Dennis Steele

Dennis Steele is the co-founder of Podium, a B2B customer communications software platform based in Lehi, Utah. He established the business software company in 2014 as a startup shortly after earning his degree from Brigham Young University. Under his strategic leadership, the organization has successfully scaled to approximately 1,100 employees and currently serves an expanding client base of over 100,000 local businesses. The enterprise achieved a $3 billion valuation following a $201 million Series D funding round in November 2021, bringing its total venture capital funding raised to more than $400 million. The technology firm is currently backed by prominent institutional investors including Y Combinator, Accel, and Google Ventures. Steele maintains a primary professional focus on developing B2B SaaS solutions that modernize reputation management, customer interactions, and digital payments for small and medium-sized business operations.