Steve Bennet is the founder and managing director of Bodega Partners and an active participant in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem as a start-up CFO, angel investor, and professor. Over the past 25 years, he has been CFO, investor, and board member of over 100 technology start-ups, primarily in the software, Internet, and mobile sectors. Steve has a passion for both entrepreneurship and education. He has taught entrepreneurial finance since 1995 and is currently adjunct faculty at San Jose State University. He focuses on experiential education and has developed new courses at SJSU, including the Entrepreneurship Lab (ELAB), Venture Lab (VLAB), Start-up Founders and Funders, and the Silicon Valley Experience. At SJSU, he has also served on the Steering Committee for the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship, the Patent Review Board, the Dean’s Advisory Board, and the Spartan Angel Fund. Before that, he was a lecturer at UC Berkeley. Steve earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.