Steve O'Hara

Founder, Managing Partner at Valley Capital Partners

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 34 investments📅 30 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Aug 2026
ArchiBoost AI is an AI-powered co-pilot for architects, engineers, developers, and general contractors. We help teams navigate complex building codes, activate institutional knowledge, and automatically review drawing sets for coordination risks — reducing RFIs, rework, and permitting delays. Built by AEC professionals, for AEC professionals.
Investor
Apr 2026
Better customer outcomes start with GTM teams seeing the same picture. But the signals behind that picture are often scattered across people, systems, and AI agents, creating the Context Gap. SciFin’s Context Convergence brings those signals together into a shared understanding, and puts it to work, giving your GTM team the confidence to execute flawlessly.
Investor
Mar 2026
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
Lead Investor
Feb 2026
Canotera is redefining how disputes are understood and resolved. Backed by leading venture investors, Canotera harnesses the power of AI and machine learning to deliver best-in-class analytics across the dispute resolution ecosystem — bringing transparency, visibility, and strategic insight to every decision.
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Aug 2025
Cato delivers the only converged network and security cloud for the AI era. We bring networking, security, and access together in one cloud-native SASE platform, giving enterprises visibility, context, and control across users, applications, data, and AI agents while reducing the operational complexity of fragmented tools.
Series A Investor
Jul 2025
Our efficient systems-level AI infrastructure enables a tenfold improvement in both training and inferencing of the largest generative models. Leveraging these capabilities, Decart is able to train its own foundational generative interactive models and make it accessible for everyone in real-time.
Lead Series A Investor
May 2025
Paxel AI provides actionable sales intelligence to the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
Lead Series A Investor
Apr 2025
Currently working on something new and very exciting
Series A Investor
Aug 2024
Were now part of Cato Networks! Were as committed as ever to helping organizations secure their AI transformation by securing and governing every AI interaction, from 3rd party AI usage to homegrown AI-powered applications and agents. AI Security is available as part of the Cato Platform as either a stand-alone offering or in combination with other SASE capabilities. For all the latest - make sure to follow @cato-networks on LinkedIn or visit www.catonetworks.com
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Apr 2024
For organizations that want to be resilient and ahead of the curve in the post-AI world, Factify is the first Document-as-Infrastructure platform, turning static documents into governed, intelligent assets that carry their own access control, version history, and automation.
 Unlike PDFs, unprotected, untraceable, and blind to AI - Factify upgrades every document, establishing the necessary infrastructure for secure, AI-ready enterprises.
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Oct 2023
RapidCanvas is the trusted partner for transforming your business with AI, pioneering the only hybrid enterprise AI platform that combines autonomous agents with human experts. We make enterprise-grade AI accessible to all organizations, helping them unlock the hidden value in their data without requiring the technical expertise or massive investment it used to take. Our unique approach delivers measurable business outcomes 10X faster at 80% lower cost compared to traditional solutions, turning what was once impossible into practical, everyday reality. RapidCanvas works with industry leaders in manufacturing, retail and consumer goods, financial services, and infrastructure to drive real business transformation over agentic AI hype. Recognized as a top 5 Data Science and Machine Learning platform by independent research firm G2 for customer satisfaction. Visit rapidcanvas.ai to learn more or connect with us on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X.
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Mar 2023
Beehive AI is using the power of generative AI to help companies transform their business through a deeper understanding of its customers. With Beehive AI, businesses can analyze customer data at scale, discover timely insights they can trust, and focus on more impactful activities by automating manual processes. Beehive AI has built an adaptive LLM with enterprise-grade security that continuously evolves to stay current with the latest technology advancements. On this foundation, Beehive AI provides a bespoke, private LLM platform, fine-tuned with your proprietary customer data. This custom LLM is fact-checked by humans and grounded in traceable truths born from your data. Leading companies are transforming how they analyze customer data, discover strategic insights, and make data-driven business decisions—and they trust Beehive AI to lead this transformation. Contact us to discover how Beehive AI can empower your company.
Series A Investor
Jan 2020
ModelOp is the leading in AI lifecycle management and governance platform, purpose-built for enterprises. We enable organizations to bring all their AI initiatives—from GenAI and ML to agents and agentic systems—to market faster, at scale, and with the confidence of end-to-end control, oversight, and value realization. ModelOp is used by the most complex and regulated institutions in the world—including major banks, insurers, regulatory bodies, healthcare organizations, and global CPG companies—because it delivers the structure, automation, and oversight necessary to operationalize AI at scale across the entire enterprise. Unlike development-oriented MLOps tools, compliance-centric GRC systems, generic workflow engines, or consulting services, ModelOp is purpose-built to orchestrate and govern the full model lifecycle—from use case intake, risk tiering, and compliance reviews, to model implementation, recurring validations, monitoring, decommissioning, and audit reporting. ModelOp supports all model types including those developed in-house and sourced from third-party vendors, integrates natively with enterprise systems, is fully REST-API compliant for extensibility, and enables a single source of truth that unites stakeholders across business, data science, legal, risk, compliance, and technology functions.
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2019
RIOS Intelligent Machines was founded with a mission to completely transform labor-intensive factories into smart factories of the future powered by robotics and AI. We’re helping enterprises automate their entire factories, warehouses or supply chain operations by deploying end-to-end robotic workcells that integrate within existing workflows, at blazing speed and at scale.
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2018
Orca Bio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of high precision allogeneic cell therapy products that are designed to safely replace patients’ diseased blood and immune system with a healthy one. Our manufacturing platform sorts donor blood with single-cell precision and a high level of purity and speed, enabling us to create proprietary, optimal therapeutic mixtures of immune and stem cells that have the potential to transform allogeneic cell therapy. Our talented team is driven by a passion for science and compassion for patients.
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Aug 2026
ArchiBoost AI is an AI-powered co-pilot for architects, engineers, developers, and general contractors. We help teams navigate complex building codes, activate institutional knowledge, and automatically review drawing sets for coordination risks — reducing RFIs, rework, and permitting delays. Built by AEC professionals, for AEC professionals.
Investor
Apr 2026
Better customer outcomes start with GTM teams seeing the same picture. But the signals behind that picture are often scattered across people, systems, and AI agents, creating the Context Gap. SciFin’s Context Convergence brings those signals together into a shared understanding, and puts it to work, giving your GTM team the confidence to execute flawlessly.
Investor
Mar 2026
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
Lead Investor
Feb 2026
Canotera is redefining how disputes are understood and resolved. Backed by leading venture investors, Canotera harnesses the power of AI and machine learning to deliver best-in-class analytics across the dispute resolution ecosystem — bringing transparency, visibility, and strategic insight to every decision.
2025
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Aug 2025
Cato delivers the only converged network and security cloud for the AI era. We bring networking, security, and access together in one cloud-native SASE platform, giving enterprises visibility, context, and control across users, applications, data, and AI agents while reducing the operational complexity of fragmented tools.
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