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Stephen DeBerry

Founder and Managing Partner at BRONZE

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

  • Founder and Managing Partner

    2009

    Moving social, economic, and environmental disparity to prosperity, profitably.

2006 - 2012

  • Partner

    2006 - 2012

    Kapor Capital is the venture capital arm of the Kapor Center for Social Impact. Kapor Capital invest in gap-­closing info tech start­ups that revolutionize people’s lives across a vast set of industries.

  • Trustee, Investment Committee

    2008 - 2011

    Fiduciary oversight and strategy for $4 billion endowment. Focus on social impact investments that improve health in California communities.

2004 - 2007

  • Director, Investments

    2004 - 2007

    Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Omidyar Network invests in entrepreneurs who share a commitment to advancing social good at the pace and scale the world needs today. We are focused on five key areas we believe are building blocks for prosperous, stable, and open societies: Consumer Internet and Mobile, Education, Financial Inclusion, Government Transparency, and Property Rights. We take calculated risks in the earliest stages of innovation, helping to transform promising ideas into successful ventures. As an active impact investor, we offer more than just financial support. We provide vital human capital capabilities, from serving on boards to consulting on strategy, coaching executives to recruiting new talent. We connect promising investees to entrepreneurial visionaries with business know-how. We also leverage the tremendous capacity of Web and mobile technologies to go beyond incremental improvement and make a significant, widespread impact.

2005 - 2006

  • Board

    2005 - 2006

    Prosper is America's first peer-to-peer lending marketplace, with more than 2 million members and over $5 billion in funded loans.

  • Senior Manager, Business Development

    1997 - 2002

    Founded by Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, Interval Research is a research setting seeking to define the issues, map out the concepts and create the technology that will be important in the future.... [pursuing] basic innovations in a number of early-stage technologies and [seeking] to foster industries around them -- sparking opportunity for entrepreneurs and highlighting a new approach to research.