Steve Beck
General Partner at Serra Ventures Funds
San Diego County, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2015 - Current
Serra Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies in emerging Midwest technology centers and selected other geographies. Sectors we focus on include information technology, devices/instrumentation and agricultural technologies.
Lead Co-Investor and Former Director
2000
Stephen was an early-stage, lead investor and Director of Baidu. Baidu is China's leading technology company providing Chinese language web search. With over a $40b market capitalization, Baidu now offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online collaboratively built encyclopedia, and a searchable keyword-based discussion forum.[
Director
2022
Barn2Door provides a vertical SaaS solution that allows farmers to manage direct local sales.
Raised $16,285,000.00 from Decathlon Capital Partners.
Board Observer
2019
VeriSIM Life is a computational bioplatform that predicts the clinical outcomes of new drugs before clinical trials.
Raised $21,655,908.00 from Debiopharm Innovation Fund, Serra Ventures, Intel Capital, Morpheus Ventures, OCA Ventures and Susa Ventures.
Board Observer
2021
SWARM enables devices to intelligently collaborate, optimizing processes automatically.
Raised $3,214,852.00 from Trailhead Capital.
Board Observer
2019
GoSite provides a cloud-based software suite that helps small businesses stay connected with their customers.
Raised $59,800,000.00 from Connetic Ventures.
Investor and Former Advisor
2011
PayStand empowers anyone to take credit card payments online, even without a merchant account. Like Square for online transactions, PayStand helps independent merchants quickly, easily and effectively sell online.
Paystand is a cloud-based billing and payment platform for B2B companies.
Raised $98,000,000.00 from Open Opportunity Fund, Transform Capital, NewView Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Industrious Ventures and King River Capital.
Investor
2019
Evisort is an AI-powered platform for managing contracts through their lifecycle, including creation, analysis, and reporting.
Raised $155,794,988.00 from General Atlantic, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Amity Ventures, Breyer Capital, Vertex Ventures and TCV.
Investor
2022
Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines.
Raised $10,500,000.00 from Matt Barnard, Andros, Serra Ventures, Lee Redden, SNR.vc, Travis Deyle, Acre Venture Partners, Fall Line Capital, The E14 Fund and Congruent Ventures.
Investor
2021