What does Peterson Partners invest in?
Peterson Partners invests most often at Seed and Series A (80% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Consumer, Packaging and Security.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Feb 2026; 58 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $453M, Sept 2026Private equity
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Series A: 80% of its rounds
Sole investor in 16 rounds, median $3.5M
2 exits from the portfolio
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Every round we can evidence, newest first58 appearances
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Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration13 named
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From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
Funds on its Form ADV
31 private funds, $1.8B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
Private equity 20Venture 11
And 21 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: fund news.
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Peterson Partners Peterson Kelso Coinvest, LP | - | - |
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed2 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
The investors most often in the same rounds as Peterson Partners. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Peterson Partners put money into.
One book written by people at Peterson Partners: Joel Peterson.

The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great
Joel Peterson · 2016
3.77 from 168 ratings on Goodreads
Trust is the glue that holds an organization together. It turns deflection into transparency, suspicion into empowerment, and conflict into creativity. With it, a tiny company like John Deere grew into a worldwide leader. Without it, a giant corporation like Enron toppled. In…
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Peterson Partners invests most often at Seed and Series A (80% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Consumer, Packaging and Security.
58 investments on record, 1 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 3. The most recent was in Feb 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Jump (Series B, Feb 2026), Glowbar (Growth, Jan 2023) and Blue Matador (Seed, Jul 2019).
The median round it joins is $10M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $5.0M.
Sometimes: it led 3 of its 58 investments on record (5%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (100%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 1 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Kickstart Seed Fund (13 rounds together), Pelion Venture Partners (6 rounds together) and Aaron Skonnard (3 rounds together).
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