Steve Place

Accelerate everything | IMINT | Space | Mfg.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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Feb 2026
For decades companies have relied on archaic tools to inform decisions and make bets on the future. Until now. Fundamental empowers businesses to turn gambles into guarantees and determine their future with far greater accuracy than ever before. Built by DeepMind alumni and trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises, NEXUS is our most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM). By revealing the hidden language of tables, NEXUS unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict™.
Investor
Feb 2026
The Nuclear Company is leading the modernization of nuclear construction to deploy fleet-scale nuclear power across America. By integrating proven reactor technologies with digital innovation and economies of scale, the company aims to reduce costs and shorten deployment timelines. The Nuclear Company is committed to delivering safe baseload electricity at the lowest cost, while catalyzing the nuclear industry toward rapid development in America and globally.
Advisor & Investor
Jun 2025
HEO delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery and insights on the most important assets in space. We are building out a network of non-Earth imaging (NEI) sensors by partnering with Earth observation satellite constellations and launching our own cameras as hosted payloads to achieve proliferation of NEI sensors across all orbits in the Earth-Moon system. HEO deploys highly autonomous software to inspect satellites at scale for government, defence, and commercial customers. We are headquartered in Australia with offices in the UK and USA.
Investor
Dec 2024
Deterrence is a defense technology company focused on automating the production of reliable, safe energetics at scale.
Advisor & Investor
Jan 2024
Intalus harnesses integrative materials technology in the pursuit of the next generation of manufacturing. We do not follow the old playbook. We are industry disruptors, reshaping the landscape of material enhancement. Our proprietary methods transcend conventional coatings and alloys, providing unparalleled solutions for corrosion, erosion, wear, and thermal distortion. We amplify the true potential of a metal across diverse applications in defense, general industry, energy, space, and aerospace. Our pioneering processes and materials integration put us in a whole new category for manufacturing. Intalus is a global company headquartered in the U.S.
mid stageManufacturing
Investor
Oct 2023
Sedaro empowers engineers and organizations to unlock their full potential through our cloud-scalable simulation technology. We push the boundaries of system simulation, enabling breakthrough designs and optimized performance beyond what’s thought possible today.
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Aug 2023
Manifest was founded by a group of leading experts in computational neuroimaging and psychiatry at Yale Universitys School of Medicine. Our goal is to transform therapeutic development, diagnosis and treatment for CNS disorders. The company is advancing the worlds first AI-powered computational neuroimaging system that quantifies neural and symptom data to create and choose the right therapy for the right patient at the right time.
Investor
Oct 2022
US payroll, EOR, Contractor Management and Global Bill Pay in one platform for a global workforce. Hire, onboard, pay, and manage your team anywhere in the world, with full compliance.
Investor
Aug 2021
Our story is simple. One co-founder grew up with skin issues. The other built products for the worlds most prestigious brands. Together, we built Huron to offer world-class products at down-to-earth prices. All of our products are made with science-backed, clean ingredients, and are 100% vegan and never tested on animals. Were here to help you help yourself.
early stageManufacturing
Senior Policy Advisor & Investor
May 2020
AstroForge is a deep-space mining company on a mission to extract valuable metals from asteroids. By bringing space resources into Earths supply chain, were aiming to reduce the need for traditional terrestrial mining methods and explore a more sustainable future - one mission at a time.
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Investments (12)
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2026
Investor
Feb 2026
For decades companies have relied on archaic tools to inform decisions and make bets on the future. Until now. Fundamental empowers businesses to turn gambles into guarantees and determine their future with far greater accuracy than ever before. Built by DeepMind alumni and trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises, NEXUS is our most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM). By revealing the hidden language of tables, NEXUS unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict™.
Investor
Feb 2026
The Nuclear Company is leading the modernization of nuclear construction to deploy fleet-scale nuclear power across America. By integrating proven reactor technologies with digital innovation and economies of scale, the company aims to reduce costs and shorten deployment timelines. The Nuclear Company is committed to delivering safe baseload electricity at the lowest cost, while catalyzing the nuclear industry toward rapid development in America and globally.
2025
Advisor & Investor
Jun 2025
HEO delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery and insights on the most important assets in space. We are building out a network of non-Earth imaging (NEI) sensors by partnering with Earth observation satellite constellations and launching our own cameras as hosted payloads to achieve proliferation of NEI sensors across all orbits in the Earth-Moon system. HEO deploys highly autonomous software to inspect satellites at scale for government, defence, and commercial customers. We are headquartered in Australia with offices in the UK and USA.
2024
Investor
Dec 2024
Deterrence is a defense technology company focused on automating the production of reliable, safe energetics at scale.
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