Andrew Peterson

Investor, CEO, Founder, Board Member, Advisor, Author, Dad

📍 Los Angeles, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 42 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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2023
SpecterOps provides adversary-focused cybersecurity solutions to help organizations understand how threat actors maneuver against them, so they can successfully defend against advanced attacks. SpecterOps replicates adversary tradecraft, hardens systems against the attack cycle, and helps detect current advanced threat actor activity. Service offerings include internal program development, training courses, independent assessment options, and assessment operations support. With knowledge of the adversary, organizations are empowered to successfully prevent against devastating breaches. Contact us at info@specterops.io.
Investor and Advisor
2023
Impart is the first Application Detection and Response Engineering Platform, empowering security teams to design, test, and deploy AI-assisted security rules tailored to their applications — safely and confidently in production.
Investor
2023
Sublime is the new standard for email security. Not just another black box, our AI-powered detection engine detects and prevents email attacks, so security teams can spend less time on email-originated incidents.
Investor
2023
Introducing Kindo, the way to safely adopt and manage AI across your entire workforce. Pay only once for AI access from anywhere, in one interface. Supporting commercial, open source, and private AI models as well as 200+ SaaS integrations, Kindo elevates workforce productivity while keeping everything centralized, secure, and compliant.
Investor
2023
Dreadnode is at the forefront of offensive AI research and development, building AI systems that demonstrate parity with, or exceed, human capabilities in the offensive security domain. Founded in 2023 by Will Pearce and Nick Landers, Dreadnode is developing the most advanced suite of offensive AI solutions—Strikes, Spyglass, and Crucible—for the best offensive teams, researchers, and model developers in the world. In collaboration with its government, enterprise, and AI labs partners, and support from Decibel, In-Q-Tel (IQT), NFC, Sands Capital, Indie VC, Aviso Ventures, Jon Oringer, and others, Dreadnode aims to create a world where we can trust AI systems to perform offensive tasks autonomously. Learn more at www.dreadnode.io or follow us @dreadnode.
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2023
Quandri transforms the policy renewal process for personal lines insurance agencies and brokerages by automating time-consuming and repetitive tasks, identifying actional policy insights and enabling insurance companies to achieve profitability and scale. Quandri’s Renewal Intelligence Platform uses AI-enabled agents (a.k.a. bots) to accomplish manual, repetitive tasks within your Epic AMS. This enables your human agents to focus their efforts on more valuable work, such as calling clients and selling additional policies. Trusted by 5/10 of Canada’s largest brokerages, Quandri’s Renewal Intelligence Platform is now available in the US.
Investor
2022
OpsHelm provides a Software-as-a-Service solution to help businesses ensure that all of their cloud environments have their security bases covered. We provide peace-of-mind for organizations that don't have in-house security expertise or that have secondary environments (sales demos, data science, M&A, etc.) that in-house security teams aren't staffed to handle. Thanks to our context-aware data analysis platform and automated responses designed by our team of security experts, OpsHelm automatically remediates security issues without extensive initial configuration or ongoing maintenance. This helps you make the most of your existing engineers and frees your team up to focus on more important matters.
Investor
2022
Sweater is the first VC fund for everyday investors. Until now, venture capital investing has been an asset class exclusively available to a select few. Sweater is transforming that. Our mobile-first experience allows everyone direct access to the worlds most exclusive asset class—Venture Capital. Sweater’s mission is to empower everyone to become investors in the next generation of venture-backed startups. https://www.sweaterventures.com/socialmedia
Investor
2022
Bobsled is a cross-cloud data sharing platform that makes it painless to share data between any data lake or warehouse. We enable product and data teams to share data products directly into a customer or partner’s preferred analytical environment without ever leaving their own.
Investor
2022
Prisma® AIRS is the world’s most comprehensive AI security platform. Its natively integrated and uses best-in-class security to secure the entire AI attack lifecycle for every AI app, agent, models and dataset your business uses or builds. It empowers organizations to deploy AI bravely knowing that whatever they build is secure.
Investor and Advisor
2022
Nucleus is a platform that automates vulnerability analysis, prioritization, and response, to help your organization make better risk decisions and mitigate vulnerabilities much faster than they can today.
Investor
2022
VulnCheck helps organizations outpace adversaries with vulnerability intelligence that predicts avenues of attack with speed and accuracy. The VulnCheck team comprises a whos who of cybersecurity research, with decades of experience uncovering 100s of 0days and 10+ patents. VulnChecks vulnerability and exploit intelligence equips defenders with the insights they need to focus resources on the vulnerabilities that matter most. Thats why VulnCheck has been selected to power government agencies, large enterprises, and the industrys most innovative cybersecurity solutions, covering billions of assets around the world. See what youre missing at www.vulncheck.com.
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2022
The End-to-End GitOps Platform for Kubernetes, from the creators of Argo . Start your free trial at akuity.io/akuity-platform Akuity is revolutionizing the way enterprises manage and scale Kubernetes environments with GitOps. As the creators and maintainers of Argo, the leading open-source GitOps project, Akuity delivers enterprise-grade tools that simplify Kubernetes operations, enhance developer experiences, and future-proof infrastructure. The platform enables organizations to embrace cloud-native strategies, improve software delivery, and achieve greater reliability and security at scale. Akuity stands at the forefront of GitOps and Kubernetes innovation, driving efficiency and empowering teams worldwide. Learn more: www.akuity.io
Investor and Advisor
2022
Security testing made awesome for Developers
Investor
2022
The world’s best Sales & IT teams use 1up to answer sales questions, RFPs, and security questionnaires 10x faster. Based in New York City, 1up has raised more than $8 million and is trusted by industry leaders such as WalkMe, Gladly, Deliveroo, and many more across the globe to unlock a faster sales experience. Start your free trial at 1up.ai ⚡👾⚡
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Investing in Enterprise Software. Specializing in early stage Cybersecurity, DevOps, Data, AI, and Vertical Specific Applications. We know it, because weve done it.
Investor
2023
SpecterOps provides adversary-focused cybersecurity solutions to help organizations understand how threat actors maneuver against them, so they can successfully defend against advanced attacks. SpecterOps replicates adversary tradecraft, hardens systems against the attack cycle, and helps detect current advanced threat actor activity. Service offerings include internal program development, training courses, independent assessment options, and assessment operations support. With knowledge of the adversary, organizations are empowered to successfully prevent against devastating breaches. Contact us at info@specterops.io.
Investor and Advisor
2023
Impart is the first Application Detection and Response Engineering Platform, empowering security teams to design, test, and deploy AI-assisted security rules tailored to their applications — safely and confidently in production.
Investor
2023
Sublime is the new standard for email security. Not just another black box, our AI-powered detection engine detects and prevents email attacks, so security teams can spend less time on email-originated incidents.
Investor
2023
Introducing Kindo, the way to safely adopt and manage AI across your entire workforce. Pay only once for AI access from anywhere, in one interface. Supporting commercial, open source, and private AI models as well as 200+ SaaS integrations, Kindo elevates workforce productivity while keeping everything centralized, secure, and compliant.
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