Nina Stepanov

Helping teams build better AI products @ Freeplay

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Angel Investor
Sep 2019
Various board memberships
Board Observer
Apr 2019
Outlast is disrupting the largest market you’ve never heard of. The bulk recyclables industry is a ~$1 trillion industry – yet is largely a technological desert. Outlast is transforming recyclables trade through technology. Our platform enables suppliers and buyers to safely and effortlessly transact their materials at the push of a button. Beyond connecting suppliers and buyers, we also provide global logistics, financing, and quality control. As a company, we are keenly focused on optimizing the customer experience and doing good for the environment by promoting recycling. On the latter, the proof is in the facts: recycling 1 ton of material is the equivalent to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of more than 7,000 miles in a passenger car. Outlast is poised for explosive growth having recently completed our Series A fundraise from top investment firms. Join our team! - https://www.outlast.earth/careers
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2022
Scout
Nov 2022
CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 750 startups at their most crucial stages, including Airtable, DoorDash and Vercel. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.
2019
Angel Investor
Sep 2019
Various board memberships
Board Observer
Apr 2019
Outlast is disrupting the largest market you’ve never heard of. The bulk recyclables industry is a ~$1 trillion industry – yet is largely a technological desert. Outlast is transforming recyclables trade through technology. Our platform enables suppliers and buyers to safely and effortlessly transact their materials at the push of a button. Beyond connecting suppliers and buyers, we also provide global logistics, financing, and quality control. As a company, we are keenly focused on optimizing the customer experience and doing good for the environment by promoting recycling. On the latter, the proof is in the facts: recycling 1 ton of material is the equivalent to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of more than 7,000 miles in a passenger car. Outlast is poised for explosive growth having recently completed our Series A fundraise from top investment firms. Join our team! - https://www.outlast.earth/careers
2017
Principal
Nov 2017
Forum Ventures is the leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program. With over 400 portfolio companies, Forum founders have gone on to raise ~$1B in follow-on funding from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncork Capital, 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures, Canaan, Bowery Capital, Susa Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SV Angel, True Ventures and many more. Learn more at www.forumvc.com Looking for more founder-focused advice? Subscribe to The Midnight Text -- a bi-weekly newsletter that provides honest answers to the unspoken questions that keep founders awake at (mid)night. https://midnighttext.substack.com/
Venture Capital Industry Writer
Feb 2017
VentureFizz is the leading authority for jobs & careers in the tech industry. We have the top Job Board focused on our industry featuring thousands of job opportunities across all functional areas. We are also your company discovery platform, where we help you navigate the tech industry to discover what companies align with your interests and values. Our profiles and videos are another key resource, as they give you the inside look at a company, its people, and culture.
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