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Johnathan Douglas Steuart (born May 10, 1961) is an American entrepreneur and venture investor. His career spans 30 years as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and executive in public and private healthcare, technology, real estate sectors and more recently in education and non-profit fundraising.

Steuart has served on UC Berkeley Advisory Board for Lester Center of Entrepreneurship Haas Business School and CET (College of Engineering).

Background and early life
John was born and raised in Maryland and attended St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. John later attended the University of California, Berkeley and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and History in 1985. He then earned a Master of Science in Taxation from Golden Gate University and became a Certified Public Accountant in 1988.

John is fluent in German.

Financial career
In 1995, Steuart left venture firm Alafi Capital to become co-founder at an internet payments and loyalty marketing company called CyberGold. The founding team built the company from three co-founders to 150 employees and took it public. After the IPO came a $500 million merger with a competitor, Mypoints.

After MyPoints merged with a competitor United Airlines New Ventures (UAL), Steuart entered back into the venture world and in 2004 co-founded Claremont Creek Ventures in Oakland, CA. . While at Claremont, some of John’s portfolio companies include Natera (NTRA), SmartZip and PropertBridge (acquired by MoneyGram).

Steuart transitioned to Prolog Ventures in 2014 with offices in St. Louis and Berkley.

In August 2015 Roche acquired John’s portfolio company GeneWeave in a $425 million transaction.

Currently, Steuart focuses his time on his work with Calvert Street Capital Partners as an Advisor to tech-enabled business services. He also sits on the boards of Natera (NTRA), SmartZip5, Grytt Fundraising, and School Duels.

Natera (NTRA)
In 2007, John led the Series A investment in Natera together with Sequoia Capital. Natera is a worldwide genetic testing and diagnostics company that develops and commercializes non-invasive methods for analyzing DNA. The molecular diagnostic company successfully completed an IPO in July 2015.

Savvy Properties
Savvy Properties was John’s first business out of college. He and his partners Michael Kraszulyak co-founded the firm in 1988. Savvy Properties, L.P. is an investment property holding company.

Assurex
In August 2016, Myraid Genetics purchased John’s portfolio company Assurex in a $410 million deal.

Gryyt
John currently sits as Executive of the Board for Gryyt (acquired Rally4), a marketing tech company that enables an entire operating suite of technologies to allow non-profit and mission-based organizations to focus on their mission rather than the daily business running an organization.

SchoolDuels
Steuart is a co-founder and chairman of the board for School Duels, a gaming platform that allows players to simultaneously raises funds for local high schools.

Politics
Real Estate In 2018, John and his partner Michael Kraszulyak spoke with Angela Hart from the Sacramento Bee to educate the public on the economic impact of controlling rent rates in the area. He and Michael shared their perspective on why it was important for California constituents to vote ‘No’ on Proposition 10 in statewide elections.

Patents Steuart’s career has been focused on investments in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biomedical verticals. He holds one patent for a method of rendering identifiable a living tissue implant using an electrical transponder marker. This patent was issued by the USPTO on October 7, 1997.

His second patent was issued in November of 1999 for a living tissue implant with an electrical transponder marker.