Ben Pederson

Tech Growth Investor at KKR

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
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Board Member
Mar 2026
Coder is an AI software development company leading the future of autonomous coding. We empower teams to build software faster, more securely, and at scale through the collaboration of AI coding agents and human developers. Our mission is to make agentic AI a safe, trusted, and integral part of every software development lifecycle.
Board Observer
Dec 2024
Aiwyn delivers the first complete platform built specifically for modern accounting firms. We make it easy for firms to consolidate systems and automate manual work across payments, practice management, client experience, and tax. With Aiwyn, firms can streamline operations, reduce complexity, and deliver faster, more consistent, and more personalized service to every client. Trusted by 175+ of the profession’s top firms, Aiwyn is how accounting leaders are building smarter, more scalable practices, without adding more tools or more overhead.
Investor
Feb 2024
SunFire is a profitable, well-capitalized software and services company providing transformative and proven technology solutions for the Medicare Insurance market. As the 65 and older demographic grows, the opportunities within this $700 billion+ marketplace continue to drive significant growth for SunFire. With an aggressive product roadmap ahead of us, we are always developing new and innovative solutions to improve and enhance our capabilities. We know Medicare is complicated! Our quoting, enrollment, and retention software is purpose-built, user-friendly, and streamlined, ensuring beneficiaries are placed in the plan best suited for their medical and financial needs. How? SunFire supports Carrier-approved Medicare plan data from 100+ plan sponsors in a cloud-based, private label-ready platform. Our system provides agents & brokers with tools and functionality to increase their sales performance, providing agent-level reporting to optimize outcomes. As a fully remote, 180+ strong team of people dedicated to improving the lives of seniors and the professionals who serve them, we are deeply passionate about giving back to our served market through our SunFire Cares Giving Fund. Reach out to learn more!
Board Member
May 2022
For security teams charged with defending hybrid and multi-cloud environments, Semperis ensures the integrity and availability of critical enterprise directory services at every step in the cyber kill chain and cuts recovery time by 90%. Purpose-built for securing hybrid Active Directory environments, Semperis patented technology protects over 50 million identities from cyberattacks, data breaches, and operational errors. The worlds leading organizations trust Semperis to spot directory vulnerabilities, intercept cyberattacks in progress, and quickly recover from ransomware and other data integrity emergencies. Semperis is headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, and operates internationally, with its research and development team distributed throughout the United States, Canada, and Israel. Semperis hosts the award-winning Hybrid Identity Protection conference and podcast series (www.hipconf.com) and built the free Active Directory security assessment tool, Purple Knight (www.purple-knight.com). The company has received the highest level of industry accolades, recently named to Deloittes Technology Fast 500™ list for the third consecutive year (2020-2022), and ranked among the top three fastest-growing cybersecurity companies in the 2021 Inc. 5000 list. Semperis is a Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance and Co-Sell partner.
Board Member
Dec 2021
Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry’s leading security infrastructure. Home to Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., Anchorage Digital also serves institutions through Anchorage Digital Singapore, which is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore; Anchorage Digital New York, which holds a BitLicense from the New York Department of Financial Services; and self-custody wallet Porto by Anchorage Digital. The company is funded by leading institutions including Andreessen Horowitz, GIC, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and Visa, with its Series D valuation over $3 billion. Founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, Anchorage Digital has offices in New York, New York; Porto, Portugal; Singapore; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. For disclosures, please visit: https://www.anchorage.com/legal
Board Member
Oct 2020
RVshare is the largest online community for RV renters and owners. Founded in 2013 in Akron, Ohio, we connect RV owners and renters, offering an additional source of income for RV owners and the option for a unique and memorable vacation for renters. Life is about moments and an RV trip should be one of them. We are on a mission to help travelers feel invigorated by the magic of an RV adventure. We inspire people to experience RV trips and make it easy to travel anywhere. Adventure is at the heart of our brand, and we believe RVs are the perfect vessels for experiencing the world. Our team works hard to empower RV owners to be entrepreneurs, and make sure renters have the trip of a lifetime. Consider us your enthusiastic guides. We love RVing and driving the customer experience is what we do; striving to reassure, solve problems, surprise and delight every chance we get. We are always looking for ways to sprinkle a little RVshare magic. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, we have a satellite office in Austin, Texas.
Board Observer
Feb 2019
OneStream is how today’s Finance teams can go beyond just reporting on the past and Take Finance Further™ by steering the business to the future. It’s the only enterprise finance platform that unifies financial and operational data, embeds AI for better decisions and productivity, and empowers the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy and execution.    With more than 1,400 customers, 250 go-to-market, implementation, and development partners and 1,300 employees, our vision is to be the operating system for modern finance, digitizing core financial functions and empowering the CFO to become a critical driver of business strategy. Check out Finance 2035: Return to Investment: a landmark study that explores how external factors and investor priorities are shaping the future of Finance in the next 10 years. Learn more about our commitment to the success of CFOs and how you can Take Finance Further here: finance2035.com
Board Observer
Jun 2016
Darktrace is a global leader in AI cybersecurity, providing the essential cybersecurity platform to secure organizations today and for an ever-changing future. Darktrace AI learns from each businesss unique data in real time, detecting threats and intervening against attacks with precision and speed. We are a diverse and inclusive team of over 2,400 employees, each playing a crucial role in protecting nearly 10,000 organizations and communities worldwide from known, unknown, and novel cyber-threats.
Investor
Jun 2016
Darktrace is a global leader in AI cybersecurity, providing the essential cybersecurity platform to secure organizations today and for an ever-changing future. Darktrace AI learns from each businesss unique data in real time, detecting threats and intervening against attacks with precision and speed. We are a diverse and inclusive team of over 2,400 employees, each playing a crucial role in protecting nearly 10,000 organizations and communities worldwide from known, unknown, and novel cyber-threats.
Board Observer
Jan 2016
Contentsquare is the all-in-one experience intelligence platform designed to be easily used by anyone that cares about digital journeys. With our flexible and scalable platform, you quickly get a deep understanding of your customers’ whole online journey.  Our AI-powered insights provide those “ah ha” moments you need to deliver the right digital experiences. You get to work faster and smarter, with the confidence to know what to do next to improve. Leading brands use Contentsquare to grow their business, deliver more customer delight, and move with greater efficiency in a constantly changing world. Our insights optimize the experience on over 1.3 million websites worldwide.
Investor
Jan 2016
GetYourGuide is a leading global online marketplace to discover and book experiences worth traveling for. Travelers can use GetYourGuide to find things to do in more than 18,000 cities, including tours from local experts, exclusive access to must-see attractions, as well as immersive bucket-list experiences. More than 50,000 supply partners leverage GetYourGuide’s easy-to-use platform to grow their businesses, offering 200,000 experiences to travelers around the world. If you share our passion for travel and tech, check out our open positions at careers.getyourguide.com or take a look behind the scenes of GetYourGuide on our blog: inside.getyourguide.com. Important notice: Protect yourself from recruitment scams. To ensure your safety during the application process, please be aware of potential scammers impersonating GetYourGuide recruiters. Remember, GetYourGuide will never request your payment or sensitive personal information during recruitment. All official job opportunities are exclusively posted on our Careers page. If you suspect fraudulent activity, report it to jobs@getyourguide.com.
Investor
2016
Tenstreet represents a unique combination of capabilities and resources dedicated to finding new answers to the trucking industry’s toughest recruiting and driver management problems. Tenstreet combines state-of-the-art technology with innovative and strategic thinking that gives us great leverage in four distinct service areas - Recruiting, Safety, Onboarding, and Marketing. Over 15,300,000 IntelliApps have been received by recruiting teams at our over 4,200 client carriers. With a leadership team experienced in running technology companies and a background deep in trucking, we provide simple solutions to the problems that carriers face every day.
Investor
2015
When you navigate the healthcare market, you run into big questions, fast. Where are the people who need your product? Where can you find the experts to inform your product development? And more importantly, how do you turn billions of data points into meaningful answers? At Definitive Healthcare, our passion is to transform data, analytics and expertise into healthcare commercial intelligence. We help clients uncover the right markets, opportunities and people, so they can shape tomorrow’s healthcare industry. Our SaaS platform creates the path to commercial success in the healthcare market, so you can identify where to go next. We offer solutions for customers who work in Biopharma, Medical Devices, Software & IT, Professional Services, Healthcare Providers or any industry looking to sell products into the healthcare market. Our solutions help customers who are looking for intelligence to help with: • Go-to-market planning and execution • Product development • Market intelligence • Corporate development • Sales intelligence & optimization In 2019, the Boston Business Journal named Definitive Healthcare the #1 Best Large Company to Work for in Massachusetts. BBJ also named Definitive Healthcare a 2021 Middle Market Leader in Massachusetts. Additionally, we’ve placed on the Boston Globe’s list of Top Places to Work in Massachusetts for the past five years in a row. To learn more about our company or to request a free trial of our solutions, visit us at www.definitivehc.com
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2026
Board Member
Mar 2026
Coder is an AI software development company leading the future of autonomous coding. We empower teams to build software faster, more securely, and at scale through the collaboration of AI coding agents and human developers. Our mission is to make agentic AI a safe, trusted, and integral part of every software development lifecycle.
2025
Board Member
Dec 2025
Our AI-powered identity platform manages and governs human and non-human access to all of an organizations applications, data, and business processes. Customers trust us to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, we help organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI today. We are recognized as a leader in identity security, with solutions that protect and empower the world’s leading brands, Fortune 500 companies, and government institutions.
Board Member
Feb 2025
The only digital tool your techs need on a jobsite, XOi is built for HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Construction, Kitchen Equipment, and more. Connecting people from all parts of the field service ecosystem with the equipment they service, and centered around the data your techs collect on a job site, XOi transforms your business from the ground up through streamlined workflows, instant access to knowledge, robust insights, and game-changing customer transparency.
2024
Board Observer
Dec 2024
Aiwyn delivers the first complete platform built specifically for modern accounting firms. We make it easy for firms to consolidate systems and automate manual work across payments, practice management, client experience, and tax. With Aiwyn, firms can streamline operations, reduce complexity, and deliver faster, more consistent, and more personalized service to every client. Trusted by 175+ of the profession’s top firms, Aiwyn is how accounting leaders are building smarter, more scalable practices, without adding more tools or more overhead.
Investor
Sep 2024
Nasuni is a unified file data platform for enterprises facing an explosion of unstructured data, providing business resiliency, driving IT efficiency, and reducing infrastructure costs by up to 65%. Nasuni’s hybrid cloud solution delivers secure data access at the edge and supports enterprise expectations for delivering data analytics and insights.
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