| Birthplace | Los Angeles, CA |
| Santa Clara University, BS | 1988 |
| Math |
Steve O’Hara is a Silicon Valley based entrepreneur. Steve founded three Bay Area based, venture-backed companies and has been an Advisor and Board member to several others.
Steve is currently a Founder of Nebula, an enterprise systems start-up for “big data” cloud computing. The company is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andy Bechtolsheim, Ram Shriram, David Cheriton and Boston-based Highland Capital Partners.
In 1999, Steve founded metro optical carrier and industry leader OnFiber Communications. Steve founded OnFiber with seed funding from Andy Bechtolsheim, and later incubated the start-up at Kleiner Perkins under Vinod Khosla. OnFiber raised its A, B and C rounds from from Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Bear Stearns, Bechtel and GE Capital. OnFiber was acquired by Qwest (NYSE: Q) in 2006 for $170M.
In 1994, Steve founded CoreLogic with backing from Intel Capital, Mitsubishi and angel investors. CoreLogic was a virtual chip pioneer that designed synthesizable and behavioral Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) processors and cores for semiconductor and networking companies. In 1997, CoreLogic merged with another venture-backed start-up, Rendition, and in 1998 Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) acquired the combined company for $90MM.
Steve started his career at Nortel (NYSE: NRTLQ) in 1988 and worked at the company through 1994. He held roles in applications engineering, sales and business development.
Steve served on the Advisory Board at Euphonics (acquired by 3Com in 1997), was the founding Advisor to NetScreen (IPO in 2001, acquired by Juniper Networks in 2004) and an Advisor to Infinera (IPO in 2007). In 2005 Steve was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s annual Entrepreneur of the Year.
Steve currently serves as a Member of the Board at Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering.
Steve graduated from Santa Clara University in 1988 with a BS degree in Math.
