Tripp Peake

Tripp Peake is a general partner at LRVHealth (formerly Long River Ventures). Immediately prior to Long River, he was a partner at Kestrel Venture Management, where he focused on the management of Mass Ventures Equity Fund, a $14 million early stage fund established in Western Massachusetts in 1997. Before joining Kestrel, Peake was cofounder and CEO of two venture development consulting companies: Mass Ventures, based in Amherst, and associated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Science Park Associates, based in New Haven, Conn., and associated with Yale University. Both of these companies provided university spinoffs and regional entrepreneurs with strategic and financing advice and helped raise over $50 million in private equity for 18 different early stage ventures.

Peake serves or has served on numerous boards, including Extreme Reach, Health Guru, Optasite (acquired by SBA Communications), Profile Systems (acquired by Comergent), Protedyne (acquired by LabCorp), Qteros, Sovereign Hill Software (acquired by Dataware), and Western Mass Radio Group (acquired by Pamal Broadcasting).

Peake holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Yale University.