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Part 1: The Idea
Talks about Startup, Entrepreneurship and Ideas
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Peter Barrett
General Partner at Playground Global
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Peter Barrett is the Founder and General Partner at Playground Global, a venture capital firm investing in various sectors including AutoTech, DeepTech, Security, BioTech, and AI in the San Francisco Bay Area. With an extensive career in technology and investment, he has successfully invested in companies like Anjuna, Element Zero, and Universal Hydrogen, and serves on the boards of multiple innovative startups.
Work Experience
Founder and General Partner
2015 - Current
Playground is an early-stage deep tech venture capital firm backing technical and scientific founders
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2019
Board Member
2018
Anjuna enables organizations to securely embrace the cloud by leveraging confidential computing technologies without changing applications.
Raised $67,120,000.00 from Playground Global, SineWave Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, M Ventures, Alpha Intelligence Capital, Insight Partners, Founder Collective, Playground Global, Insight Partners and Uncorrelated Ventures.
Board Member
2018
Artificial is a software company that develops a lab automation platform.
Raised $21,500,000.00 from M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Playground Global and AME Cloud Ventures.
Board Member
2017
Board Member
2016
PsiQuantum focuses on developing a scalable quantum computer using photonic qubits.
Raised $1,280,168,416.00 from Queensland Government and Australian Government.
Board Member
2016 - 2021
CTO
2014 - 2015
Building something that is very interesting.
CTO
2011 - 2014