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
719 CONNECTIONS
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management Network
264 CONNECTIONS
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Network
160 CONNECTIONS
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Network
112 CONNECTIONS
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Network
112 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
77

Peter Sonsini is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Peter Sonsini's Investments On Record (29)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Databricks
Private EquityAug 2026$5B
Series HAug 2021$1.6B
Series GFeb 2021$1B
Series FOct 2019$400M
Series EFeb 2019$250M
Series DAug 2017$140M
Series CDec 2016$60M
Series BJun 2014$33M
$31B
Co-investors: Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz), David George (Andreessen Horowitz), John Curtius (Tiger Global Management), John Wolff (Insight Partners), Everett Randle (Benchmark), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Hao Huang (UpHonest Capital), Shahin Farshchi (Lux Capital), James Ephrati (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Jared Sleeper (Avenir), Florian Seroussi (355 Capital), Chintan Patel (Venture Guides), Alfred Chuang (Race Capital), Omar Haque (Brookfield Asset Management), Shawn Dimantha (Self-employed), Mattia Astori, Miras Mami
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: Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Talia Goldberg (Bessemer Venture Partners), Shravan Narayen (IVP), Somesh Dash (IVP), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Daniel Gross (Various), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Joshua Müller (Headline (formerly e.ventures)), Stanley Druckenmiller (Quantum Wave Fund), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Yann LeCun (AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Sara Thomas Deshpande (Maven Ventures), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Jeff Bezos, Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Balaji Srinivasan, Tobias Lutke, Shane Neman, Bob Muglia, Mattia Astori
Forethought
Series DMay 2025$25M
Series CDec 2021$65M
Series BOct 2020$17M
Series ADec 2018$9M
$120M
Co-investors: Yan-David Erlich (B Capital Group), Alex Kolicich (8VC), Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), Sandhya Venkatachalam (Social Capital), Karan Mehandru (Madrona Ventures), Sri Pangulur (Tribe Capital), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Christopher Manning (AIX Ventures), Trevor McFedries (Techstars), Robert Downey Jr (TNB Aura), Taylor Greene (Twelve Below), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Ben Casnocha (Village Global), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Anne Dwane (Village Global), Suranga Chandratillake (Balderton Capital), Gwyneth Paltrow, Mathilde Collin, Andy Coravos, Baron Davis, Kelvin Beachum Jr.
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: Jerry Chen (Greylock), Martin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz), Sarah Cannon (Index Ventures), William Reed (Spark Capital), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Nitesh Banta (Getaround), Peter Boyce II (Stellation Capital)
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

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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