# Peter Lee

> Peter Lee is a seed investor at Baroda Ventures (Los Angeles) backing Finance and FinTech. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Baroda Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baroda-ventures)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ptlee
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ptlee
- Website: http://www.embark.vc
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ptlee

Peter Lee is a seed investor at Baroda Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Finance and FinTech. Peter Lee is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Embark Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finance | 2 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |
| Robotics | 1 | 17% |
| InsurTech | 1 | 17% |
| Insurance | 1 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Machina Labs | Machina Labs is a mechanical & industrial engineering & manufacturing firm that unlocks manufacturing through AI & machine learning. | $32M | Series B | Oct 05, 2023 |  |
| Machina Labs | Machina Labs is a mechanical & industrial engineering & manufacturing firm that unlocks manufacturing through AI & machine learning. | $16.3M | Series A | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| Machina Labs | Machina Labs is a mechanical & industrial engineering & manufacturing firm that unlocks manufacturing through AI & machine learning. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2020 |  |
| Policygenius | Policygenius is an insurance tech-startup that specializes in providing financial protection. The company focuses on providing solutions in the fields of finance, insurance, and insure-tech. Policygenius was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $750K | Seed | Jul 21, 2014 |  |
| Amplify.LA | Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit. The firm was founded in 2011, and has backed dozens of companies, which together have raised over half a billion dollars in funding, with exits to Apple, Google, FanDuel and others. |  |  | Apr 30, 2013 |  |
| Amplify.LA | Amplify is a pre-seed fund in Venice, CA dedicated to backing strong teams at the earliest stages and supporting from first check to exit. The firm was founded in 2011, and has backed dozens of companies, which together have raised over half a billion dollars in funding, with exits to Apple, Google, FanDuel and others. |  |  |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Congruent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/congruent-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Innovation Endeavors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-endeavors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nventures-0731) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Trajectory Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trajectory-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Baroda Ventures

VC Fund · Beverly Hills, United States

Baroda Ventures is a Los-Angeles-based venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed and seed stage investments in the consumer internet, e-commerce, mobile, SaaS, and digital media industries. It prefers to invest in companies based in Los Angeles. It is also open to investments in later stage companies and companies in hardware, cleantech, andhealthcare sectors. The firm prefers to invest $0.1 million and $5 million.Baroda Ventures was founded by David C. Bohnett in 1998 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

4 contacts available at Baroda Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Bohnett | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-bohnett |
| Liz Atherton | Controller | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liz-atherton |
| Paul Moore | Director of Special Projects | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-moore-4 |
| Peter Lee | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-lee |

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## FAQ

### What does Peter Lee invest in?

Peter Lee invests primarily in Finance, FinTech and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Peter Lee last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Peter Lee closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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