Danielle
Steer

Strategy and operations

I build operating
systems.

Capital allocation at Tundra Ventures. A medical device ecosystem at Avio. The programs and the teams who run them. Most people are either strategic thinkers or operational executors. I'm the rare professional who excels at both.

Danielle Steer
Portrait by Bethany Birnie

Venture  |  AI enablement  |  Operations  |  Program design

Danielle Steer Chief of Staff at Avio MedTech. Co-founding GP at Tundra Ventures. Founder of Committed.

Now

What I am working on


Avio MedTech

Chief of Staff to Morgan Evans. Bringing AI enablement to a fast-growing consulting practice while launching new medical device ventures.

Tundra Ventures

Managing Director and co-founding GP. Pre-seed and early-stage investing out of Minnesota across wealth, health, and resilience.

Committed

A membership community for women moving from angel investing into fund investing as Limited Partners.

By the numbers

Fifteen years of building


2,000+
Companies evaluated at Tundra
300%
Increase in evaluation throughput
77
Companies accelerated at Lunar
$235M
Economic impact generated
600+
Jobs created
98
Net promoter score

Portfolio of experience

Where I have done this


Avio MedTech
2026 to present

Chief of Staff to Morgan Evans, a serial entrepreneur and medical device investor. She is building an ecosystem of companies designed to get better devices to patients faster than the standard playbook allows.

The work has two halves:

  • AI enablement. Putting AI into the daily operations of a fast-growing consulting practice, so the team can serve more startups improving the lives of patients while keeping costs reasonable.
  • Company formation. Standing up several new ventures a year, designed AI-native from the first day rather than retrofitted once the process already hardened.
Tundra Ventures
2021 to present

Early-stage funds tend to operate like artisan shops when they need to function like scalable platforms. I built the systems that changed that.

  • Over 2,000 companies evaluated, 13 funded
  • Evaluation throughput up 300% with overhead cut by half
  • Deal flow, diligence, and LP reporting frameworks still in use
Lunar Startups
2018 to 2023

Co-founded Minnesota's first inclusive accelerator, built for founders the traditional startup ecosystem was never designed to serve.

  • 77 companies accelerated over five years
  • $235M in economic impact and more than 600 jobs created
  • Net promoter score of 98

Building

Committed


Women already allocate capital with skill. What has been missing is the path from writing angel checks into fund investing, where the math works better and the time cost is lower. Committed is a membership community for accredited women making that move, with the frameworks to evaluate funds independently and the peers to do it alongside.

Visit Committed

Advising

How I work with organizations


I work with impact investors and funds, ecosystem builders, foundations, and family offices. Three shapes, depending on what the work needs.

Customer Listening & Program Design

A collaborative listening process with founders and stakeholders, producing a program or fund design that people actually want to use and that fits your strategy and capacity.

Strategy-to-Operations Sprint

A focused sprint that turns strategic ambition into a 90-day and 12-month roadmap of concrete moves your team can actually make.

Embedded Operator & Facilitator

Short-term embedded support through design and implementation, structured so your team owns the work when I step out.

Recent engagement

Proofing Station

Impact investing consultant on a fixed-term engagement through Food Works Group, 2025 to 2026. Designed the program and fund strategy for a Midwest catalytic capital initiative in food and agriculture.

Engagements are limited.

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Contact

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Tundra Ventures
Managing Director and co-founding GP