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 as board member or observer, including Clarity Imaging, Optasite, Profile Systems, Protedyne, Reconda International, Sovereign Hill Software, and WRNX Radio. 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 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, NaviMedix, in 1998 with backing from North Bridge Venture Partners, Atlas Venture, and GE Equities. Today, NaviMedix is a leading healthcare IT firm which streamlines transactions between healthcare payers and over 250,000 healthcare providers. Prior to NaviMedix, 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 Afferent, Aircuity, GetWellNetwork, 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.