Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 12
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner
  • Investor Stage  Early Stage Venture, Seed

Stuart Peterson is the Managing General Partner and Founder at Artis Ventures (AV).

A 2017 Forbes Midas List honoree, TechCrunch VC of the Year Finalist, and NY Times/CB Insights Top 100 VC honoree, Stuart Peterson is a partner at ARTIS Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs driven to positively impact their

world through disruptive technological innovation. ARTIS led early-stage investments in media giant YouTube and cancer-curing Stemcentrx, which in 2016 became the largest-ever venture backed life sciences acquisition.

Stuart currently serves on the Board of Directors for IDbyDNA, an end-to-end and universal metagenomics platform, Versa Networks, the leading vendor in the SD-WAN and SD-Security markets, and Locus BioSciences, a next generation CRISPR genetic editing platform for precision antimicrobials.

He is a Board Advisor for Fabric Genomics, a genomic interpretation platform, Cohesity, an infinitely scalable, intelligent enterprise data storage platform, and Excision BioTherapeutics, a gene editing company focused on curing deadly viruses like HIV.

Stuart also currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the SFMOMA.

Stuart received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and his M.B.A. in Analytic Finance from The University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Stuart Peterson is the Managing General Partner and Founder at Artis Ventures (AV).
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 12
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
Stuart Peterson holds 12 board and advisor roles including Board Of Directors at Affect Therapeutics, Board Member at Transparent Health Marketplace, and Board Member at Zenrez.
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Nimble Storage
Board AdvisorJul 1, 2011Aug 31, 2012