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Steve Hale

Venture Scout at Headline

Vineyard, Utah

Overview

Work Experience

  • Venture Scout

    2023 - Current

    Working with Headline’s consumer tech team to source and identify Seed – Series B investments across B2C, B2B2C and marketplace landscapes in North America. Looking to invest in companies showing signs of product market fit which often exhibit characteristics including a highly engaged userbase, strong usage and revenue retention, clear willingness to pay (typically $1m+ in ARR), an advantaged customer acquisition model, a structural distribution advantage, network effects that can compound over time, unparalleled consumer love, and a path to a fundamentally strong business model with high margins and solid unit economics. Sectors of interest include marketplaces, passion economy, eCommerce, lifestyle, fashion, travel, dating, food tech, fitness, health and wellness, digital health, pets, education, fintech, media, entertainment, and gaming. Headline most recently raised $950 million to invest in early-stage technology companies. Some of the consumer tech companies we’ve backed early include Gopuff, Sonos, Bumble, Sorare, Scopely, Acorns, Farfetch, and TheRealReal.

  • Founder

    2021

    Some of the products, causes and founders I care about, believe in and have personally backed: Amano Angel Studios BallerTV Barcode Black Box Fiction Foods Food Nerd Freaks of Nature Gamify Gauge Graza Hyperice Into the Multiverse Lovage Momentous Oats Overnight Olipop Phi Rorra Scout Slate Sundays Cookies Sundays for Dogs Torus Wander

  • Head of Operations

    2022 - 2023

  • Head of Operations & Finance

    2019 - 2022

  • Associate

    2016 - 2019

  • Operations & Venture

    2013 - 2016

  • Founder

    2012 - 2015

  • Analyst

    2012 - 2013

  • Micro-enterprise Educator & Consultant

    2011 - 2011

  • Classroom Instructor & Tutor (Spanish)

    2010 - 2011

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