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Peter Barrett
VCCo-Founder & General Partner, Playground Global
Deep tech inventor backing quantum and robotics
Palo Alto, CA4 notable investments
SeedSeries A
Deep TechHardwareAIInfrastructureBioClimate
Background
Peter Barrett co-founded Playground Global in 2015 and has been writing software since his teenage years. His career spans creating the first widely used video codec in the early 90s, building the world's most popular IPTV platform at Microsoft, and cloud intelligence for automotive at CloudCar. He holds over 100 patents and was a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow in 1996. He focuses on life sciences, next-gen compute, infrastructure, energy transition, and automation.
Investment Thesis
Invest in technologies that lie between improbable and impossible, where success will advance civilization.
Investment Focus
Stages
SeedSeries A
Sectors
Deep TechHardwareAIInfrastructureBioClimate
Based in: Palo Alto, CA (North America)
Notable Investments
Last updated: Jun 11, 2026