With more than 30 years of experience growing and advising both start-ups and established companies, Steve Schaffer is a leader in digital strategy, performance marketing, and new-business creation. As a strategic advisor and active early-stage investor in a number of high-growth Internet and technology companies, he focusses on companies with emerging digital business models that have the potential to reach over $100M in annual revenue. Steve has served on a number of boards and is NACD Directorship Certified.
Working with CEOs, founders, and start-ups through Capital Factory, Techstars, and referrals, Steve has made early stage investments in more than 25 companies, including: yourself.online, LoudCrowd, Fetch Package, CountertopSmart, UpKey, Ceresa, Osano, Rocket Dollar, Bold Metrics, Zen Business, Workify, SubjectWell, and b.well, with successful exits from Gyft and Meta Saas.
An accomplished entrepreneur, Steve founded Offers.com, a leading coupon and deal website that provides the best offers from more than 16,000 stores and brands, in February 2009. As its CEO/Chairman, he bootstrapped the company, raised Private Equity growth capital (minority interest) from Susquehanna Growth Equity, and remained CEO until he sold the company to Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) in December 2015.
Prior to launching Offers.com, Steve served as the founder and CEO of Vertive, Inc., a leader in the performance marketing industry and publisher of over 20 vertically-focused websites that connect consumers with information and discounts on online services. Previously he consulted and managed several online and consumer software companies, including eRegCard, DayMaker, Power Up Software, and Symantec.
