PC

Pete Casella

Founder

New York City Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $200,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $7,000,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Investments
Financial Technology
Asset Management
Business Services
Due Diligence
market structure
trading technology
exchanges

Education

Work Experience

2023

  • Founder

    2023

2016 - 2023

  • Founding Partner

    2016 - 2023

  • Executive Director

    2014 - 2016

    Strategic Investments - Focused on sourcing and executing venture and growth stage private investments in businesses that are strategic to the JPMorgan franchise. Coverage sectors include financial technology, market structure, enterprise software and infrastructure technologies, and asset management.

2010 - 2014

  • Director

    2012 - 2014

    Principal Investments Group - One of three investment professionals managing the firm’s direct venture capital portfolio. Focused on sourcing and executing early and growth stage venture investments that leverage Credit Suisse’s industry-leading capital markets franchise and the strength of our global IT organization for sourcing and due diligence, as a client, and as a channel partner to our customers. Sector coverage: Market structure (trading technologies, exchanges, financial services), big data / analytics, enterprise software

  • Vice President

    2010 - 2012

    Principal Investments Group

2004 - 2010

  • Vice President

    2004 - 2010

    Investment professional with responsibilities for sourcing, executing and managing growth equity investments. Sector coverage: Business Services, Software, Financial Services and Asset Management. Subsectors included business process outsourcing, knowledge outsourcing, legal outsourcing, IT services, alternative asset managers, fund services and compliance

JPMorgan Strategy & Development

2003 - 2004

  • Associate

    2003 - 2004

    Strategy & Development for JPMorgan's Asset & Wealth Management Platform

Bacchus Capital

2002 - 2003

  • Founder

    2002 - 2003

    Concert finance and production

JPMorgan Investment Banking

2000 - 2002

  • Analyst

    2000 - 2002

    Investment Banking Analyst in the Financial Institutions Group