2023 Peterson Ventures LP Conference
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You are the architects of the future. For over two decades and across 200+ companies, we’ve stood witness to the fact that people like you are the key differentiator in success. This September, join us alongside other tenacious game-changers who have the optimism and passion to back businesses that make a difference.
Change Makers, let’s gather.
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Event schedule:
Thurs
21
2:00pm-4:00pm
Peterson Ventures Fund Updates + CEO Presentations
Gallery Ballroom
Keynote Panel on Artificial Intelligence
Josh Wilson
CEO & Co-Founder, Particl
Josh is the CEO and Founder of Particl, an AI platform that uses AI to help brand owners learn what they don’t know about their competitor’s top selling products, pricing strategies and more to benchmark performance and quickly identify profitable opportunities in the market. He has an undergrad degree in Economics and a master’s in Financial Economics.
Kyle Roche
CEO & Founder, GripTape
Kyle is the CEO and Founder of Griptape Leads, a modular open-source framework that allows developers to build and deploy conversational and event-driven AI apps that can access and manipulate data safely and reliably. Previously, he founded 2lemetry (acquired by Amazon) and was a former AWS GM who started and ran IoT, AR/VR, VFX, Nimble Studio, Location Service, and Simulation.
Stephanie Grayson
Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Cambio
Stephanie is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Cambio, a software company using data science and AI to automate energy measurement, reporting, and delivery of accretive retrofits for real estate. Prior to Cambio, Stephanie was a commercial real estate investor, helping to build new real estate verticals at KKR and Goldman Sachs where she invested billions of dollars in global commercial real estate acquisitions and financings. She earned an MBA and MS in the Sustainable Built Environment at Stanford and graduated with Advanced Standing from Harvard in three years.
Loren Larsen
CEO & Co-Founder, Videra Health
Loren is the CEO and Co-Founder of Videra Health, a company focused on helping measure and assess health status using video and artificial intelligence. Loren is passionate about augmenting healthcare with machine learning to let patients be seen in a scalable way and ensure critical patient data is extracted that would otherwise be missed in a purely human interaction. He is an expert at developing technology that accurately analyzes human language and emotion. He has a BS in computer science from the University of Utah, and a MS in computer science from Clemson University.
Caleb Hicks
CEO & Founder, SchoolAI
Caleb is the CEO and Founder of School AI. He is an educator, founder, and angel investor with 15+ years of experience in instructional design, learning experience design, educational leadership, and early-stage startups. He founded SchoolAI to build AI-powered tools for teachers and school leaders that make their schools magic by bringing personal AI -powered tools, tutors, and learning activities to every classroom. Caleb also founded and continues to support Factor, a non-profit helping students test drive careers and lifestyles by working with professionals from cool companies like Apple, SpaceX, and the San Antonio Spurs.
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Trevor McKendrick
CEO and Co-Founder, Seis
Trevor believes entrepreneurship is the best form of business. His weekly newsletter "How It Actually Works" is read by over 10,000 founders, investors, and executives.
Seis is banking built 100% in Spanish for Spanish speakers living in the US.
Dugal Bain-Kim
CEO and Co-Founder, Lifeforce
Dugal founded Lifeforce in 2022 alongside Joel Jackson, Tony Robbins, and Dr. Peter Diamandis. An Australian-born technology and healthcare executive, Dugal has held leadership positions in finance (including at BlackRock), management consulting, and healthcare technology across three continents.
Lifeforce is a proactive health and longevity company empowering people 30+ to think clearer, feel stronger, and live longer. They combine convenient diagnostics, science-backed nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals, and practical lifestyle support to help adults live at their best for themselves, their families, and their communities.
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Ella Zhang
CEO and Co-Founder, Trendsi
Ella is co-founder and CEO of Trendsi, a fashion supply chain solution, revolutionizing how retailers and creators nurture and expand their brands through its agile supply chain infrastructure. Zhang grew up in China where her career began in e-commerce as a manager at Google and Tencent. From there, Ella became an investment principal at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), where she invested in JD, the Amazon equivalent in China. Zhang came to the U.S. to pursue entrepreneurship and obtained an MBA from Stanford GSB, where motherhood inspired her to empower mompreneurs and founded Trendsi.
Trendsi is a one-stop shop supply chain solution, empowering small sellers to build and scale e-commerce businesses. The turnkey SaaS platform helps sellers source products, manage inventory with no minimums, and fulfill orders. The platform uses just-in-time manufacturing, aided by AI and machine learning, to predict sales and guide product manufacturing, reducing the costs of excess inventory.
Desmond Lim
CEO and Co-Founder, Workstream
Desmond Lim is CEO and Co-Founder of Workstream.us, an automated hiring platform for companies hiring hourly workers. He is a graduate of Harvard and MIT Media Lab, former product manager at WeChat and investor at Dorm Room Fund. He is based in San Francisco.
Workstream is the smarter way to hire and retain hourly workers. Their mobile-first platform automates HR tasks like sourcing, onboarding, managing, and communicating with your workforce. More than 20,000 businesses trust Workstream’s smart technology to hire faster and retain better.
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Attendee Directory
- Emma
- Cueva
Sun seeker, gym lover and in love with my family
- Lawyer
- Cave Developments
We invest for the future well being of our family.
- Colton
- Homer
University of Utah Alum (MAcc program).
- CFO
- LRF Ventures
Family office that manages a portfolio of venture capital, real estate, and technology companies.
- Ronald
- Kennedy
Investing in Startups
- CEO
- Brighton
Investors
- Jason
- Lewis
2014 West Point graduate, former Field Artillery Officer and Notre Dame MBA
- Investor
- Brombies LLC
Family Investment
- Bob
- Nakasone
4 Adult Children; 10 Grandkids
- Principal
- NAK Enterprises
Consulting/Family Investments
- Junko
- Nishimae
I am active and love nature.
- General Manager
- Kirin Holdings Company, Ltd.
Founded in 1907, the company operates in the alcohol and beverage and the pharmaceutical business.
- Tricia
- Osborn
Following in the footsteps of my late husband, passionate about investing.
- President
- Osborn Companies
Founded by Warren Osborn, a successful serial entrepreneur. Now a family-run investment company.
- Tom
- Stringham
Outside of work I love skiing, water sports and riding motorcycles.
- Managing Partner
- UGF
Venture/Growth Equity Fund. High priority on education by providing internships to college interns.
- Rob
- Taylor
Husband, father, engineer, traveler
- Manager
- Doune Assets LLC
Family Investment fund
- Peter
- Vidmar
Former Olympic gymnast, current very sub-Olympic mountain biker.
- VP/Lead Relationship Manager
- Northern Trust
Full Service Private Bank, serving companies and individuals.
