Peter Rip

Who is Peter Rip?

Peter Rip brings over 22 years of experience as a successful

entrepreneur, private venture investor, and institutional investor. He

has focused primarily on early stage technology companies. Before

becoming a venture investor, Mr. Rip co-founded Silicon Compiler

Systems, a major IC design automation company acquired by Mentor

Graphics in 1991. Mr.Rip has been the lead investor in companies

acquired by AOL, Computer Associates, HP, Microsoft, and many others.

He began venture investing in 1992, investing in several early stage

companies acquired by AOL, Microsoft, HNC Software, and Infoseek. Prior

to co-founding Leapfrog Ventures in 2000, Peter was the Managing

Director of Knight Ridder Ventures, the venture capital subsidiary of

Knight Ridder, Inc. Mr. Rip has a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Stanford

Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Brandeis University. He has

also been a member of the marketing faculty of the University of

Chicago GSB. Peter's weblog can be accessed at: http://earlystagevc.typepad.com.