# Steve Westly

> Steve Westly is a Series B investor at The Westly Group backing Software. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Westly Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-westly-group)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevewestly
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SteveWestly
- Website: http://www.westlygroup.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveWestly

Steve Westly is a Series B investor at The Westly Group in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Steve Westly is based out of Menlo Park, California, and is the Founder & Managing Partner of The Westly Group. Steve previously worked at State Lands Commission as a Controller. Steve Westly attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 14% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 9% |
| Analytics | 3 | 7% |
| CleanTech | 3 | 7% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 11 | 25% |
| Series C | 7 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 11% |
| Series A | 4 | 9% |
| Series D | 3 | 7% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 48% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AttoTude | AttoTude develops interconnect technology for artificial intelligence and hyperscale data center environments. The company designs terahertz (THz) communication solutions that enable high-speed data transfer between computing systems and network components. Its technology focuses on addressing bandwidth, power consumption, scalability, andconnectivity challenges associated with large-scale AI processing and data-intensive workloads. | $52M | Series C | Jun 15, 2026 | https://www.attotude.com |
| Squint | Squint is a developer of manufacturing technology solutions that optimize factories' procedures and workforce. The AR-powered interface and app-based accessibility of Squint significantly reduce operator training time and on-the-floor errors. It reduces augmented reality to an app that anyone can use quickly and easily. Squint Procedures makecomplex machinery safer to operate, and Squint Notes enable knowledge sharing across the factory floor. It also combines real-world factory settings with digital instructions to make protocols more engaging and accessible. | $40M | Series B | Aug 12, 2025 | https://www.squint.ai/ |
| Enpal | Enpal is a photovoltaics leasing firm that provides solar power systems. Its product already enables customers to reduce their electricity expenditure through a solar system and a green all-inclusive energy solution. The company was founded in 2017 by Jochen Ziervogel, Mario Kohle, and Viktor Wingert. It is based in Berlin, Germany. | $230.8M | Series D | Jan 09, 2023 | http://www.enpal.de |
| Circulor | Circulor uses blockchain and AI to cut the cost of traceability and due diligence in raw materials supply chains. Its pioneer customers include car manufacturers, EV battery manufacturers, commodity traders, and miners who collectively want to pioneer more effective approaches to responsible sourcing.Circulor was founded in 2017 and isheadquartered in London, England. | $25.2M | Series B | Jun 23, 2022 | https://circulor.com |
| T-REX | Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedentedtransparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency. | $40M | Series C | Jan 26, 2022 | http://www.trexgroup.com/ |
| CyCognito | CyCognito is a revolutionary new approach to external cyber risk management driven to create positive business impact. Far deeper than external attack surface management, our platform helps organizations identify, understand and master their risk in profound new ways. Fully-automated, highly scalable, and designed to function as promised, ourplatform uses advanced machine learning and natural language processing to allow for unprecedented reach, speed and accuracy. We can step into the shoes of potential attackers—which in turn helps us identify and secure gaps better than anyone. We help teams secure their attack surface by helping them determine true risks, where they need to focus and how they should invest. And then we use what we learn to help bridge cyber risk remediation across departments unlike ever before. | $100M | Series C | Dec 01, 2021 | https://www.cycognito.com |
| Circulor | Circulor uses blockchain and AI to cut the cost of traceability and due diligence in raw materials supply chains. Its pioneer customers include car manufacturers, EV battery manufacturers, commodity traders, and miners who collectively want to pioneer more effective approaches to responsible sourcing.Circulor was founded in 2017 and isheadquartered in London, England. | $19.8M | Series A | Jun 10, 2021 | https://circulor.com |
| T-REX | Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedentedtransparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency. | $13M | Corporate Round | Oct 04, 2020 | http://www.trexgroup.com/ |
| SentinelOne | SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection that prevents, detects, and responds to attacks across all major vectors.The company aims to shape the future of endpoint security with an integrated platform that combines behavioral-based detection, advanced mitigation, and forensics to stop threats in real time. Specializing in attacks thatutilize evasion techniques, SentinelOne is a vendor that offers complete protection against malware, exploit, and insider-based attacks. This led Gartner to recognize SentinelOne as a Visionary in their recent Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrant. SentinelOne is also a next-generation endpoint protection company to be independently certified as a true antivirus replacement for Windows, OS X, and Linux, including certification for both HIPAA and PCI. SentinelOne was formed by an elite team of cybersecurity and defense experts from IBM, Intel, Check Point Software Technologies, Cylance, McAfee, and Palo Alto Networks.SentinelOne was named the seventh fastest-growing company in North America in 2019, the fastest-growing in Silicon Valley, and was the only cybersecurity company recognized in the top 10 of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™. SentinelOne was also the only endpoint protection company on the Forbes AI 50 list, recognizing the 50 most promising companies using AI as a core part of its business model and success. | $200M | Series E | Feb 19, 2020 | http://www.sentinelone.com |
| AWAIR | Awair's mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely wherever they spend time indoors. The company provides cutting edge technology that is easy to use and understand, as well as an intuitive software platform with actionable insights for IAQ improvement, enabling users to mitigate their indoor air for health and safety, be it athome, school, the workplace, or any other indoor space. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has a second office in Seoul, South Korea. | $10M | Series B | May 07, 2019 | https://getawair.com |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Third Point Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/third-point-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [UpWest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upwest-labs) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Viola FinTech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/viola-fintech) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [DFJ Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfj-growth) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About The Westly Group

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

The Westly Group is focused on investing in the most innovative companies in the energy, transportation and smart building sectors. We are dedicated to finding and funding the best talent in creating a sustainable future.With extensive operating experience in the private and public sectors, from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C. and beyond, TheWestly Group uses its experiences to give firms the momentum they need to achieve their potential.

5 contacts available at The Westly Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Emily Fritze | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-fritze |
| Marie Drez | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marie-drez |
| Megan Cain | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/megan-cain-578d |
| Shaun Chaudhuri | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shaun-chaudhuri |
| Steve Westly | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-westly |

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## FAQ

### What does Steve Westly invest in?

Steve Westly invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 44 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 Westly last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Steve Westly closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 44 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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