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Andrew Peterson
Founding GP at Aviso Ventures
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Andrew Peterson is a seasoned investor, CEO, and founder based in Seattle, Washington, with a strong track record in cross-functional team leadership and product development. Highlights of his career include founding Signal Sciences, serving as its former CEO and board member, and making successful investments in various startups such as Opal Security and runZero, Inc.
Currently, Andrew is the Founding GP at Aviso Ventures, a Fund Advisor at Decibel Partners, and an active investor and board member in companies like SGNL and Sublime Security, focusing on sectors like cybersecurity, SMB software, and SaaS in the Seattle/Portland area.
Work Experience
Founding GP
2023 - Current
We founded Aviso Ventures to invest in the next generation of enterprise, infrastructure software leaders. Building companies is damn hard. We know it from having done it and are investing our experience and capital into startups to give them a competitive advantage while growing their companies.
Investing in Enterprise Software, Specializing in Early Stage Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data, AI.
Founder, Former CEO, Board Member
2013
Signal Sciences was acquired in 2020 by Fastly for $825M. I was cofounder, CEO, and Chairman of the board for the 8 years and lead the company in revenue growth from 0 to 100m run rate. Signal Sciences protects customers critical web sites, mobile apps, APIs, and microservices. We founded the company based on our experience facing the challenges building an in house security team at Etsy and wanted to take our lessons learned and give back to the community while building world class security solutions. It worked and still does.
Signal Sciences is a software as a service platform providing security monitoring and defense for your web applications.
Raised $61,700,000.00 from CRV, Harrison Metal, Index Ventures, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures and Lead Edge Capital.
Fund Advisor
2022
Decibel is an independent venture capital firm that provides resources to entrepreneurs.
Investor / Board Member
2021
Modern enterprise authorization with human-readable policies and an understanding of business context to deliver just-in-time authorization
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Cisco Investments, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Resolute Ventures, Fika Ventures, Cisco Investments, Costanoa Ventures and Moonshots Capital.
Investor
2023
Investor and Advisor
2023
Impart Security is a complete API security platform designed to enable security and development teams to protect their APIs.
Raised $7,700,000.00 from Mango Capital and CRV.
Investor
2022
runZero (formerly Rumble Network Discovery) provides unmatched asset inventory and network visibility solutions.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Slavik Markovich, Decibel Partners, Oliver Friedrichs, David Eckstein, Rishi Bhargava, Jack Naglieri, Chris Nickerson, Michael Sutton, Paul DiMarzo and Ash Devata.
Investor
2022
Advisor
2022
Advisor
2022