Steve Beck
General Partner at Serra Ventures Funds
Solana Beach, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2024 - Current
Consultant
2024
General Partner
2016 - 2024
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.
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
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
Investor and 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.
Investor and 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.
Investor
2021
Investor
2020
Mast Reforestation is a tech-led reforestation company that provides seedling, project management, and carbon removal credits for forests.
Raised $58,889,999.00 from Pulse Fund.
Investor
2019