Steve Taub

Venture Partner

Steve Taub is Venture Partner, Deeptech & Innovation at AWE Funds, where he leads technical evaluation for every deeptech investment - assessing technology defensibility, scale-up potential, and commercialization readiness for companies building in India and for the world. He brings over three decades of investment and operational experience across deeptech, defense, climate, energy, advanced manufacturing, and frontier technology, with a track record spanning 32+ investments and top-quartile returns at In-Q-Tel.

Steve's investment career spans some of the most consequential institutions in technology venture. As a founding investor at GE Ventures, he focused on early- to growth-stage companies in energy, advanced manufacturing, transportation, and aerospace — backing Desktop Metal, Carbon3D, Virgin Hyperloop One, and Rethink Robotics among others. At In-Q-Tel, the independent nonprofit VC firm serving the US intelligence community, he was responsible for 21 investments including Skydio, ABL Space Systems, and PolySpectra. He subsequently served as Managing Director of Investments at JetBlue Technology Ventures, leading investments in Shift5 and Rubicon Carbon. Earlier in his career, he spent six years at GE Energy Financial Services supporting over $7 billion in energy investments across 76 project transactions and 50 venture investments spanning wind, solar, smart grid, and clean energy manufacturing. He currently also serves as a Senior Commercialisation Advisor to DARPA, the research and development arm of the US Department of Defense, advising on technology commercialisation and venture engagement.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University and dual Master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — an S.M. in Mechanical Engineering and an S.M. in Technology and Policy. Earlier in his career he held engineering roles at Grumman Aircraft (now Northrop Grumman) and served as a project manager at the US Department of Energy, where he co-authored multiple reports to Congress on the environmental legacy of US nuclear weapons production programs.