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About Us
Redefining early growth capital.
We provide founders of rapidly growing SaaS and technology-enabled services companies with a unique balance of capital and help.
Scale your sales & marketing, hire your first professional executives, better leverage your systems and processes, adopt best practices, expand your addressable market, and even acquire a competitor or complementary business.
Hit the accelerator without losing control.
Come join us on Growth Street.
Growth Street Investments
Entrepreneur
Founders lived the problem their business is now solving
Industry
Vertical SaaS and technology-enabled services companies
Geography
Across the U.S. with a focus on underserved markets
Company Size
$1-5 million of annual run-rate recurring revenue
Investment Size
$3-10 million
Portfolio
Founders
Things about me
- I believe curiosity is key to professional success and personal fulfillment. I love partnering with and learning from curious entrepreneurs.
- I am involved in Juma Ventures, a great non-profit/social enterprise; its mission is inspiring.
- I played golf competitively growing up and was the co-captain of the Columbia golf team.
- Given the opportunity, I am happy to name the entire 1986 New York Mets roster, including the coaching staff.
- Nate and I are pretty evenly matched in ping pong. A lot of our best business ideas come in the middle of very close matches.
Steve co-founded Growth Street Partners with Nate Grossman. Together, Steve and Nate currently sit on the Boards of Pear Deck, ChildCareCRM, Visual Lease, and Hotel Effectiveness. Steve has extensive experience investing behind founders of vertical-focused B2B SaaS and technology-enabled services companies.
Prior to Growth Street, Steve was a Partner at Mainsail Partners, a growth equity firm based in San Francisco. Steve was previously a Board member at PayLease (sold to Francisco Partners), Netchemia (sold to PeopleAdmin), 3PL Central, Ncontracts, and nCourt (subsequently sold to Providence Equity). While a Board member, three of the companies successfully completed add-on acquisitions: Netchemia-SchoolSpring, Ncontracts-Strohl, and 3PL Central-iTracker. Prior to Mainsail, Steve led investment sourcing for Vector Capital, a multi-billion dollar technology private equity firm, where he helped to source three platform investments. He began his career as an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston and Merrill Lynch.
In 2018, Steve joined the Board of Juma Ventures, a San Francisco-based non-profit and social enterprise, to help at-risk youth. He earned a BA from Columbia University.
- I got my master’s degree in Social Psychology. I love learning about how people make decisions and how seemingly small cues can have outsized impacts.
- I believe strongly in the Growth Mindset. I want to work with entrepreneurs who are driven by learning.
- I am the third oldest of six siblings. At any given time one of us is almost definitely on a tennis court.
- I never lose to Steve in ping-pong.
Nate co-founded Growth Street Partners with Steve Wolfe. Together, Nate and Steve currently sit on the Boards of Pear Deck, ChildCareCRM, Visual Lease, and Hotel Effectiveness. Nate has extensive experience investing behind founders of vertical-focused B2B SaaS and technology-enabled services companies.
Prior to Growth Street, he was on the investment team at Mainsail Partners, a growth equity firm based in San Francisco. While at Mainsail, Nate sourced the firm’s platform investments in Ncontracts and 3PL Central and 3PL Central’s add-on acquisition of iTracker. He was a Board Observer at 3PL Central.
He lives in San Francisco and volunteers as a youth mentor at Huckleberry Youth Programs. Nate received a BA and MA from Stanford University.