Steel Perlot is a venture builder and investment firm that focuses on scalable AI- and analytics-driven platform businesses, founded by Michelle Ritter as Founder and CEO, with Eric Schmidt serving as Chairman. Steel Perlot's Twitter Score is 9.4 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #107,800 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Steel Perlot was founded in 2021 and operates across applied AI, financial technology, and other emerging sectors. The firm describes its approach as both building and backing platform technologies through an analytics-driven, multi-decade investment framework. Its published investment thesis also identifies distributed financial systems as a prospective long-term technology area.
Steel Perlot has attracted notable capital commitments: per Forbes, Eric Schmidt committed at least $100 million to the firm, and the firm is backed by Hillspire LLC, which Forbes reported was asked to cover payroll and credit-card obligations in January 2023. Steel Perlot has published 33 posts on the platform and has 1,287 followers as of July 2026.
Steel Perlot's portfolio includes Syndicate, Socket, Tristero, Keeta and Fanable.
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The accounts that follow Steel Perlot include 41 founders, 20 angel investors and 17 influencers. Among them are Matthew Graham, Zach Rynes, Antonio Garca Martnez agm.eth, Andrew Steinwold, Riva and Sunny Aggarwal. Steel Perlot has been mentioned by 6 accounts, with 7 total mentions.