Steve Goldberg
Partner at Finistere Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2025 - Current
DYDX is investing in the Data Supercycle by investing early in companies using data to solve hard problems.
Board Director
2023
The CropX agronomic farm management system is an easy-to-use integrated hardware and software system that connects farm data, real-time conditions and agronomic knowledge to provide guidance for successful and sustainable farming, while aggregating all agronomic farm data in one place for easy tracking and sharing.
Board Director
2022
Backbar designs, manufactures, and sells beverage dispensing products for the global restaurant and food service industry.
Board Observer
2021
Taranis provides crop advisory services to farmers and growers using a range of sensors and data sources. Leaf-level precision insights are derived and available through a cloud infrastructure.
Taranis is a crop intelligence and precision agriculture technology that provides digital monitoring, reporting, and verification services.
Raised $99,550,000.00 from iAngels, Vertex Growth Fund, Vertex Ventures Israel, K3 Ventures, La Maison Partners, Viola Ventures, Eyal Gura, Cavallo Ventures, Presidio Ventures and Seraphim Space.
Advisor
2020
AI-based service industry software that accelerates inbound problem triage, diagnosis, and overall service delivery.
Bruviti is applying unique AI and ML technologies to diagnose service problems quickly and accurately for support and service teams.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Marcone Supply.
President
2020
Business and Technology Executive. Markets supported include wireless communications, 5G, IoT, physical and cyber security, signal processing, embedded systems, automotive, telematics, and in general, deep tech. Also provide Expert Witness support for IP/Patent litigation for wireless, GPS, telematics, and RF-related cases.
Board Director
2019
Independent board member, Chairman Compensation Committee. SolidPower is focused on the design and manufacture of solid electrolyte lithium batteries for use in a variety of applications including electric vehicles.
Solid Power is a developer of all-solid-state battery cells that provide enhancements over traditional lithium-ion batteries.
Raised $437,249,982.00 from US Department of Energy and ARPA-E.
Advisor
2018
Alcatraz ai is a product company focused on designing, manufacturing, and selling a facial authentication platform for Enterprise and SMB customers to enable highly secure and frictionless physical access.
Alcatraz is an AI company that leverages the enterprise access control environment by enabling touchless and secure entry.
Raised $44,900,000.00 from Almaz Capital, Ray Stata, SeedBlink, JCI Ventures, Silverline Capital, EBRD Venture Capital, Golden Seeds, Endeavor Catalyst, LDV Partners and Bossa Invest.
Partner
2021 - 2025
Investing partner at early-stage venture capital firm; focused on technology-based companies involved in agriculture, supply chain, finance, robotics, security, enterprise software, etc.
Finistere Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks investments in the agriculture sector.
Advisor
2020 - 2025
Accern accelerates AI workflows for financial service enterprises with a no-code AI platform. The best data teams from the world's leading organizations, such as Allianz, IBM, and Jefferies, are using Accern to build and deploy AI use cases powered by their adaptive NLP and forecasting features.
Enable superhuman efficiency across the global workforce with NLP
Raised $34,755,000.00 from Fusion Fund, Tribe Capital, Viaduct Ventures, Roman Smolevskiy, Network.VC, Shasta Ventures, Red Hook Capital and Gaingels.