Steve Waters

Managing Partner & Chief Strategy Officer @ Thinktiv

📍 Austin, Texas, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 9 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
9
Total investments
6
Early stage
2
Mid stage
0
Late stage
18y
Years active

Portfolio

9 investments · sorted by recency
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Investor/Advisor
Jan 2022
CasaPerks is offering renters the best rewards experience in the industry. For property management, we offer the most comprehensive platform in the industry to attract and retain their residents.
Investor/Advisor
Jan 2019
Clearday is an innovative longevity care and wellness company, with a modern, hopeful vision for making high quality care options more accessible, affordable, and empowering for older Americans and those who love them. Through our subsidiary Memory Care America (MCA), we operate a network of highly rated residential memory care communities in four U.S. states. With our Clearday Clubs™ concept, we are bringing the same standard of excellence found in our MCA residential facilities to a daytime-only community model that is dramatically less expensive than residential care options. Learn more about Clearday, Clearday Clubs at myclearday.com
Founding Investor/Advisor
Jul 2017
Scoot is the dynamic virtual meeting platform that fosters valuable relationships in the modern workplace. Connect people worldwide, boost engagement, and eliminate travel. We set out on a mission to help people initiate and build stronger, deeper, and more meaningful relationships. Our revolutionary technology is redefining online virtual meetings, gatherings, and networking by replicating what happens when a group of people (small or large) gather together in person to network, share and discuss ideas. The upside is a level of connectedness, engagement and productivity that resembles physical meetings, but with the flexibility, speed and cost savings of a virtual meeting. As a Certified B Corporation, Scoot is devoted to building technology that promotes real relationship growth. Founded by a handful of entrepreneurs who put purpose above profit, Scoot is revolutionizing virtual meeting technology, while aiming to change the world for the better. Dont just meet. Scoot. Find out more about our mission by visiting our website: https://scoot.app/company/
Investor, Advisor
2016
ALTR is the only automated data access governance and data security solution that allows users to easily control and protect sensitive data in the cloud – to minimize risks sooner and unlock value faster. Hundreds of companies and thousands of users leverage ALTR’s platform to gain unparalleled visibility into data usage, automate and control data access, and secure data with patented rate limiting and tokenization-as-a-service, all in minutes instead of months. ALTR’s partner ecosystem integrations enable scalable on-premises-to-cloud protection. To learn more, visit ALTR.com.  
Investor/Advisor
Mar 2015
OJO is an Austin-based real estate technology company guiding more people to successful homeownership. The company’s platform for buying, selling, and homeownership meets people wherever they are on their journey, offering personalized guidance every step of the way. Through a bespoke combination of people and technology, OJO cultivates a deep understanding of individual needs and preferences, matching people with the right tools and trusted providers to equip anyone to unlock the abundant benefits of home ownership. As one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., OJO Labs placed 29th on the Deloitte Tech Fast 500 and 49th on the Inc. 5000. To date, the company has raised more than $140 million to fuel its rapid growth. CEO and Founder, John Berkowitz, has been named EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Central Texas and a top CEO by the Austin Business Journal and the company’s executives have won more than a dozen industry awards in the past year. OJO Labs is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has more than 700 employees globally with a presence in Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Mateo; and a large operations center in St. Lucia.
Investor/Advisor
2014
Built by former teachers, NASA engineers and those passionate about education, the Austin-based team is obsessed with helping people with life’s certification challenges. After launching its first mobile app to provide accredited driver’s ed courses, Aceable is now expanding into other verticals for certification, including, most recently, real estate continuing education. To date, Aceable touts more than 1.5M annually and 20M in total, as it continues to expand nationwide. At Aceable, we are passionate about empowering people to learn. We’ve got big ideas and even bigger hearts. We work hard every day to make required learning and education easy, enjoyable and accessible for everyone — because that’s the way it should be. Our core values guide our interactions with our customers and one other in the workplace, and despite our constantly growing team, these values remain a constant. Aceable is located in the heart of downtown Austin on West 5th Street. There’s plenty to do and see around the office, from eating at delicious food trailers to attending an industry event nearby. At Aceable, you’ll always find a coworker eager to grab an espresso at a local coffee shop or stretch their legs with a walk around the block.
Founding Investor/Board Member
Jul 2011
Energytics is delivering the next generation of intelligence and analytics services to diverse participants in wholesale electricity markets. Across the globe, Independent Service Operators (ISOs) are in the process of increasing the transparency of network topology, pricing, congestion, and performance information across their grids, so that they can more effectively drive reliability and price efficiencies for end consumers. The key to these transparency initiatives is the automated capture of rich information from thousands of individual “nodes” on the network, as opposed to the historical approach of reporting from a small number of large commercial “zones”. This shift from “zonal” to “nodal” information creates an exponential increase in both the volume and complexity of data that must be processed by market participants and their legacy applications. In order for regional ISOs to fulfill the promise of these nodal transformations, a new generation of commercial data services and market analytics products must emerge. Energytics is the market leader in this space.
early stageUtilities
Investor
Jan 2011
Socialware is now part of the Proofpoint Nexgate team. Together, Proofpoint Nexgate and Socialware offer the most comprehensive social media compliance and security platform available.
Founding Investor/Board Member
Dec 2008
Collider provides targeting intelligence for mobile. Its technology removes major obstacles in mobile advertising by helping companies identify formerly unknown audiences, target those audiences more efficiently, and monetize inventory/campaigns more effectively. Collider's technology is a unique and powerful service for Ad Networks, Publishers, and Marketers. Visit www.videologygroup.com for more information.
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (9)
Founder (2)
Board (2)
2022
Investor/Advisor
Jan 2022
CasaPerks is offering renters the best rewards experience in the industry. For property management, we offer the most comprehensive platform in the industry to attract and retain their residents.
2019
Investor/Advisor
Jan 2019
Clearday is an innovative longevity care and wellness company, with a modern, hopeful vision for making high quality care options more accessible, affordable, and empowering for older Americans and those who love them. Through our subsidiary Memory Care America (MCA), we operate a network of highly rated residential memory care communities in four U.S. states. With our Clearday Clubs™ concept, we are bringing the same standard of excellence found in our MCA residential facilities to a daytime-only community model that is dramatically less expensive than residential care options. Learn more about Clearday, Clearday Clubs at myclearday.com
2017
Founding Investor/Advisor
Jul 2017
Scoot is the dynamic virtual meeting platform that fosters valuable relationships in the modern workplace. Connect people worldwide, boost engagement, and eliminate travel. We set out on a mission to help people initiate and build stronger, deeper, and more meaningful relationships. Our revolutionary technology is redefining online virtual meetings, gatherings, and networking by replicating what happens when a group of people (small or large) gather together in person to network, share and discuss ideas. The upside is a level of connectedness, engagement and productivity that resembles physical meetings, but with the flexibility, speed and cost savings of a virtual meeting. As a Certified B Corporation, Scoot is devoted to building technology that promotes real relationship growth. Founded by a handful of entrepreneurs who put purpose above profit, Scoot is revolutionizing virtual meeting technology, while aiming to change the world for the better. Dont just meet. Scoot. Find out more about our mission by visiting our website: https://scoot.app/company/
2016
Investor, Advisor
2016
ALTR is the only automated data access governance and data security solution that allows users to easily control and protect sensitive data in the cloud – to minimize risks sooner and unlock value faster. Hundreds of companies and thousands of users leverage ALTR’s platform to gain unparalleled visibility into data usage, automate and control data access, and secure data with patented rate limiting and tokenization-as-a-service, all in minutes instead of months. ALTR’s partner ecosystem integrations enable scalable on-premises-to-cloud protection. To learn more, visit ALTR.com.  
2015
Investor/Advisor
Mar 2015
OJO is an Austin-based real estate technology company guiding more people to successful homeownership. The company’s platform for buying, selling, and homeownership meets people wherever they are on their journey, offering personalized guidance every step of the way. Through a bespoke combination of people and technology, OJO cultivates a deep understanding of individual needs and preferences, matching people with the right tools and trusted providers to equip anyone to unlock the abundant benefits of home ownership. As one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., OJO Labs placed 29th on the Deloitte Tech Fast 500 and 49th on the Inc. 5000. To date, the company has raised more than $140 million to fuel its rapid growth. CEO and Founder, John Berkowitz, has been named EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Central Texas and a top CEO by the Austin Business Journal and the company’s executives have won more than a dozen industry awards in the past year. OJO Labs is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has more than 700 employees globally with a presence in Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Mateo; and a large operations center in St. Lucia.
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