Pete Jarvis
Limited Partner at rpv
Pete Jarvis
Limited Partner at rpv
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Limited Partner
2024 - Current
RPV is a deep tech venture capital fund that helps scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors and provides them with capital, network, and expertise. See https://rpv.global/
Fund Investor
2021
Lighter Capital is the leader in Revenue-Based Financing, Lighter has provided over $200 million in more than 700 rounds of financing to over 400 companies. A great team of people to know and work with. We provide tech entrepreneurs with access to non-dilutive financing to help grow their companies without giving up equity, board seats, or personal guarantees.
Advisor
2022
Valuation and Investment Solutions Gain AI-powered insights into the real estate industry of Canada To learn more register at https://offerland.ca/
Investor, Advisor
2021
Imagine if you arrived at a furniture store only to find pictures instead of products on display. That’s what shopping online is like today. 3D replicates a live product experience, but retailers aren't set up like game studios. Curie powers 3D to be anywhere with the largest library of 3D content, supplying e-commerce, AI-training, and the Metaverse. We use AI to generate 3D from 2D photos on the Web, digitizing entire stores and products at scale.
Investor, Advisor
2018
Joe is a service for independent coffee shops that allows them to accept mobile order ahead and payments from coffee lovers on-the-go at no extra cost to their business. Learn more at joe.coffee.
Advisory Board Member
2014
Buurst is focused on delivering the best Data Performance, Lowest Possible Cost, and Migration to the cloud. Buurst understands that our customers have hundreds of terabytes and even petabytes of data, and that data is growing exponentially. You, our customers need help getting the most value out of that data without paying an additional storage tax to move and store it in the cloud. We are excited about bringing Buurst to our industry! SoftNAS will live on as our flagship CloudNAS product and other products like our new migration product will soon follow.
Advisory Board Member
2013
Nimia is a Digital Asset Manager & Licensing Cloud Services Platform for companies to archive, license, and distribute master video content (intermediary codecs and original resolutions). As an agency, we included all of the services inherent to digital rights management for companies (copyright, licensing, model contracts, legal support) as resources through Nimia. Specialties licensing, video storage, video management, archival, file transfers, Intellectual Property Law
Investor, Advisor
2019 - 2022
Sold to HPE. TidalScale is a software inverse hypervisor, and it addresses the problem of software complexity by allowing a developer to work on a virtual computer of the right size for the problem. TidalScale does this by aggregating physical servers via software in the cloud or in your data center to run a single OS across the aggregated servers - one command prompt instead of many. Need a Server with 4tb of RAM? Why wait - create it by combining 4 servers in the cloud or in your data center. Company Awards / Mentions: - Red Herring: Top 100 Global Startups, 2017 - Red Herring: Top 100 North American Startups, 2017 - Gartner: Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing, 2017 - IDC: Innovator in Virtualizing Infrastructure with Software-Defined Compute, 2017 - eWeek - A little-known startup called TidalScale may well have come up with the biggest advance in servers since VMware's virtualization of the Intel IA-32 platform 18 years ago.
Vice President Of Business Development
2013 - 2019
Responsible for Business Development, Product Definition, Market Strategy and Sales Enablement - Helped Ike Nassi (Former Chief Scientist at SAP) found the company - Developed the business structure, product value proposition and technical architecture with Ike and team - Created the branding materials including logo, external messaging and go to market materials - Closed the first sale of the product solution - Responsible for partnerships with Infosys, Oracle, AWS, Suse, Canonical and RedHat amongst others What is TidalScale? TidalScale is a software inverse hypervisor, it addresses the problem of software complexity by allowing a developer to work on a virtual computer of the right size for the problem. TidalScale does this by aggregating physical servers via software in the cloud or in your data center to run a single OS across the aggregated servers - one command prompt instead of many. Need a Server with 4tb of RAM? Why wait - create it by combining 4 servers in the cloud or in your data center.
CEO
2011 - 2021
IBD LLC was a holding company for US board/consulting work, incubation of specific projects, and investment management.
Investor, Advisor
2017 - 2021
Polyverse was a start-up that used unique and highly effective Moving Target Defense technologies to protect against cyberattacks. Polyverse developed leading-edge cybersecurity technology which protected servers (patched and unpatched) against memory-based malware attacks by stopping attacks, including zero-day attacks before they start. The technology was deployed by government and security-conscious organizations and embedded in IoT devices and security solutions to protect against hackers. Polyverse Company Awards / Mentions: CNBC Top 100 Startups in the World Mission: "To solve cybersecurity problems once and for all. To work to create a world free from cybersecurity attacks that impact businesses, ruin lives and endanger the planet.", that and have fun working to achieve our mission.
Education
B.Sc. (Hons)
1987 - 1991