Steven Douglas

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Angel Investor at Independent · climate tech, venture capital

Independent
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
12+ years experience
Harvard Business School
English
Investing
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Overview

13 years around startups; now investing in climate. Backed 59 founders at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 4 boards. Before that: Booking Holdings and Reddit. Into vintage synthesizers.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in climate
  • Second opinions on climate tech decisions
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  • Generic networking requests
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Courses and coaching offers

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Skills
hardwareventure capitalclimate techenergy
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Investing in seed climate founders across the Nordics

Cheque size
$25k-$100k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Climate, climate
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Typically lead or co-lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Independent · 10 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Sit on 5 boards.
    • Backed 19 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
  2. Software Engineer
    Sep 2022 - Dec 2025
    Booking Holdings · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 845ms to 137ms.
    • Shipped 14 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Nov 2018 - May 2022
    Reddit · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Shipped 28 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
    Qualcomm · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Moved 67% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 587ms to 66ms.
  5. Senior ML Engineer
    Sep 2014 - Aug 2017
    Lyft · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Replaced 116 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Built the pricing models now used in 10 product decisions a quarter.

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Education

  1. Harvard Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. Rhode Island School of Design
    BFA, Engineering
    2009 - 2013

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