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Spencer Peterson

General Partner at Coatue

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Spencer Peterson is the General Partner at Coatue, based in San Francisco, California, with a strong track record of successful investments in companies like APFusion and PayMongo. He has made significant contributions to Coatue's investment portfolio, focusing on sectors like FinTech and leading investments in various stages including Series B and Series A. Peterson has played a key role in funding successful startups such as Popmenu and has a background in investing with notable companies like Rippling, OpenAI, and Vercel, showcasing a diverse range of investment interests and expertise.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Investor

    2021

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT.

Raised $21,900,120,000.00 from Citi, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, HSBC and Santander.

  • Investor

    2019

Rippling is the workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, finance, and more.

Raised $1,987,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group, Coatue, Greenoaks, Founders Fund and Bossa Invest.

  • Investor

    2019

Flock Safety provides a full-service tech solution that helps communities prevent crime, shaping a safer future together.

Raised $380,584,142.00 from Bedrock, Initialized Capital, Tiger Global Management, Meritech Capital Partners, Matrix, Spark Capital, 776 Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Investor

    2024

SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that focuses on reducing the costs associated with space travel by using reusable rockets.

Raised $9,770,343,846.00 from Roman Smolevskiy.

  • Investor

    2021

  • Investor

    2022 - 2024

Bridge is developer of an application programming interface for money movement within the financial technology sector.

Raised $58,000,000.00 from Sequoia, Haun Ventures, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital and Diogo Mónica.

  • Investor

    2020 - 2024

Vercel is a software company that provides cloud infrastructure services to save and secure personalized web.

Raised $563,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, SV Angel, Google Ventures, Notable Capital, Geodesic Capital, 8VC, Bedrock, Accel and CRV.

  • Investor

    2020 - 2024

Rinsed is a provider of easy-to-use customer relationship management software for the car wash industry.

Raised $35,000,000.00 from VMG Partners.

  • Investor

    2019 - 2024

Playground is the one-stop shop for all of the operational and financial needs of early childhood education centers.

Raised $3,350,000.00 from Bedrock and Human Capital.

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