Steve Newcomb

Steve Newcomb is a highly accomplished technology entrepreneur, founder, and strategist, known for his significant contributions to the tech industry and his current focus on AI and real-time streaming applications. He is currently a Board Member at Red5 Pro, a company that provides real-time video streaming solutions, including those for live casino gaming and sports betting, directly connecting him to the iGaming industry [1]. His work at Red5 Pro is centered on integrating AI and real-time streaming to power the next generation of intelligent video applications [1].

Newcomb has a strong track record of founding successful companies. He is most recognized for co-founding Powerset, a pioneering natural language search engine that was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for an estimated $100 million and later became Microsoft Bing [1, 3, 6]. Before Powerset, he co-founded Loudfire, where his team developed technology enabling the first email to be sent from a mobile phone, and served as General Manager at Promptu, leading efforts in distributed voice recognition software [4, 6]. He also founded Virgance and co-founded Famous (an open-source JavaScript 3D rendering engine) and Amaze Software [4, 6].

Beyond his entrepreneurial ventures, Newcomb has held prominent roles in academia and the open-source community. He served as a Senior Fellow at the UC Berkeley School of Engineering and Haas School of Business, where he created the FounderSchool Accelerator program [1, 6]. He has also been active in the open-source space, funding the creation of the Node.js Foundation and joining the board of the jQuery project [4, 6]. More recently, in August 2022, he joined Matter Labs as Chief Product Officer, contributing to the acceleration of crypto adoption [4, 6]. He also held a position as Vice President and General Manager of Adobe Firefly, an AI flagship product [5]. In April 2026, he announced his departure from Adobe to build a new AI Film Studio called JUMP//CUT [7, 8]. His diverse experience underscores his expertise in areas such as AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and scaling high-impact startups [6].