Steve Murchie - More than 25 years of experience in the software industry

Steve Murchie has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry, starting as a programmer/analyst and progressing through a variety of roles in sales, marketing, and general management.

The companies Steve has worked with span the spectrum of the industry, including startups, turnarounds, a VC-backed roll-up, and an eight-year stint at Microsoft where he helped grow the SQL Server business from $300M to over $1B in under five years. In 2004, he left Microsoft to return to the start-up world as CEO of a fledgling company and got his first taste of the angel investing process. While that initial exposure didn’t earn any financing for his business, he did gain a lot of insight from the Keiretsu Forum screening process, which was inevitably even more valuable. Steve subsequently joined the Keiretsu Forum in Seattle as an investor member, contributing time to deal screenings, participating in due diligence, making a few investments, and thoroughly enjoying himself with the group. When the Murchies decided to relocate back to Colorado after nine years away, Steve explored the possibility of bringing a chapter of the group to Denver, and the result is a very successful new chapter that was launched in March of 2007. Steve has since rekindled a passion for alternative energy and conservation technologies, and is currently working with several partners to launch a new cleantech venture capital fund.

Steve holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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