Steve Vassallo

Steve Vassallo is a General Partner at Foundation Capital. His official profile describes his investing approach as sitting at the intersection of design, technology, and business, with a focus on products that meet real user needs and can become large businesses. He invests across Foundation Capital’s practice areas and co-leads the firm’s crypto practice, with companies spanning enterprise, fintech, frontier technology, and design. His listed investments include Anomalo, Bolt Threads, Cerebras Systems, Control4, Framer, KeeperTax, Loft Orbital, Mantle, Mode, Northstar, OAK Networks, Pocket, Portals, PrivateCore, Simple Habit, Stripe, Sunrun, and Threads, and he co-led investments in Brave, ForUsAll, Outerbounds, and Solana. Before joining Foundation in 2007, he helped launch Ning and served as its vice president of product and engineering. Earlier, he was director of engineering at Immersion and worked as a project leader and design engineer at IDEO. He holds degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Stanford University, and Stanford GSB.