Ben Capell is managing director at Peterson Ventures. He has been with the firm since inception, raising more than $300 million in capital and overseeing investments in over 100 deals in his more than 10 years of experience — including leading the firm’s investments into six unicorns in the last decade, such as Allbirds, Ethos Life, Lucid Software and Nomi Health, among others.
Prior to joining Peterson Ventures, Capell was the first employee hired at an enterprise tech startup based in Northern Virginia and spent several years at Charles River Associates, a leading global economic and business consulting firm headquartered in Boston. Capell earned a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Brigham Young University, where he was a Hawes Scholar.