Managing Partner
Gary has 25 years experience as a General Partner of institutional VCs. Peat’s primary focus throughout has been a seed lead investor in B2B Saas in the South/Southeast. Starting with Council Capital’s debut fund in 2000 in Nashville, Gary was a General Partner for 3 funds at Council Capital focused on seed and early stage B2B Saas serving health care. Prior to Council Capital, Gary was Principal at Stonehenge Partners. There he made his first seed stage investment, SecureTax.com, which was acquired by Intuit in 1999 and became Intuit’s Web Turbotax. In 2014, Gary left Council Capital to focus active seed-stage investing personally. In 2020, Gary joined Valor as a General Partner at the outset of Valor’s first institutional fund.
