Steve Semelsberger Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Tallinn, Estonia, EE

Testlio is the originator of fused software testing. Through our testing platform, DevOps integrations, expert freelance network, and robust client services team, we provide a suite of distributed and burstable managed quality solutions covering test automation, manual testing, and more. With Testlio, engineering, quality, and product teams expand testing.

I'm currently dormant with Alder Growth Partners (AGP) as I'm focused on Testlio. When active, AGP provides advisory services, boutique consulting, executive coaching, and seed capital—helping CEOs, leadership teams, and companies evolve, innovate, and grow. Areas of work span organic growth (including sales, marketing, and channels), corporate (including.

New York City, New York, US

I love Techstars and was honored to help for many years, inclusive of 2013 when Testlio came through Jason Seats's first class (noting I invested in, advised, and then ultimately joined Testlio). I hope to help again in the future. Techstars is the top accelerator in Austin (and #2 globally), nurturing companies through an intensive 12 week journey. As a.

New York, NY, US

As part of SYPartners, helped start a hybrid technology/human business to help emerging business leaders become great. We built a network of 50+ coaches/mentors. Sold and delivered learning and advisory (mentoring + coaching) services to 100+ leaders across dozens of companies. Created a system based on creativity, optimism, humanity, authentic.

New York, NY, US

SYP is a management consulting firm focused on transformation. The 200+ strategists and designers help leaders imagine and build impactful futures, create cultures of purpose and performance, and fuel new growth platforms. I loved my time at SYP as one the company's Presidents—and recommend them highly.In my three year journey, I sold and led client.

Austin, TX, US

Sustainable Food Center is involved in every step of Austin's local food system. SFC's mission is to cultivate a healthy community by strengthening the local food system and improving access to nutritious, affordable food. SFC envisions a food-secure community where all children and adults grow, share, and prepare healthy, local food.

Austin, TX, US

Invested in the Capital Factory fund and served as a mentor and advisor to technology entrepreneurs.

Served as independent director, helping founders navigate strategic options and an eventual sale to Unbound Commerce—which was then rolled into SAP.

Led spinout/asset transfer from parent company WPP. Aided early customer growth selling to start-up CEOs and HR leaders. Learned from numerous mistakes as a first-time CEO. YouEarnedIt was subsequently purchased by Vista Equity in 2018.

Santa Monica, CA, US

Joined media & technology rollup via the Pluck acquisition and stayed for 5 great years of growth. Ran business unit P&L as company grew to $350M/year in revenue and completed a $1.8B IPO. Honored to lead an awesome team of 85 people and spearhead the CoveritLive acquisition. My team's products spanned enterprise software (Pluck), media-supported content.

Austin, TX, US

While focused on growing Demand Media, I also built and taught the "Entrepreneurial Journey" course (modeled on the Acton MBA approach) during the evening. Students were budding entrepreneurs and business leaders with deep curiosity, profound values and innate moxie. Stopped teaching to focus on my family and work—but plan to return to the classroom later.

Austin, Texas, US

Dove into early social media tools pioneer as Dave's and Andrew's first business hire. Recruited an amazing team of 12 inside sales, outside sales, and indirect/channel sellers, securing 100+ customers representing 600+ sites covering 200M+ de-duped unique visitors. Established UK office operations and oversaw build out of European team. Delivered 13.

Helped customer service automation leader grow from $10M to $100M in revenue and conduct an $800M IPO. Served as industry marketing lead for telco/broadband market worth $40M+/year (AT&T, BT, Deutsche Telekom, etc.). Also ran EMEA segment marketing & field alliances (1.5 yrs while living in London), global alliances (3 years) and account management (1 yr).

ichat was one of the first Internet community software companies. Grew to thousands of customers (Yahoo!, Time Warner, iVillage, etc.) and split assets (selling ichat and launching Acuity).

Mba, High-Tech Finance & Marketing

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