# Steven Lurie

> Steven Lurie is a seed investor at Team Builder Ventures backing Industrial Automation. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Team Builder Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/team-builder-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenlurie
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/stevenlurie

Steven Lurie is a seed investor at Team Builder Ventures in San Francisco focused on Industrial Automation and Robotics. Steven Lurie is the founder of Team Builder Ventures, which helps founders build and scale world-class teams. The fund invests in the Series A rounds of enterprise software and consumer Internet start-ups led by the top venture capital funds.Previously, Steven was at Zynga for over 4 years and was a member of the company’s Executive Staff. Mostrecently, he was the head of the International group after leading Studio I (India), a game group in Bangalore. Steven was the head of Zynga’s Mobile group before moving to India.Before Zynga, Steven was CEO of Advice Company, one of the Web’s leading legal and insurance advice sites, and worked at several venture-backed start-ups in executive roles and in venture capital. Steven received his JD from Harvard Law School and BA from Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$3.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Industrial Automation | 3 | 38% |
| Robotics | 2 | 25% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 25% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 25% |
| CRM | 1 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| India | 3 | 38% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Culture Biosciences | Culture Biosciences provides a platform of cloud-connected bioreactors, software tools, and process development services that support upstream bioprocess development for biotech and biopharma applications. The company’s offerings include remote experiment design, monitoring, and data analysis through an integrated cloud software interface pairedwith single-use bioreactors for microbial fermentation and cell culture experimentation. Its services encompass clone and strain screening, process optimization, characterization, and bioprocess modeling to help scientific teams refine and scale their workflows. Clients access real-time data and analytics to inform decisions and collaborate across teams using the platform’s tools. Culture Biosciences’s technology is used to advance development of therapeutics, synthetic biology products, and related bioprocesses. Culture Biosciences was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $5.5M |  | Feb 12, 2019 |  |
| Fulfil Solutions | Fulfil develops a custom automation robotics system built to solve food supply chain challenges. Fulfil's mission is to reduce waste, environmental impact, and emissions with truly new technology. Fulfil addresses challenges at the intersection of mechanical design, software, robotics, computer vision, and deep learning. |  | Series A | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| Orbit Fab | Orbit Fab offers a supply of satellite propellant in Earth Orbit that expands the operational potential of new and existing space assets. It develops the infrastructure needed to grow a thriving in-space market for products and services that support both existing space businesses (communications and Earth observation) and new industries like spacetourism, manufacturing, and mining. The future for satellites is no longer restricted to the fuel they are launched with. Orbit Fab was founded in 2018 by its Co-Founders Daniel Faber and Jeremy Schiel. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 28, 2018 |  |
| Openprise | Openprise is a data orchestration platform that automates the manual processes that sales and marketing automation solutions.With Openprise, data-driven marketing and sales teams can simplify their martech stack with a single platform to automate hundreds of business processes like list loading, cleansing and enrichment, account scoring, and manymore. Openprise is designed from the ground up for CRM, so it has all the best practices, business logic, and data companies need to clean up their data, focus on the right targets, and scale up their operations to grow revenue faster. | $3.2M | Seed | Sep 01, 2017 |  |
| Arch Systems | Arch works with top-tier global manufacturers to extract data from any machine and drive uniform metrics for enhanced productivity and predictive analytics. We focus on the electronics manufacturing supply chains, digitizing both greenfield and brownfield factories. Using the Arch Utilization Suite, manufacturers are achieving real,state-of-the-art 20-40% machine utilization improvements.Arch provides one of the largest surface mount technology (SMT) machine connector libraries in the world and has partnerships with the leading PCB manufacturing machine vendors. We are deployed on 5 continents and connected to thousands of machines inside the facilities of 5 of the world's top 10 electronics manufacturers.Arch began by monitoring wells in Tanzania, Africa where cutting-edge IIOT technology was developed to make older machines smart. A core part of our mission is to continue making these and other building blocks of technology available for sustainable development, including monitoring wells for access to clean drinking water and projects promoting sustainable industrialization for all nations. | $2.1M | Seed | Apr 15, 2016 |  |
| Yumist | Yumist is a food tech company that offers homely meals under 30 minutes. It takes delivery orders through our Android and iOS apps, as well as through its website. Yumist application enables customers to place their orders in a few taps or clicks and a steamy, fresh meal is sent to them in no time at all.Yumist was founded in 2014 isheadquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. | $2M | Seed | Dec 09, 2015 |  |
| ZipGo | Zipgo provides comfortable, convenient, reliable, safe and affordable urban transportation option for the masses. | $3M | Seed | Jan 01, 2015 |  |
| MissMalini Entertainment | MissMalini Entertainment is a multi-platform new media network dedicated to Entertaining, Connecting & Empowering young Indians. |  | Angel | Feb 01, 2011 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Orios Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orios-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Array Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/array-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bolt](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bolt-io) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Comet Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comet-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fluxus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fluxus-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Merus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/merus-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Team Builder Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Team Builder Ventures is a venture capital fund that helps founders build teams. It aims to make investments in startups focused on developments in enterprise software and consumer internet. offer team building as a value-add for our investments. The fund invests in the most compelling early-stage enterprise software and consumer Internetstart-ups led by the top venture capital funds. It was founded by Steven Lurie in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

1 contacts available at Team Builder Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Steven Lurie | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-lurie |

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## FAQ

### What does Steven Lurie invest in?

Steven Lurie invests primarily in Industrial Automation, Robotics and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Angel 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.

### What is Steven Lurie's check size?

Steven Lurie typically joins rounds of $2M–$3.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Steven Lurie participates in.

### When did Steven Lurie last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Steven Lurie closed in Feb 2019. 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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