About Us
OUR INVESTMENT STRATEGY IS SIMPLE: INVEST EARLY IN ENTREPRENEURS WITH A VISION THAT CAN BRING ABOUT CHANGE AND THEN HELP THEM WIN.
Steelhead Ventures, LLC , is owned and managed by George Arabian and Gary Arabian. With deep experience in scaling revenues for fast-growth technology companies and in commercial real estate brokerage, Steelhead offers distinctive value to our founders and the companies we invest in. We specialize in helping our founders and their teams scale revenues at any stage in a company's life cycle and provide access to our extensive network.
George Arabian
George is currently a Vice President of Sales for Absolutdata, Technology Inc., an Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Advanced Analytics solutions company focused on the Enterprise Market. George brings decades of experience as a sales leader in the technology sector bringing innovative technologies to market, having been a key contributor in three IPOs and two profitable exits over his career.
George’s core competency is driving revenue growth that transitions early stage Startups to their Explosive Growth Stage. He has developed over the years an approach to growth which removes the barrier between sales and marketing to efficiently execute a “growth function,” which scales revenues. George leads Steelhead Ventures Growth Services (SHGS) and under his leadership SHGS offers our clients an agile sales model that delivers predictable revenues that he has spent a career developing.
George like his brother Gary being a San Francisco Native leverage their deep roots in the Bay Area to open doors for our portfolio companies and clients with George also providing introductions and access to his extensive network of F500 Enterprise relationships.
George currently servers on the Advisory of Jack London Park Partners, the first privately funded 501C, managing a California State Owned Park, has served as the committee Chairman of Young Life Marin as well as on the Father’s Club Board, at St Ignatius High School in San Francisco.
Gary Arabian
Gary is currently an Executive Vice President of CBRE in San Francisco and prior to joining CBRE, he was a Founder and Principal at The CAC Group-where he lead the Tenant Representation practice group. Founded in 1990, The CAC Group grew into one of the most dominant real estate brokerage and property management firms in San Francisco, with CBRE acquiring the company in 2013.
Gary, like his brother George, are native San Franciscans and Gary has spent his entire career in the San Francisco/Bay Area business community as one of the leading Tenant Representation brokers-having completed a wide range of successful assignments on behalf on top-tier companies in technology, law, financial services, investment banking/private equity and consumer products. Gary’s representation experience has resulted in some of the most significant lease and sale transactions in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Gary has served on numerous non-profit boards including California Trout, Miracle Messages, New Door Ventures, is part of the Leadership Team of NCS-SF, and is currently a key advisor to be/do labs-a forum/accelerator of Leadership Awareness and Development.
Gary brings his deep network and relationships in the San Francisco/Bay Area business community to support and assist in developing Steelhead Ventures’ portfolio of companies.