Peter Read
About Peter Read
Peter has been a technology investor for over 20 years and is now primarily focused, with his wife and daughters, on climate technology and climate/nature philanthropy. The Read Family Partnership backs top global climate technology funds like USV Climate, BlueYard, Lowercarbon, Atlantic FoodLabs, EF, Future Positive Capital, Plural, Acre, Transition, and Nattergal. The Read Family Foundation backs large scale philanthropic rewilding, regenerative agriculture, and biodiversity projects in Brazil, Mexico, India, Africa, Canada, Portugal and the UK. Peter is a Partner at Vitruvian, where he helps lead Climate/Sustainability investments, and was previously a Partner at Google Ventures. He is also a Venture Partner at BlueYard, and an advisor to The Climate Subak, Entrepreneur First, Future Positive Capital, Frazzled Cafe, StrongMinds, and the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation. He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups around the world, including: Farfetch (NYSE: FTCH), NevenVision (acquired by Google), Saynow (Google), Readmill (Dropbox), ReturnPath (Validity), Fizzback (Nice Systems), Techlightenment (Experian), uberVu (Hootsuite), Gidsy (GetYourGuide), Songkick (Livenation), Bandpage (Youtube), MoviePilot (Webedia), Diagonal View (Sky), AdjustYourSet (Oliver Group), ChicChickClub (JustFab), Sailthru (CM), Shopwiki (Oversee), GiveMeSport (Breaking Data), Launch Music (Yahoo), LoveFilm (Amazon), Skype (eBay), TastemakerX (Rdio), Mobix (Seachange), Kindo (MyHeritage), MusicNation (Universal Music), Preview Networks (Brave Bison), Quill (Webedia), Playahead (MTG), HSX (Cantor Fitzgerald), H2G2 (BBC), iFilm (MTV), Metacafe (The Collective), Liveplanet (Disney), Fandango (Comcast), WoolAndTheGang (Blue Gem), YPlan (Time Out), Tictrac (Dialogue), Car Throttle (Dennis Publishing), Mubi, MyHeritage (Francisco Partners), and Meevee (eUniverse). Peter remains a shareholder in: BigHealth, BookingBug, Business Of Fashion, Citymapper, Craft, Eyeclick, GetYourGuide, Hopster, Kukua, Medigo, Memrise, Mixlr, Omnius, PsiQuantum, Qapital, Roli, Snap.hr, SofarSounds, Styla, Tocca Peter was previously: Board Director of GP Bullhound and Entertainment Insights; President of Nielsen Entertainment; Governor at Beaconsfield High School; Trustee of Doteveryone; Fellow of Wellington College; digital advisor to Oxfam, Sport England, and The Roundhouse; and a film awards judge at BAFTA. He was an Associate Producer on Rabbit Fever and an (uncredited) actor in Flyin' Ryan which both received some of the worst reviews in movie history