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Re-imagining the Rule of 40 for Early Stage Startups: The 70% Growth Efficiency Heuristic
Talks about Startup, Venture Capital and SaaS
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Sundeep Peechu
General Partner at Felicis
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Sundeep Peechu is a General Partner at Felicis in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a focus on investing in various sectors including AR/VR, Insurance, Hardware, Security, and E-commerce. He has made significant investments in companies like Cymmetria and has a strong background in venture capital, product management, and strategic partnerships.
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2010 - Current
Investing in icons of tomorrow. Felicis has invested in 3 $1B+ companies every year since founding. Investor in Cedar, Coalition, Ginkgo ($DNA), Juniper Square, Komodo Health, Matterport ($MTTR), Mercor, Plaid, Prenuvo, Recursion Pharma ($RXRX) and a few others.
Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Investor (Seed Lead and Board Observer)
2025
Cambridge Terahertz is pioneering terahertz imaging tech for security applications, particularly concealed weapons detection.
Investor (Lead Series B)
2024
Mercor helps AI models get better with expert human data. They’re one of the fastest growing companies of all time. Apply at Mercor.com/careers
Mercor is an AI-based hiring platform designed to improves the recruitment process for both job seekers and companies.
Raised $33,600,000.00 from Chris Re, Adam D’Angelo, General Catalyst, Jack Dorsey, Larry Summers, Benchmark and Peter Thiel.
Investor (Lead Series A and Board Member)
2021
70% of cancers don't have screening options. Prenuvo is pioneering a non-invasive full body 3D scan augmented by AI that can detect solid tumors at a very early stage.
Investor (Lead Series B and Board Member)
2020
Picnic powers medical research by creating a structurally complete view of patient data via machine learning
PicnicHealth helps patients easily access their medical records and gives them the opportunity to contribute data to medical research.
Raised $97,000,000.00 from Felicis, Amplify Partners and B Capital.
Investor (Series B co-lead)
2019
Coalition combines state of the art cyber security and best in class cyber insurance to keep over 140,000 businesses safe.
Coalition is a cyber insurance and security company that provides businesses to manage and mitigate cyber risks.
Raised $770,000,000.00 from Valor Equity Partners, Allianz X and Kinetic Partners.
Investor (Seed Lead and Board Observer)
2018
Cedar is an AI driven operating and planning platform for rail yards.
Cedar.AI is an AI-powered operating and planning software for rail yards.
Investor (Series A Lead and Board Observer)
2017
Juniper Square is the leading platform for managing private investments such as CRE, PE and VC. 1800+ funds currently manage over $1 Trillion of assets using Juniper Square.
Juniper Square operates an investment management platform for commercial real estate, private equity, and venture capital companies.
Raised $241,000,000.00 from Owl Rock Capital, Felicis, Pappy Capital, Fifth Wall, Ribbit Capital and Redpoint.
Investor (Series A/B co-lead and Board Observer)
2016
Komodo helps customers use software and data to power critical healthcare decisions. 19 of the Top 20 pharma companies use Komodo. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/komodo-health-anti-unicorn-sundeep-peechu/
Komodo Health is an IT firm that specializes in data engineering, life sciences, artificial intelligence, and machine intelligence services.
Raised $514,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group and Coatue.
Investor (Seed co-lead)
2013
Earnin builds tools to enable a more fair financial system. Their core product reframes the conversation about payday and allows users from over 25,000 companies to get paid for hours they've already worked.