Steve Hoffman (a.k.a. Captain Hoff) is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and the Captain and Chairman of Founders Space. He has trained and educated hundreds of startup founders around the world.

Founders Space is ranked a Top 10 Incubator in Inc. Magazine and the #1 accelerator for startups coming to Silicon Valley from overseas in Forbes Magazine.

Hoffman’s angel investments include Content Analytics, wise.io, AirPair, MeetingHero, BOXC, Red Clay, Mouth, Videopixie, CrowdCurity, Boostable, Suitey, Solano Labs, Pathful, Hipcamp, Tablelist, Mavrx and more.

Hoffman is a founding member of the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group, was Chairman for the Producers Guild SF, and served on the Board of Governors for the New Media Council.

Prior to this, Hoffman was the Chief Product Officer at Playkast, an online video startup that merged with FunStar (backed by Accel Ventures & Qualcomm). Hoffman was COO of Zannel (Tap11), a venture-funded startup backed by USVP, Alloy, and Palomar Ventures that was sold to AVOS.