We're entrepreneurial and have the scars to prove it.

STN started in January 2007 with an idea of its own: be the easiest angel investor to work with east of California.

After seeing nearly 200 business plans, and funding only two of them, we came to a realization: we enjoy building and operating businesses far more than we enjoy sitting on the sidelines and funding them. So, like any good business, STN Labs adapted and changed its business model.

Today, we still invest in businesses, but our methodology is vastly different from the typical financier.

There is no better word than obsession to describe our interest in technology. We built retail computers before the internet was commercialized, were system operators of bulletin board systems (RoboBoard/FX, if you’re curious) have started ISPs, and have developed CAD software and designed consumer software with an install base of millions of users.

Written patents? Check.

Sued one of the largest corporations in the world for trademark infringement? Check.

Passed on ideas from others which turned into billion dollar businesses? Yep.

Had our own businesses fail? Multiple times.

Mortgaged houses, juggled 15 credit cards at once, and hit family up for money? Embarrassing, but true.