-based applications and goods. In essence, they are trying to democratize and innovate the potential of speech artificial intelligence for a variety of use cases and sectors. | $50M / Series C / Dec 03, 2023 | ||
| Astral offers Python developer tools like 'uv' for package management and 'Rye' for project setup and automation. | Seed / Apr 18, 2023 | ||
| See all 58 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Accel
Accel invests in sectors such as enterprise software, consumer internet, financial technology, and cybersecurity. It participates in funding rounds ranging from seed and pre-seed stages to growth-stage capital. Beyond direct investment, the organization offers operational resources to assist founders with product development and talent recruitment. The firm connects entrepreneurs with a network of industry peers and mentors to facilitate market expansion.
Accel Contacts
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Abhinav Chaturvedi
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Amit Kumar
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Amy Saper
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Anand Daniel
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Andrei Brasoveanu
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FAQ
What does Steve Loughlin invest in?
Steve Loughlin invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 58 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Steve Loughlin invest in?
Steve Loughlin typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7M at Seed, $8M–$28M at Series A and $18M–$125M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Steve Loughlin's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Steve Loughlin took part in.
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When did Steve Loughlin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Steve Loughlin closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 58 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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