Peterson Ventures

Allbirds, Inc. is a global lifestyle brand that specializes in creating comfortable and sustainable footwear and apparel using naturally derived materials. The company focuses on innovation in product design to promote environmentally friendly practices in the fashion industry.

Ethos Life offers affordable online life insurance with instant quotes, providing various types of life insurance policies without the need for medical exams. They also offer estate planning services, including free wills and trusts.

Nomi Health is a healthcare company focused on rebuilding the healthcare system to be simple, direct, and accessible for everyone. They offer solutions that include analytics, financial services, and direct contracts powered by modern infrastructure.

Lucidchart is a diagramming application that leverages AI and data to create intelligent diagrams, enabling users to visualize systems and processes effectively.

HireVue’s AI-powered platform pinpoints and validates the skills that drive job success, simplifying hiring and reducing bias through virtual job tryouts and assessments.

Rebuy enables people to buy and sell inexpensive, high-quality second-hand electronics and media, promoting a circular economy.

SchoolAI is an innovative platform that empowers educators with AI tools designed to enhance the learning experience for students. It provides personalized AI tutoring, lesson planning assistance, and real-time insights into student progress, all while ensuring safety and compliance with educational standards.

Casca is an AI-native lending platform that automates the business loan origination process, enabling financial institutions to process loans up to 10 times faster than competitors. Founded by banking IT experts and AI researchers from Stanford University, Casca aims to redefine business lending through innovative technology and responsible AI.

Two Boxes is a reverse logistics platform designed to assist e-commerce brands and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) in efficiently processing returns. By integrating with major platforms like Shopify, it streamlines the returns process, enhancing customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

AI powered commercial real estate operations for asset managers, providing end-to-end retrofitting, compliance, and reporting across global portfolios.

Seed-stage, consumer-product investor focused on tangible goods rather than software, targeting sustainable $250M–$750M outcome brands and offering hands-on People/Product/Pipeline support emphasizing supply chain, margins, design and marketing. Born from Andrew Mitchell's successful angel investments in Warby Parker, Birchbox, Harry's, and Peloton.

Pre-seed investor that co-founds, makes unusually large pre-incorporation checks, and leverages partners' private-equity and NYC development ties to connect founders with hedge fund CEOs and senior White House officials. Max Ventures is a venture capital fund that co-founds companies from within the fund (having built eight venture-backed startups) and makes unusually large first checks at the pre-seed stage, often committing capital before companies are even incorporated. The fund's partners bring backgrounds from private equity and New York City's economic development office, enabling them to provide heavy customer introduction support including direct access to hedge fund CEOs and senior White House officials.

Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless with no finance or tech background, Backstage Capital requires at least one founder to be a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ. The fund treats capital allocation as activism and argues that 'underestimated' founders are systematically mispriced assets that create alpha rather than requiring concessionary returns.

Led by a solo GP, an early institutional investor that uses a learn-first networking approach—deep founder/category diligence—with bi-regional Columbus–Boulder presence focused on consumer, fashion, health/wellness, and brand+tech SaaS/IoT.

Inclusive investors offering hands-on support and access to a powerful network.