Peter Rip topic

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.