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Stephen Roland

Founder of Dev

Brooklyn, New York

Overview 

Stephen Roland is a Co-Founder at Dev-Docs and has a notable background as an Ex-Stripe Startup Partner Lead. With a Master of Business Administration from NYU Stern School of Business, he has expertise in venture capital, business development, and social media marketing. Highlights of Stephen's career include co-founding Dev-Docs and serving as a Startup Partner Lead at Stripe, showcasing his entrepreneurial spirit and leadership in the startup ecosystem. His diverse skill set includes market research, management, and expertise in sectors such as cosmetics, fashion, retail, and digital health.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder

    2023 - Current

    Building the future of developer documentation

  • Startup Partner Lead

    2022 - 2023

Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.

Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.

  • Mentor

    2022 - 2023

Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.

Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.

  • Senior Investment Associate

    2021 - 2022

  • Investment Associate

    2020 - 2021

An early and growth stage investment firm backing disruptive innovation in Consumer, Healthcare and Wellness brands.

  • Business Development Advisor

    2020 - 2020

    School16 is an education program designed to help you understand the types of jobs in tech that are the best fit for you, what's currently in high demand, how each role functions, and what skills you need to develop to land a fulfilling job in this sector.

  • MBA Fellow

    2019 - 2020

    InSITE Fellows are selected from top graduate schools (Columbia, Harvard, NYU, MIT, Stanford) and, over the course of a two year fellowship, help founders and VC firms identify and solve strategic challenges and pave the way to accelerate growth. To date, InSITE companies have raised more than $750 million of disclosed funding and enjoyed numerous successful exits.

A highly competitive leadership development program comprised of exceptional graduate students at top universities

  • MBA Venture Partner

    2019 - 2020

    Contrary is a venture fund that identifies the world’s top early-career engineers, designers, and product minds, connects them with a close-knit, career-long support community, and invests in companies they start or join. Backed by the founders of Tesla, Reddit, Facebook, Twitch, SoFi, MuleSoft, and many more iconic companies.

Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm. We back a small number of exceptional people and the companies they build.

  • MBA Venture Associate

    2019 - 2020

  • MBA Intern - Advanced Advertising Product (Viacom Vantage)

    2019 - 2019

  • Strategy & Ops MBA Intern

    2019 - 2019

    Ribbon is a modern financial technology company transforming the real estate transaction by delivering certainty, transparency and joy to the home buying process. Consumers and realtors deserve a better experience, and we have designed an open platform that welcomes everyone in the home process to participate.

Ribbon Home is a real estate platform that allows users to sell and purchase products by sharing a unique showcase link.

Raised $905,000,000.00 from Thomvest Ventures, NFX, Guy Gal, Nyca Partners, TriplePoint Capital, Greenspring Associates, Jake Seid, First American, Bain Capital Ventures and Gregor Watson.

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