Investing Profile

Peter Sonsini(1)

Angel
Co-founder and General Partner at Laude Ventures
Menlo Park, California
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Networks Peter is a member of
University of California, Berkeley Network
609 CONNECTIONS
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management Network
225 CONNECTIONS
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Network
125 CONNECTIONS
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Network
95 CONNECTIONS
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Network
95 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. New Incubation Ventures General Partner
Investment Range
$5K - $50K
Sweet Spot
$25K
Investments On Record
76

Peter Sonsini is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Peter Sonsini's Investments On Record (29)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Tensormesh
SeedMay 2026$20M
SeedOct 2025$5M
$25M
Co-investors: Ray Wu (Alumni Ventures ), Steve O'Hara (The Valley Fund)
Perplexity
Series UnknownJul 2025$100M
Series BJan 2024$74M
Series AMar 2023$26M
$1.3B
Co-investors: Somesh Dash (IVP), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Stanley Druckenmiller (Quantum Wave Fund), Daniel Gross (Various), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Mattia Astori, Dylan Field, Balaji Srinivasan, Jeff Bezos, Guillermo Rauch, Shane Neman, Tobias Lutke, Bob Muglia, Amjad Masad
Forethought
Series DMay 2025$25M
Series CDec 2021$65M
Series BOct 2020$17M
Series ADec 2018$9M
$120M
Co-investors: Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), Yan-David Erlich (B Capital Group), Alex Kolicich (8VC), Sandhya Venkatachalam (Khosla Ventures), Karan Mehandru (Madrona Ventures), Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton Capital), Ben Casnocha (Village Global), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Anne Dwane (Village Global), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Christopher Manning (AIX Ventures), Trevor McFedries (Techstars), Robert Downey Jr (TNB Aura), Taylor Greene (Twelve Below), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Gwyneth Paltrow, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Andy Coravos, Mathilde Collin, Baron Davis
Arcade.dev
SeedMar 2025$12M
$72M
Co-investors: Jay Leek (Syngenta Ventures), Chip Hazard (Flybridge Capital Partners), Mike Volpi (Hanabi Capital)
Instabase
Series DJan 2025$100M
Series CJun 2023$45M
Series BOct 2019$110M
Series AJun 2017$23M
SeedAug 2015$4M
$280M
Co-investors: Martin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz), Jerry Chen (Greylock), Sarah Cannon (Index Ventures), William Reed (Spark Capital), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital), Nitesh Banta (Getaround)
AISquared
Series AApr 2024$14M
SeedJun 2022$6M
$20M
Co-investors: Greg Papadopoulos (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Andrew McMahon (Ridgeline Partners), Allan Jean-Baptiste (Ansa Capital)
Granica
Series AJun 2023$45M
$45M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Frederic Kerrest
Antimatter
Series AMar 2022$12M
$360M
Co-investors: Greg Papadopoulos (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Noor Sweid (SparkLabs Global Ventures)

Peter Sonsini's Experience

WW Product Marketing Manager Hewlett Packard EnterprisePresent
Board Member ConvivaPresent
Board Member DatabricksPresent
Board Member MatroidPresent
Board Member InstabasePresent
Board Member AnyscalePresent
Board Member PerplexityPresent
Investor PerplexityPresent
Venture Advisor New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Present
Founding Advisor Laude InstitutePresent
General Partner, Head of Software Investing New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Present
Co-founder and General Partner Laude VenturesPresent
Senior Director, Strategic Alliances VMware2001 - 2005
Director of Product Management Mirapoint1998 - 2001
WW Product Marketing Manager Hewlett-Packard1996 - 1998

Peter Sonsini's Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management MBA
University of California, Berkeley BA Political Economy of Industrial Societies

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