Peter Thorne

Private Investor and educational change advocate

📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 49 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Jun 2019
At Devoted Health, we’re on a mission to dramatically improve the health and well-being of older Americans by caring for every person like family. Founded in 2017, weve grown fast and now serve members all across the United States. Weve gathered smart, diverse, and big-hearted people to create a new kind of all-in-one healthcare company — one that combines compassion, health insurance, clinical care, service, and technology -- to deliver a complete and integrated healthcare solution that delivers high quality care that everyone would want for someone they love. Were only just getting started! So join us on this mission: https://devoted.com/careers/
Investor
2014
CognitiveScale pioneered the concept of ‘Trusted AI”, paving the way for responsible Enterprise AI development worldwide. Backed by 164 AI patents, the Cortex platform empowers data scientists and citizen developers to build, understand and analyze intelligent, transparent & trusted AI systems using any data, on any cloud. By simplifying the development, deployment and management of AI systems, CognitiveScale is revolutionizing how organizations across industries–healthcare, financial services, insurance and digital commerce– engage with customers, optimize services and deliver on bottom line goals—all while protecting them from business risk. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, CognitiveScale is recognized by the World Economic Forum for positively impacting business and society through AI with active investment from Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, IBM Watson, M12 (Microsoft Ventures), and USAA.
Investor and Adviser
2008
Crimson Hexagon helps global brands better understand their consumers. With instant access to the world’s largest volume of unstructured text and images across social, online public, and enterprise-held data sources, Crimson Hexagon’s AI-powered consumer insights platform allows clients to analyze audiences, track brand perception and campaign performance, and even detect competitive and market trends. Our clients include Anheuser-Busch InBev, Adidas, General Mills, Paramount Pictures, and Twitter. Find us on Twitter @CrimsonHexagon.
Investor
2007
SOASTA, now part of Akamai, is the leader in performance measurement and analytics. The SOASTA platform enables digital business owners to gain unprecedented and continuous performance insights into their real user experience on mobile and Web devices – in real time, and at scale. With more than 10 million tests performed and more than 100 billion user experiences measured, SOASTA is the digital performance expert trusted by industry-leading companies including Experian, Hallmark, Intuit, and Microsoft. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information please visit www.soasta.com
Investor and Adviser
2006
Adviser and Investor
2004
Help your international prospects, customers and partners find you, understand your company, and do business with you by giving them an online local user experience in their language(s) and market(s). Whether you sell directly or via distributors, a local website that is easy to engage and do business with, built to match your business strategy, is essential for your international business success. How will the Online Global Program help you? - Reach new markets - Be found and understood in target markets - Generate leads - Grow your international sales - B2B distributor recruitment and support - B2C consumer influence, opinion, leadership and engagement - Grow your brand awareness, credibility, and trust - Own and control your online presence - Measure and manage your online success International business development websites and marketing that will help your company be found, be understood and easy to do business with in your top two target markets (for example China and Mexico, or Canada and Germany). Global websites and marketing managed for you by IBT Online's team of international digital natives.
Investor
2001
Merrimack is a biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that is outthinking cancer to ensure that patients and their families live fulfilling lives. Its mission is to transform cancer care through the smart design and development of targeted solutions based on a deep understanding of cancer pathways and biological markers. All of Merrimack's development programs, including four clinical studies in distinct indications and six candidates in preclinical development, fit into its strategy of 1) understanding the biological problems it is trying to solve, 2) designing specific solutions and 3) developing those solutions for biomarker-selected patients. This three-pronged strategy seeks to ensure optimal patient outcomes. For more, please visit Merrimack's website at www.merrimack.com or connect on Twitter at @MerrimackPharma.
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1997
Entrepreneurs Fund is a pan-European venture capital fund that invests actively in life science and technology businesses to accelerate their development. We use our 170-year global family business heritage to help ambitious companies deliver their innovations to the world.
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2019
Investor
Jun 2019
At Devoted Health, we’re on a mission to dramatically improve the health and well-being of older Americans by caring for every person like family. Founded in 2017, weve grown fast and now serve members all across the United States. Weve gathered smart, diverse, and big-hearted people to create a new kind of all-in-one healthcare company — one that combines compassion, health insurance, clinical care, service, and technology -- to deliver a complete and integrated healthcare solution that delivers high quality care that everyone would want for someone they love. Were only just getting started! So join us on this mission: https://devoted.com/careers/
2014
Investor
2014
CognitiveScale pioneered the concept of ‘Trusted AI”, paving the way for responsible Enterprise AI development worldwide. Backed by 164 AI patents, the Cortex platform empowers data scientists and citizen developers to build, understand and analyze intelligent, transparent & trusted AI systems using any data, on any cloud. By simplifying the development, deployment and management of AI systems, CognitiveScale is revolutionizing how organizations across industries–healthcare, financial services, insurance and digital commerce– engage with customers, optimize services and deliver on bottom line goals—all while protecting them from business risk. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, CognitiveScale is recognized by the World Economic Forum for positively impacting business and society through AI with active investment from Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, IBM Watson, M12 (Microsoft Ventures), and USAA.
2008
Investor and Adviser
2008
Crimson Hexagon helps global brands better understand their consumers. With instant access to the world’s largest volume of unstructured text and images across social, online public, and enterprise-held data sources, Crimson Hexagon’s AI-powered consumer insights platform allows clients to analyze audiences, track brand perception and campaign performance, and even detect competitive and market trends. Our clients include Anheuser-Busch InBev, Adidas, General Mills, Paramount Pictures, and Twitter. Find us on Twitter @CrimsonHexagon.
2007
Investor
2007
SOASTA, now part of Akamai, is the leader in performance measurement and analytics. The SOASTA platform enables digital business owners to gain unprecedented and continuous performance insights into their real user experience on mobile and Web devices – in real time, and at scale. With more than 10 million tests performed and more than 100 billion user experiences measured, SOASTA is the digital performance expert trusted by industry-leading companies including Experian, Hallmark, Intuit, and Microsoft. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information please visit www.soasta.com
2006
Investor and Adviser
2006
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