Damien Petty

FOCUS

Damien is primarily focused on sourcing new investments and working with Morpheus portfolio companies.

UNIQUE AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Automation, Computational Bio and Quantum Computing.

CURRENT ROLES

Board Member/Observer of Ten63 Therapeutics, VeriSIM Life and Vintra.

PREVIOUSLY

Damien led Morpheus’ investments in Rigetti Computing (RGTI), Vicarious (Acq. by Alphabet) and Starship Technologies; and before Morpheus, he led investments in DeepMind Technologies (Acq. by Google), Vivino, Fanduel (Acq. by Flutter), Bossa Nova Robotics and Spirosure (Acq. by CAIRE Inc.)

Damien was part of the team representing Skype’s founders in all major transactions, including the company’s sale to eBay, private equity buyout and sale to Microsoft for $8.5 billion.

Corporate Development at Artisan Entertainment (Acq. by Lionsgate).

Consultant in the Strategic Consulting Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

BS in Physics from the University of Virginia and MBA from UCLA Anderson.