ucing eand  Stephan “Steve” Little

Meet Steve, the mastermind who gets you more.

Steve Little is an acclaimed serial entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and mergers and acquisitions expert well known for generating accelerated value growth and extraordinarily high acquisition value multiples for his companies and clients.

He sold his first company at age 15 for nearly $250,000 in 1973 dollars and never looked back. Steve has scaled 6 successful startups to private 9-figure acquisitions and has assured his many clients explosive value growth, highly lucrative acquisitions often at 10X-20X multiples, and impressive IRR as founder and managing director of Zero Limits Ventures. Steve has also raised more than $3B in startup and growth funding for a multitude of businesses in a broad range of industries. He led the buy-side M&A team for a major technology innovator, acquiring and successfully integrating 9 companies in less than 12 months.

At Zero Limits Ventures, Steve and his team spot unique opportunities for valuation growth & acceleration – whether triple bottom line social impact models, customer engagement strategies, or other strategies beyond revenue and earnings growth.   The unique proprietary valuation growth assessment, planning and implementation mthodology has been proven repeatedly in over 470 companies producing an average value gain of 6x to 8x. 

At Zero Limits Capital, Steve leverages the unique proprietary value growth methodologies proven to accelerate the realization of larger, more sustainable valuation acceleration to support the capital funding strategies in high performing seed and early stage companies to produce unprecedented multiples on invested capital (MOICs) for limited partner investors.

Known as the “The Activator”, Steve has personally taught, coached and mentored hundreds of business owners, corporate executives and entrepreneurs, helping his clients overcome the myriad of complex challenges to develop breakthrough strategies for peak individual and team performance, rapid scaling, and conscious leadership to generate truly legendary impact and astounding financial returns.

Steve is also a 4-time champion bodybuilder and powerlifter, an accomplished musician, and a dedicated and loving father to two amazing and talented daughters. 

As a purpose driven entrepreneur who recognizes how blessed his life is, Steve is committed to giving generously his time and money to addressing the needs of a broad range of vital global initiatives including: 

• Support Younglife Africa and the daily care needs of hundreds of children and orphans in Malawi Africa
• Support The Pachamama Alliance permanent protection of the sacred headwaters of the Amazon rain forest
• Support the BVI Art Reef Project and the creation of a new underwater coral reefs in the US and British Virgin Islands
• Assist Oceans Unite with the extensive global ocean cleanup initiatives around the word
• Support Beneath The Waves and the preservation of shark species in the US and British Virgin Islands
• Support for Virgin Unite, the non-profit foundation created to unite people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world.
• and more

Key business accomplishment and milestones:

• 45-year veteran entrepreneur
• Sold 1st business age 15 for almost $250K (in 1973 dollars)
• 6 nine figure tech exits;
• Led M&A teams for 9 additional tech acquisitions
• Raise $2B in startup and growth funding for a multitude of businesses
• Created ThePerfectBizBuilder startup bootstrap system; 200+
• Coached hundreds of entrepreneurs to impressive levels of success
• Creative Sales & Marketing Visionary
• Specialize in accelerating value growth and creating high-value exits