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Chloe Steinberg

Early-Stage Investor

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Chloe Steinberg is an experienced early-stage investor based in the New York City Metropolitan Area, with a background in corporate venture capital and growth equity investing. Notable highlights of her career include being a Partner at Sapphire Sport and a Co-Founder at Equinox Ventures, where she led investments in successful startups like Canva and Industrious. Chloe's expertise lies in deal structuring, portfolio management, and trend forecasting, with a focus on sectors such as entertainment & sports, consumer health, and e-commerce. She has invested in a range of companies at various stages, including Hydrant, Spring Health, and Market AI, showcasing her strong track record in identifying and supporting promising startups.

Work Experience 

  • Consumer Investor & Advisor

    2023 - Current

    Seed Investor in and advisor to select early-stage companies, including Canva, Native Pet, Saturn, Maple, etc. Advisor / Venture Partner to select early-stage VC funds, with emphasis on better for you CPG & consumer tech Consultant to select start-ups navigating growth strategy, innovation or strategic pipeline and/or fundraising strategy

  • Partner

    2021 - 2023

    Investing in early-stage companies at the nexus of tech and culture. Includes next-gen media, gaming, health & wellness, commerce, community and other emerging categories enabling the lifestyles of Gen Z & Gen Alpha.

  • Co-Founder + Principal, Equinox Ventures

    2016 - 2021

    Launched and built Equinox Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Equinox Group of brands. Invested in & incubated early stage companies defining the future of high performance living across wellness, beauty, real estate, healthcare, tech and more.

  • Vice President of Business Development

    2017 - 2019

    Supported Equinox's innovation pipeline and concepted/led key launches of critical new business lines, including PROJECT By Equinox, Precision Run and Equinox Media, the digital efforts of the Equinox Group of brands. Supported all COVID strategy and execution.

  • Senior Director Business Development

    2016 - 2017

Equinox is a high growth collective of the worlds influential, experiential, differentiated lifestyle brands.

  • Investor

    2015 - 2016

    Executed strategy for and supported the launch of Vayner Capital, an early-stage VC fund in partnership with Gary Vaynerchuk and several HNW individuals, focused on high-momentum software, consumer internet and CPG. Led the fund's first investment and fund returner in Canva.

  • Growth Equity Investor

    2013 - 2015

    Insight Venture Partners is a leading private equity and venture capital firm investing in growth-stage technology, software and Internet businesses. Founded in 1995, Insight more than $20B in AUM and has made 300+ investments worldwide. While at Insight, I sourced and conducted due diligence for four proprietary investments representing nearly $200M of equity capital invested. Investments include Conga, developer of the Conga Suite of cloud-based document generation and reporting applications for Salesforce, and Fenergo, provider of client on-boarding lifecycle management software for corporate, investment and private banks. I also worked with numerous portfolio companies to source and execute strategic M&A.

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup companies.

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst - TMT Group

    2011 - 2012

  • Sophomore Rotational Program

    2011 - 2011

    Summer Analyst program offering exposure to Investment Banking, Investment Management, Sales & Trading, and Global Investment Research at GS.

Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.

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