Steve Gledden is a Venture Capital and Private Equity investor, scale-up entrepreneur, business owner, and active angel investor.

He is Managing Partner of Straight Bat Private Equity, a Venture Partner with Antler VC’s Sydney Generator Fund, Venture Partner with Forward Partners in London, former Seedcamp EIR, NED/Exec Chairman to Seedcamp Portfolio companies, 500 Startups Mentor and advisor. He is ex McKinsey & Company, citysearch.com (NASAQ: IAC), and VP Idealab startup incubator. He built an exited a life sciences contract laboratory (EML sold to ASX:ALS in 2011). Developed built and sold Judges Court Hotel (sold to Lake Merritt Hospitality in 2019)

He has been a founder, held senior positions (CEO, President, VP) in scale-ups, been a NED/Chairman and Advisor to 13 startups and has helped raise over $100 million in the US, Australia and the UK. He has been involved in a range of industries including banking, resources, building products, chemicals, digital publishing, retail, internet banking, media, technology transfer, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, life sciences, industrial services, music licensing, genomics, IoT consumer appliances, hotels and hospitality, aged care SaaS, legal tech, autonomous vehicles, eSports venues, cybersecurity SaaS, logistics SaaS, mining instrumentation, insure tech, private equity and venture capital. 

B.Com/B.Sc (Chemistry) Melbourne, MBA Oxford.