Rose Steinberg

Changing the way companies and candidates approach recruiting. Ex-Yahoo!, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-Vox Media, Ex-Verizon Media, Ex-Innovid, Ex-Doubleverify. EIR @ Progress Partners.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Board Member
May 2025
BABL is the first prosperity platform for powerful women. We’re built for operators who are focused on driving better commercial and career outcomes for themselves, and for each other. We exist to advance female access to opportunity: whether its the executive floor, transformational deals, investment opportunities, or the moments that move careers and companies. BABL is an intimate group of senior leaders, board members, creators, founders, and investors. Were for women who are building something, leading something, or funding something, and who believe the fastest way up is to bring others with you. Through a curated community focused on commercial outcomes, funding and investment access, and skill development, were building the operating infrastructure for powerful women to do business together.
Angel Investor
Nov 2024
MadConnect is the Intelligent Connectivity Layer (ICL) powering the new era of modern marketing and advertising. Purpose-built to unify fragmented tech stacks, it enables platform-platform connectivity across the MarTech ecosystem within hours - without rebuilding or engineering lift. With native support for Model-Context Protocol (MCP), MadConnect AI-enables existing marketing stacks to immediately deliver agentic automation and intelligent workflows across businesses - securely and at scale. MadConnect Professional Services helps organizations accelerate implementation, refine data strategy, and unlock the full value of their existing marketing and advertising infrastructure. Founded in 2021, MadConnect is a trusted partner to leading agencies, brands, data providers, and platforms. To learn more, visit madconnect.ai.
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
AI is transforming our world, and it requires immense amounts of data. At 375ai, we aim to establish the world’s first and largest decentralized edge data intelligence network. Leveraging advanced AI and blockchain technology, we enable real-time data processing and analysis, ensuring data privacy and enhanced experiences for people around the world.
Angel Investor
Jan 2022
Zack Abbott, PhD microbiologist, founded ZBiotics because of the potential genetically engineered probiotics have to improve daily living. Our first product is a probiotic that helps you feel better the day after drinking alcohol. ZBiotics is leveraging its patented technology to create a whole new category of products that help our bodies deal with whatever modern life throws our way. It’s genetic engineering as it should be: transparent, responsible, and people first.
Angel Investor
Feb 2018
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2025
Board Member
May 2025
BABL is the first prosperity platform for powerful women. We’re built for operators who are focused on driving better commercial and career outcomes for themselves, and for each other. We exist to advance female access to opportunity: whether its the executive floor, transformational deals, investment opportunities, or the moments that move careers and companies. BABL is an intimate group of senior leaders, board members, creators, founders, and investors. Were for women who are building something, leading something, or funding something, and who believe the fastest way up is to bring others with you. Through a curated community focused on commercial outcomes, funding and investment access, and skill development, were building the operating infrastructure for powerful women to do business together.
2024
Angel Investor
Nov 2024
MadConnect is the Intelligent Connectivity Layer (ICL) powering the new era of modern marketing and advertising. Purpose-built to unify fragmented tech stacks, it enables platform-platform connectivity across the MarTech ecosystem within hours - without rebuilding or engineering lift. With native support for Model-Context Protocol (MCP), MadConnect AI-enables existing marketing stacks to immediately deliver agentic automation and intelligent workflows across businesses - securely and at scale. MadConnect Professional Services helps organizations accelerate implementation, refine data strategy, and unlock the full value of their existing marketing and advertising infrastructure. Founded in 2021, MadConnect is a trusted partner to leading agencies, brands, data providers, and platforms. To learn more, visit madconnect.ai.
2022
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
AI is transforming our world, and it requires immense amounts of data. At 375ai, we aim to establish the world’s first and largest decentralized edge data intelligence network. Leveraging advanced AI and blockchain technology, we enable real-time data processing and analysis, ensuring data privacy and enhanced experiences for people around the world.
Investor
Aug 2022
Send, Pay, and Bank with Paga. Paga Group is a payments and financial services ecosystem for Africa. We focus on helping consumers and sellers pay, get paid, and access financial services. We also offer our platform as a service to third-party partners.
Limited Partner
Aug 2022
C2 Ventures is the original investment firm in industries that are often considered dirty, dull, and dangerous. We are a specialized early-stage venture capital firm that invests exclusively in enterprise SaaS companies and robotics that apply artificial intelligence to transform industries characterized by dirt, dullness, and danger. We believe the next wave of enterprise value creation will emerge not from flashy consumer apps but from practical solutions to real-world problems in overlooked sectors: construction, manufacturing, waste management, logistics, field service, and similar industries where work is hard and software adoption remains low. Our portfolio reflects our conviction that AI, both predictive and generative, delivers the most value when embedded thoughtfully into existing workflows. Two-thirds of our companies employ machine learning as core technology, half utilize computer vision for real-time data collection, and 40% of our recent investments leverage generative AI capabilities. What sets our companies apart isnt just technological sophistication but their unwavering focus on the end user: creating interfaces non-technical personnel can quickly grasp, reporting tools that mirror existing business processes, and delivering AI-generated insights in formats that directly connect to bottom-line results. We partner with founders who understand that in the dirty, dull, and dangerous sectors, successful AI integration isnt about replacing human workers; its about amplifying their capabilities with tools designed for how they actually work.
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