Steve Norall
CEO @ Vocal Video | Board Member | Investor
Palo Alto, California
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Locations:
Min Investment:
$5,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
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Education
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- DC
Lists including Steve
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Work Experience
2019
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
2019
Our software makes it "ridiculously" simple for marketers and small businesses to capture and create compelling video testimonials from anyone, anywhere in the world, at any time.
2022
Executive Chairman
2022
Vertical SaaS for the fire protection industry. Inspect Point enables technicians to be more efficient and thorough, allowing them to spot deficiencies and turn that into service work. The company raised a $28M growth equity investment from Mainsail Partners in January, 2022 and I joined the board as the executive chairman.
2021 - 2024
Investor
2021 - 2024
Nebulon makes server-embedded, infrastructure software delivered as-a-service, which offers the benefits of the public cloud on-premises, from core to edge for any application—containerized, virtualized or bare-metal. Acquired by Nvidia.
2020 - 2021
Board Member
2020 - 2021
SourceScrub provides a deal origination platform for investment firms and banks focused on private businesses. Their database helps firms diligence and landscape industries better and allows them to find their next mandate, growth investment or add-on. Mainsail Partners made a growth equity investment in the company in November 2019 and I joined the board as an independent board member. I transitioned off the board when Francisco Partners acquired a controlling stake in the business.
2017 - 2021
Investor and Advisor
2017 - 2021
Pulse Q&A is a community platform for C-Suite IT decision makers. I was one of two founding investors in the business. Acquired by Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT).
2015 - 2018
Chief Product Officer
2015 - 2018
Led product management, growth, product marketing, SEO, email marketing, and demand generation teams for SurveyMonkey's core platform and solution businesses totaling over $200M in annual revenue. I joined the company through the acquisition of TechValidate Software, Inc, the company I co-founded. IPO on NASDAQ (Symbol: SVMK) in 2018.
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
2007 - 2015
TechValidate is a SaaS-based content marketing and customer experience tool. Clients use it to create content quickly and cost-effectively about what their customers say about their product or service. The business has over 300 customer, including HP, IBM, GE, and SAP, across financial services, telecom, technology, and healthcare industries. SurveyMonkey acquired TechValidate in July, 2015.
2013 - 2015
Chairman of the Board and Co-founder
2013 - 2015
Haymaker is a data service that boosts top of the funnel conversion rates by enabling tech marketers to more effectively personalize and target their existing prospects. Haymaker syncs its proprietary purchasing and operations data continuously into your CRM and marketing automation systems.
2001 - 2006
Vice President of Marketing and Product Management
2001 - 2006
Early executive that built out the marketing and product organizations at this Greylock-NEA funded startup. Responsibilities included marketing communications, lead generation, product marketing, and product management for clustered storage software company. Assisted in closing the HP OEM deal that ultimately led to HP acquiring PolyServe as the basis for its Enterprise NAS division.
2000 - 2000
Associate
2000 - 2000
Sourced deals, conducted dilligence, and provided strategic consulting on Internet, software, and infrastructure investments. Companies included: Wily Technologies (acquired by CA), PolyServe (acquired by HP), and NOCPulse (acquired by Red Hat)