Steve Waterhouse

Partner

Steve joined Pantera in 2013. He is an entrepreneur whose experience spans the lifecycle of venture-backed startups. In 2000, he joined Infrasearch, a peer-to-peer search engine acquired by Sun Microsystems. He held several positions at Sun, including creating the Honeycomb storage product line. He co-founded RPX Corporation and helped grow it through IPO. He then co-founded Koru Ventures, an investment firm providing loans using IP as collateral. At Fortress Investment Group, he served as CTO of the IP finance group. Steve is on the board of ChangeTip, a social media bitcoin tipping platform. He holds Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. degrees in Engineering from Cambridge University, where he received the Isaac Newton prize for Ph.D. research.��