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Peter Wagner

Founding Partner at Wing Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Peter Wagner is a Founding Partner at Wing Venture Capital in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in venture capital, private equity, and entrepreneurship. He has successfully invested in a range of companies including Hydrolix, Pinecone, Lumigo, and Gong, focusing on sectors such as security, data services, and enterprise technology. With experience as a Managing Partner at Accel Partners and roles at Silicon Graphics and McKinsey & Company, Peter has a proven track record in identifying and supporting high-growth startups. His expertise in strategic partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, and product management has contributed to his success in the tech investment space.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2011 - Current

    Wing works with ambitious founders building the AI-first technology stack - built on data, powered by AI, and put to work with increasingly autonomous applications. We invest early, before it’s obvious, leading Seed and Series A financings and engaging deeply with our signature company-building skills and resources. The body of work of Wing’s award-winning team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 23 of which have gone on to achieve billion-dollar-plus outcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. The current Wing portfolio includes some of today’s most important Modern Enterprise technology companies such as Snowflake, Cohesity and Gong.

Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses.

  • Managing Partner

    1996 - 2011

    I joined Accel as a young Associate. It was a small firm with big aspirations. When I left we were a global leader. I am grateful for the opportunity I had to learn from some of venture capital's best, and proud of the team and franchise we built.

Accel is an seed and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.

  • Product Line Manager

    1992 - 1996

    The most fun I've ever had professionally, and the most incredible alumni group I could ever hope to be a part of.

Silicon Graphics provides workstations for conceptual design analysis and simulation of 3D objects.

  • Business Analyst

    1988 - 1990

McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity

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