About
Pete Soderling sources deals primarily from the grassroots technical community he built through Data Council rather than traditional VC channels, backing world-class engineers—often pre-company—via a Day Zero strategy.
Pete Soderling @petesoder
When you stop to think about it - one could say that agentic AI runs on two kinds of compute: inference and execution. Inference capacity is expanding all the time through techniques like MoE, quantization, continuous batching, PagedAttention, and FlashAttention. But the
Jul 31, 2026 · ♥ 12 · ⇄ 1
Pete Soderling @petesoder
"Forgiveness, not permission" for AI agents because staging tells you almost nothing about what an agent will do in production. Give an agent bash and a browser and it will find paths you cannot imagine. One of our portcos, @honeyhiveai, has a similar perspective. The https://t.co/GsdZFDaQF0
Jul 30, 2026
Pete Soderling @petesoder
Whether you agree with Anthropic or not, it’s worth understanding how Dario's arguments are landing inside one of the internet’s most technical communities. Grok 4.5 sentiment analysis of Hacker News discussion: https://t.co/kIi35tYPLy
Jul 29, 2026
Invests in
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Experience
- Zero Prime VenturesFounder & General Partnercurrent2020 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- AI CouncilFounder & CEOcurrent2013 — present
- Various StartupsAdvisor & Angel Investorcurrent2014 — present
- 500 StartupsMentor2013 — 2017
- Hakka LabsFounder2011 — 2013
- Stratus SecurityFounder2008 — 2011
- mechanikalFounder2004 — 2010
- Ziff Davis Media, Inc.Sr. Technical Architect2001 — 2004
- Concero, LLPTechnical Consultant2000 — 2001
- marchFirstTechnical Consultant2000
- VariousHacker/Programmer Guy1996 — 2000
Education
- New York UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Information Systems Management
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