Steve Mohebi

Steve Mohebi is a San Francisco–based serial entrepreneur best known as the CEO and co-founder of CANOPY, a design-driven premium coworking and flexible-workspace company. He founded CANOPY in 2015 alongside celebrated industrial designer Yves Béhar (fuseproject) and second-generation design-build developer Amir Mortazavi. The company opened its first location in San Francisco's Pacific Heights / Fillmore area and positioned itself as an upscale, boutique alternative to WeWork aimed at accomplished, established professionals. Mohebi studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and describes more than two decades of experience spanning business development, executive leadership, and entrepreneurship.

Before CANOPY, Mohebi built a career that crossed real estate and healthcare, and he earlier served as a director of sales at BetaSphere. That operating background — combining property/development instincts with go-to-market experience — informs CANOPY's core thesis that physical environment shapes how people work. As he frames it, "Where you work affects how you work," emphasizing proximity to home, focused work sessions, elevated design, and communities of professionals at similar career stages.

Under Mohebi, CANOPY grew from a single boutique location into a multi-site operator across the Bay Area (including Financial District, Jackson Square, and Menlo Park locations), reporting profitability and its highest revenue in company history in 2022, and opening a Menlo Park space in November 2022 that reached roughly 50% presale before opening day. CANOPY has raised strategic financing from investors including Structure Capital, Montage Ventures, and Graph Ventures, plus notable individual backers such as former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford, former Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff.

Separately from operating CANOPY, Mohebi is listed as an angel investor on platforms including PitchBook and Crunchbase, deploying personal capital into early-stage companies in exchange for equity.

• Invests as an individual angel, deploying personal capital at the seed / early stage.
• Portfolio to date is concentrated and selective rather than high-volume — public records show a small number of disclosed angel checks.
• Sector interests are broad, with a documented investment in life sciences / drug discovery (Inspirna) despite his operating focus being in workspace, real estate, and the future of work.
• Brings hands-on operator credibility in flexible workspace, real estate, design-led consumer/brand businesses, and hybrid-work models — areas where founders can draw on his direct experience.
• Core operating philosophy — "Where you work affects how you work" — reflects a belief in design, environment, and community as differentiators, which likely resonates with founders building thoughtfully brand- and experience-driven companies.