# Steve Vassallo

> Steve Vassallo is a seed investor at Foundation Capital backing Software and Internet. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevevassallo
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/vassallo
- Website: https://x.com/vassallo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vassallo

Steve Vassallo is a seed investor at Foundation Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Internet. Steve Vassallo is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the General Partner of Foundation Capital and also serves as Board of Directors of Cerebras Systems. Steve previously worked at Mode as a Board of Directors. Steve Vassallo attended the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Steve Vassallo has been awarded as Business Week Design of the DecadeAward.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 22% |
| Internet | 5 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 8% |
| Energy | 3 | 6% |
| Analytics | 3 | 6% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 18% |
| Series A | 8 | 16% |
| Series B | 5 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 10% |
| Series C | 4 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 45% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lumber | Lumber is an automated payroll, time-tracking, accounts payable, compliance, and onboarding platform for the construction industry. | $15.5M | Series A | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| Loft Orbital | Loft Orbital operates microsatellites and flies customer payloads as a service.Loft Orbital offers an end-to-end service that delivers missions to orbit on a standard microsatellite bus. The company handles all elements of a satellite campaign from end to end - booking, launching, and operating a satellite, as well as securing the necessarylicenses, insurance, and financing. | $170M | Series C | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| OpenBlock | We're building state-of-the-art CLI coding agents to democratize the means of software production. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Helius | Helius accelerates the adoption of crypto-powered software. | $21.8M | Series B | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Mantle | Mantle is an engineering and manufacturing company that has developed metal 3D printing technology to produce high-resolution parts that meet the critical needs of applications from automotive and aerospace to consumer product design and prototyping. | $20M | Series C | Jul 10, 2024 |  |
| HumanX | HumanX focuses on AI serves as a catalyst for enterprises to identify realistic solutions in the rapidly changing AI field. | $6M | Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| HumanX | HumanX focuses on AI serves as a catalyst for enterprises to identify realistic solutions in the rapidly changing AI field. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| Helius | Helius accelerates the adoption of crypto-powered software. | $9.5M | Series A | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| Infield | Infield is an open-source dependency management that makes dependencies stable and safe. The company was founded by Stephen Pike and Allison Pike in 2022 and is headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States. | $3M | Seed | Jan 16, 2024 |  |
| dltHub | dltHub is building an open source Python library called data load tool (dlt). | $4.7M | Seed | Dec 15, 2023 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Corazon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corazon-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [FirsthandVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firsthandvc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [11.2 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/112capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Foundation Capital

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to the proposition that one entrepreneur's idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. The company is made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. This forward-thinking team of VCs has helped companies like LendingClub change the way money is lent and borrowed, Sunrun reinvent the residential clean energy market, and Netflix revolutionizes media distribution and consumption, among many others.Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, financial technology, and marketing technology. These investments include AdRoll, Beepi, Bolt Threads, DogVacay, Kik, ForgeRock, Lending Home, Localytics, and Visier. The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks.

5 contacts available at Foundation Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jennifer Kaehms | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-kaehms |
| Steve Vassallo | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-vassallo |
| Ashu Garg | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashu-garg |
| Bill Elmore | General Partner and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-elmore |
| Charles Moldow | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-moldow |

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## FAQ

### What does Steve Vassallo invest in?

Steve Vassallo invests primarily in Software, Internet and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 51 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Steve Vassallo last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Steve Vassallo closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 51 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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