# Steven Michau

> Steven Michau is a debt financing investor at Espresso Capital (Toronto) backing Pet and Apps. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Espresso Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/espresso-capital-partners)
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-michau-8917321/

Steven Michau is an Executive Director on Espresso Capital’s origination team and brings more than 20 years of experience financing growth-stage and middle-market companies across the United States and Europe. During that time, he has helped management teams structure financing solutions to meet key objectives. Prior to joining Espresso, Steven waswith Ares Management, a diversified investment manager, where he provided senior debt, junior debt, and select equity investments to technology and healthcare companies at various stages of development. Previous to that, he was the director of corporate development for Huron Consulting Group, a public consulting firm, and a vice president with GE Capital’s commercial finance group.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pet | 1 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| EdTech | 1 | 25% |
| Consumer | 1 | 25% |

15 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Voxy | Voxy provides truly personalized English language instruction to corporations, educational institutions, and governments across the globe. Based on more than 30 years of academic research, Voxy’s solution meets the needs of each user by combining patented technology that adapts lessons in real-time with personalized live instruction all deliveredin a fully mobile experience. Launched in 2010, it has been used by millions of learners and hundreds of institutions in over 50 different countries. Voxy’s innovative approach has been recognized by major media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN. Backed by leading investors in education technology, Voxy is headquartered in New York City and has an office in São Paulo. | $10M | Debt Financing | Jun 14, 2022 |  |
| Transifex | Transifex is a localization automation platform that powers the process of launching digital products and content into multiple languages. Built for companies with rapid development cycles, Transifex's SaaS platform lets developers store global content and create a continuous localization workflow. Through the Transifex API and Git-likecommand-line client, developers can ensure that new content is always translated, and the latest translations are included with each release. This means faster time-to-market, less strain on engineering, and a better user experience. Founded in 2009 after being incubated in Google’s Summer of Code, Transifex has teams on two continents and customers in over 30 countries, localizing content into more than 100 languages. |  | Debt Financing | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Chatbooks | Each year, we collectively take 3 trillion photos on our phone—and most of those memories get lost in a digital abyss, never to see the light of day. Chatbooks is on a mission to make creating a photo book as easy as taking a picture. The $8 photo books, which automatically pull photos from your Instagram, Facebook, and Camera Roll via 5-StariPhone and Android apps, are designed to tell the ongoing story of your life with zero effort: Over 100,000 users are actively subscribed to get new Chatbooks with every 60 photos they take, and will buy over 1 million books by the end of 2015. Today, our experiences and memories are more valuable than ever—and Chatbooks helps you hold on to what matters. | $9M | Debt Financing | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Wild Earth | Wild Earth is a technology startup that specializes in developing protein pet foods. It is dedicated to reinventing pet food with science to offer healthier foods for pets that are better for the environment and more humane than conventional products. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California. | $10M | Debt Financing | Jan 21, 2022 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Employee Stock Option Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eso-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Espresso Capital

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Espresso Capital has provided over 230 early and growth stage technology companies with founder-friendly capital since 2009. It offers lines of credit and term loans to enable entrepreneurs to grow their businesses without dilution, board seats, or personal guarantees. Its mission is to keep founders in control with fast, fair, and flexiblecapital.

5 contacts available at Espresso Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gordon Henderson | Managing Director, Portfolio Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gordon-henderson-bbc6 |
| James Langford | Associate Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-langford-2e4d |
| Steven Michau | Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-michau-7eae |
| Will Hutchins | Head of Originations & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/will-hutchins |
| Alkarim Jivraj | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alkarim-jivraj |

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## FAQ

### What does Steven Michau invest in?

Steven Michau invests primarily in Pet, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Debt Financing stage. Most of the 4 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 Steven Michau last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Steven Michau closed in Jun 2022. Shizune tracks 4 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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