General Partners

Cameron Porter

Cameron Porter is a General Partner at Steel Atlas. Prior to Steel Atlas, Cameron was an investor at AlleyCorp, one of the world's leading incubators best known for founding companies like MongoDB (~$20B market cap).

Cameron was also professional athlete in Major League Soccer, winning a US championship in 2017. While at Princeton University, he studied computer science with a focus on non-deterministic algorithms and network theory. Cameron was also the leading scorer in all of college soccer and recognized as an All-American.

Talal Attieh

Talal Attieh is a General Partner at Steel Atlas. He has spent his career investing in and partnering with early-stage industrial technology companies in the US & Europe alongside the top venture capitalists in the world while building his family office from the age of 17. Talal ran the venture arm of a multi-billion dollar investment advisory firm in Los Angeles prior to founding Steel Atlas.

Post-investment, Talal specializes in establishing joint ventures and partnerships between portfolio companies and industrial customers through his legacy industrial network. Talal studied Economics at the University of Southern California (2019).

Venture Partners

Alex Laplaza

Alex Laplaza is a Venture Partner at Steel Atlas and a Director at Rainmaker, a next-generation water resilience company where he leads international partnerships, government relations, and sales.

Prior to Rainmaker, Alex was a Partner and the first-hire at Lowercarbon Capital where he raised and deployed $2 billion into clean energy, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, and carbon removal. Alex also led Lowercarbon's investments in resilience and emerging markets.

Alex was a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia and holds a Masters in International Policy from Stanford University.