Peter Read
Partner @ Vitruvian Partners
London, United Kingdom
Peter Read is a seed investor at Vitruvian Partners in London focused on Software and Apps. Peter Read is based out of London and is the Cortex Partner of Vitruvian Partners. Peter previously worked at TOCCA as an angel investor. Peter Read attended the University of Oxford. Peter Read has been certified as a speaker at The E-Act Burnham Park Academy, Slough.
- Total investments:
- 20
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Peter Read invests in
Stages Peter Read invests in
Countries Peter Read invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $550k–$1.7M
- Series E
- $86M–$120M
- Series F
- $40M–$200M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (20%)
- Apps 3 (15%)
- Mobile 3 (15%)
- E-Commerce 3 (15%)
- Travel 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (50%)
- Series E 3 (15%)
- Series F 3 (15%)
- Angel 1 (5%)
- Series A 1 (5%)
Country
- United Kingdom 6 (30%)
- United States 5 (25%)
- Germany 3 (15%)
- India 2 (10%)
- Sweden 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Porter offers a range of on-demand logistics and moving services tailored to business and personal needs. It provides intra-city transport using mini-trucks, tempos, electric vehicles, and two-wheelers for delivering goods of varying sizes. Porter Enterprise supports businesses with managed bulk transport, distribution, and supply-chain workflows.Residential relocation is supported through its Packers & Movers offering, which includes moving and packing assistance. Additionally, inter-city courier services facilitate parcel delivery via air or surface to thousands of postal codes. | Secondary Market / May 08, 2025 | ||
| Turtlemint is an online insurance platform that identifies and purchases appropriate insurance policies for consumers. It aims to “demystify” insurance by explaining the jargon in a simple way and providing smart tools to help a user make the right choice. From search to purchase, the entire process can be completed online in just a few clicks.The company offers car insurance, bike insurance, health insurance, and term life insurance. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. | $120M / Series E / Apr 29, 2022 | ||
| Logically combines artificial intelligence with expert analysts to reduce the individual, institutional, and societal damage caused by misleading and deceptive online discourse. Working with governments and organisations around the world, Logically's unique combination of artificial and expert intelligence means we can apply scale and nuanceto the problems of mis- and disinformation, detecting, triaging, and responding to issues, as well as predicting and preventing emerging threats. | $24M / Series A / Mar 16, 2022 | ||
| Porter offers a range of on-demand logistics and moving services tailored to business and personal needs. It provides intra-city transport using mini-trucks, tempos, electric vehicles, and two-wheelers for delivering goods of varying sizes. Porter Enterprise supports businesses with managed bulk transport, distribution, and supply-chain workflows.Residential relocation is supported through its Packers & Movers offering, which includes moving and packing assistance. Additionally, inter-city courier services facilitate parcel delivery via air or surface to thousands of postal codes. | $99.9M / Series E / Oct 25, 2021 | ||
| SnapLogic provides a platform for enterprise cloud and big data integration. The company's Intelligent Integration Platform accelerates data and process flow across applications, databases, data warehouses, big data streams, and IoT deployments. Whether on-premises or in the cloud. It also enables the unification of multiple endpointsincluding SaaS, ERP applications, APIs, data warehouses, big data, and “things” – all on a single platform.Unlike traditional integration software that requires painstaking, hand-crafted coding by teams of developers, SnapLogic’s simple platform enables IT and business users to develop quality, scalable data pipelines that get the right data to the right people at the right time.SnapLogic balances design simplicity with platform power to obtain immediate value. The company's intuitive, cloud-based, self-service software allows for easy snap-and-assemble orchestrations via a drag-and-drop interface, robust enough for developers yet easy to master for citizen integrators. | $40M / Series F / Dec 07, 2016 | ||
| Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. | $110M / Series F / May 04, 2016 | ||
| Snap.hr is a recruitment platform designed exclusively for developers. Designed as a solution to what the company sees as ‘the fragmented and outdated’ traditional recruitment market, Snap.hr uses groundbreaking AI and machine learning technology, combined with a specialist in-house team, to match companies with skilled tech talent.To achievethis, Snap.hr is vastly improving matching, transparency and communication between businesses and job seekers, enabling not only better hiring, but also retention rates. | Seed / Mar 01, 2016 | ||
| Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. | $86M / Series E / Mar 04, 2015 | ||
| Car Throttle was started in 2009 after founder Adnan Ebrahim realised there was no online platform for people like him: young, millennial car enthusiasts. Dubbed ‘Buzzfeed for cars’, the site quickly evolved into a vibrant community serving millions of users - called CTzens - who follow the brand on its apps and major social media platforms.CarThrottle creates and distributes engaging car content and works closely with advertisers looking to reach a valuable audience. Their investors include the minds behind AOL, Facebook, Skype and MailOnline. | $550K / Seed / Aug 01, 2013 | ||
| Launched in 2012, and led by Founder & CEO, George Friedman, Qapital is a new kind of banking experience that empowers people to maximize their happiness by saving, spending, and investing with their goals in mind. By blending behavioral psychology with technology, Qapital provides people with the tools they need to make managing money easyand fun. The Qapital app is designed to help users better understand their saving, spending, and investing habits by highlighting the tradeoffs made when managing money. It allows users to save for their real-life goals with customizable, automated deposits that are linked to their everyday actions, like riding the bus, going to the gym, or buying a coffee. To help users spend more intentionally, Qapital provides an FDIC-insured checking account, Qapital Visa® Debit Card, and Weekly Spending Target tool to track day-to-day spending. And for more long-term goals, Qapital Invest, which is set to launch in Spring 2018, will bring a goal-based and automated approach to the world of investing, offering users an effortless way to grow their money and plan for their future. | $500K / Angel / May 16, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Vitruvian Partners
Vitruvian Partners is an equity firm that specializes in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts, and growth capital investments. Independent private equity firm that specialises in middle-market buyouts, growth buyouts and growth capital investments in the UK and elsewhere. The company backs exceptional management teams in businesses where thereis a major opportunity to create strategic value. They seek out companies where this opportunity exists through change or “Dynamic Situations”.
Vitruvian Partners Contacts
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Amit Tiwari
Managing Director
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Jussi Wuoristo
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Mike Risman
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Sophie Bower-Straziota
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Stephen Byrne
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FAQ
What does Peter Read invest in?
Peter Read invests primarily in Software, Apps and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series E stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Peter Read's check size?
Peter Read typically joins rounds of $550k–$1.7M at Seed, $86M–$120M at Series E and $40M–$200M at Series F. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Peter Read participates in.
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When did Peter Read last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Peter Read closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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