Team
Investment Professionals
Tripp Peake - Managing Partner
Tripp Peake is a Managing Partner of Long River Ventures and brings over 20 years of venture building and investing
experience to the funds.
Immediately prior to Long River, Tripp 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. Tripp 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). Before joining Kestrel, Tripp was co-founder and CEO of two
venture development consulting companies: Mass Ventures, based in Amherst, MA and associated with the University of
Massachusetts; and Science Park Associates, based in New Haven, CT and associated with Yale University. Both of these
companies provided university spin-offs and regional entrepreneurs with strategic and financing advice and helped raise
over $50 million in private equity for 18 different early stage ventures. Tripp holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and
an M.B.A from Yale University.
Will Cowen - Managing Partner
Will joined Long River Ventures in 2002 and serves as a Managing Partner. He brings over 20 years of early stage
company building experience as a CEO of several start-ups, and as an early stage venture investor.
Will founded his most recent company, NaviNet, in 1998 with backing from North Bridge Venture Partners, Atlas Venture,
and GE Equities. Today, NaviNet is a leading healthcare IT firm which streamlines transactions between healthcare payers
and over 800,000 healthcare providers. Prior to NaviNet, Will was CEO of venture-backed Pegasus Medical Technologies, an
electronic medical records company sold to HBOC/McKesson (NYSE:MCK). Early in his career, Will was a founder and VP/Business
Development at consumer products company, Thermocell, which is today a $500 million dollar division of the Hunter Douglas
Company. On the investing side, Will was a Managing Partner of Interface Technologies and Firepond Partners, two early stage
healthcare funds. Will serves, or has served, on the board of numerous companies including Aircuity, Eggrock, GetWellNetwork,
LifeIMAGE, Medical Metrx Systems, MedVentive, Phreesia, and Verax Biomedical. Will holds a B.A. from the University of
Colorado and an M.B.A. from MIT.
Michael Barach - Venture Advisor
Michael Barach serves as a Venture Advisor for Long River and as General Partner for Village Ventures. Michael is an
experienced venture investor and an accomplished entrepreneur.
Prior to Long River, Michael served as CEO and President of Mothernature.com. At Mothernature, Michael raised $113 million through three
private rounds and an IPO in December 1999. He recruited and built the entire senior team, and grew the company from eight employees to
a peak of 225. Mothernature.com won numerous customer and industry awards, including a spring 2000 Gomez Award as the leading e-commerce
health site on the Internet. From 1990 to 1998, Michael was employed by Bessemer Venture Partners, where he specialized in the telecommunications,
retail, and electronic commerce categories. Michael was a Partner at Bessemer from 1994 until 1998. Prior to 1990, Michael held several executive
management positions in various retail organizations. Michael holds a B.A. from Amherst College, and both a J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard.
Joseph Steig - CFO and Investment Analyst
Joseph has over fifteen years of experience in finance and operations with equity-backed ventures and has also worked as a technology economic
development consultant. He has particular investment analyst experience in the IT, media, and Cleantech sectors. Joseph holds a B.A. from Hampshire
College and has done post-graduate work in finance and management.
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