Steve Harrick, IVP General Partner on Enterprise Software Investing

Steve Harrick is a General Partner at IVP, a premier later-stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth technology investments. With over 25 years of experience in venture capital, he has been instrumental in funding and scaling innovative companies across enterprise infrastructure, security, communications, and consumer technology sectors. His notable investments include AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco), LegalZoom, Pure Storage, MySQL (acquired by Oracle), CrowdStrike, Sumo Logic, Personal Capital, and many other market-leading companies.Harrick holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in History from Yale University, where he managed the Yale Student Investment Group and was an NCAA Division I wrestler. He has received significant industry recognition, including multiple appearances on the Forbes Midas List (2009, 2012, and 2013) and selection for the 2021 GrowthCap Top 25 Software Investors List.Topics: How to evaluate product-market fit in enterprise software companiesDue diligence frameworks for later-stage technology investmentsCommon scaling challenges from $10M to $100M ARR and solutions#VentureCapital #ScalingStartups #SeriesB #GrowthStage #SaaS #EnterpriseInvesting