Stuart Peterson

President & General Partner

Artis Ventures

San Francisco, CA, USA

Stuart Peterson’s Biography

Stuart Peterson is Founder, President and General Partner at venture capital firm, Artis Ventures.

In 2001 Stuart Peterson founded Artis Ventures, a San Francisco based Venture Capital firm. As a technology investor, Stuart led the development of private venture technology and life science investing. He now holds the title of President and General Partner of Artis Ventures.

Stuart has invested over $465 million in private companies such as Youtube, Netflix and StemCentx. In 2017, due to his achievements and investments with Artis Ventures, he was recognised as a Forbes Midas List honouree, New York Times/CB Insights Top 100 Honouree and TechCrunch VC of the Year Finalist.

Stuart currently serves on the Board of Directors at IDbyDNA, TAE LifeSciences, Transparent Health Marketplace and Locus BioSciences. Additionally, Stuart Peterson performs as a Board Advisor for tech company, Cohesity, the clinical support software company, Fabric Genomics and Excision BioTherapeutics, a firm using gene editing science to create treatments for deadly diseases such as HIV. Philanthropically, he was a Trustee for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he was actively engaged in the Human Needs Project.

Prior to his career, Stuart Peterson achieved a BA in Economics for the University of California and an MBA in Analytic Finance from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.

Stuart Peterson’s Newsfeed

PR Newswire

Seed Health Closes $40 Million in Series A Financing to Launch New Categories, Accelerate Global...

...Distribution and Expand Clinical Research. In an article written by PR Newswire, Stuart Peterson is mentioned regarding ARTIS Ventures' investment into the microbial sciences company, Seed Health. He says: "We are incredibly impressed with Seed Health's decentralized model in microbiome, which enables them to efficiently advance breakthrough research from discovery to development, validation, clinical research, and scale up."

Business Wire

Transparent Health Marketplace Closes $30 Million Series C Funding Round Led by ARTIS Ventures

Stuart Peterson, Founder of ARTIS Ventures, is featured in an article written by Business Wire regarding ARTIS Ventures' investment in Transparent Health Marketplace Inc. Stuart says: "Consumers, payors and providers are all paying the price for the inefficiencies within the current healthcare structure, THM is using their tech-enabled marketplace to simplify and streamline how medical services are accessed and delivered, reducing the enormous amount of wasteful spending that is happening today.”

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Stuart Peterson’s Background

Artis Ventures

President & General Partner

2001 - Present

San Francisco, CA, USA

Founded in 2002, Artis Ventures is a dedicated Tech Bio VC company that has driven early-stage investments in companies such as YouTube and Stemcentrx, a company aimed at curing cancer.

Board Positions

Transparent Health Marketplace

Board of Directors

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Transparent Health Marketplace is an innovative and dynamic platform that allows providers and payors of workers’ compensation healthcare services to connect in a marketplace that features market-driven pricing.

IDbyDNA

Board of Directors

San Francisco, CA, USA

IDbyDNA is a biotechnology company aimed at creating the standards for the understanding and identification of microorganisms and the role they play in human health.

TAE Life Sciences

Board of Directors

San Francisco, CA, USA

Founded in 2017, TAE Life Sciences is developing new technologies for target oncology treatments.

Versa Networks

Board of Directors

San Francisco, CA, USA

Versa Network is a technology software company, founded in 2012, that provides highly efficient managed services as well as technology to build secure enterprise networks.

Locus Biosciences

Board of Directors

San Francisco, CA, USA

Locus Biosciences was founded in 2015 as a platform to create treatments for life-threatening diseases such as resistant bacterial infections.

Fabric Genomics

Board Observer

San Francisco, CA, USA

Founded in 2009, Fabric Genomics provides clinical support software enabling clinical labs and hospital systems to obtain an understanding of actionable genomics.

Cohesity

Board Observer

San Jose, CA, USA

Cohesity is a technology company, founded in 2013. The firm designs and innovates software allowing companies and IT professionals to manage, backup and gain data insights across numerous systems.

Excision BioTherapeutics

Board Observer

Oakland, CA, USA

Founded in 2015, Excision BioTherapeutics develops gene-editing medicines to treat and address critical diseases caused by viral infections.

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Philanthropy

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Trustee

Nov 2007 - Dec 2019

San Francisco, CA, USA

The SFMOMA was founded in 1935 as the first museum on the West Coast dedicated to modern and contemporary art. The museum exhibits the most innovative and challenging art created by both established and less established artists.

Stuart Peterson’s Education

The University of Chicago

M.B.A. in Analytic Finance

University of California, Los Angeles

B.A. in Economics