Melissa Pegus
Managing Director at Techstars
Atlanta, Georgia
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2025 - Current
UpVentures Capital is an early-stage investor that makes minority investments in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies.
Partner
2025
Advisory
2025
Executive Member
2019
Pavilion is a private membership for high-growth leaders to achieve their professional potential.
Raised $25,000,000.00 from Elephant.
Managing Director
2022 - 2025
Managing Director for JP Morgan accelerator programs in Atlanta and New Orleans
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Instructor
2020 - 2025
MIT Enterprise Forum provides training, advisors, and resources for first-time entrepreneurs
Advisor
2018 - 2024
Advisor
2021 - 2023
Retina uses artificial intelligence to turn enterprise data into insights.
Raised $10,500,000.00 from Alpha Intelligence Capital and Vertical Venture Partners.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2021 - 2022
Senior Associate
2021 - 2021
Tech Square Ventures is a seed & early-stage venture fund that investing in enterprise, marketplace and platform, and tech enabled services
Chief Revenue Officer
2021 - 2022
Advisor
2020 - 2021
Chord offers a commerce-as-a-service software that provides businesses with technology and products to access meaningful data.
Raised $40,000,000.00 from Spencer Slaine, Foundation Capital, White Star Capital, Anti Fund, GC1 Ventures, Rose Street Capital, Bright Pixel (formerly Sonae IM), Imaginary Ventures, TechNexus Venture Collaborative and Eclipse Ventures.