Peter Rip
Peter Rip is a venture capitalist with Leapfrog Ventures in San Francisco. He focuses exclusively on early stage technology companies.
Before becoming a venture investor, Peter co-founded Silicon Compiler Systems, an IC design automation company acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1991. He began venture investing in 1992, backing several early stage companies acquired by AOL, Microsoft, HNC Software, and Infoseek. Peter earlier was the Managing Director of Knight Ridder Ventures, the venture capital subsidiary of Knight Ridder, Inc.
Peter has a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Brandeis University. Peter's blog can be accessed here: http://earlystagevc.typepad.com
Recent Posts
Venture Capital 2.0 – the evidence accumulates
There is a lot of hand-wringing this week about the meaning of the Sevin Rosen decision not to raise a new fund.
The over-simplified conclusion is early stage venture capital is no longer economically interesting • a.k.a “broken.” The more accurate self-assessment is that Sevin Rosen concluded they did not have a strategy to navigate the new dynamics of the market, not that the market itself was poisoned.
Steve Dow, General Partner of Sevin Rosen… Continue Reading