Peter Zaitsev
CEO & Founder @ Percona
Durham, United States
Peter Zaitsev is a seed investor at Percona in Durham focused on Database and Software. Peter Zaitsev is CEO and co-founder of Percona. A serial entrepreneur, Peter enjoys mixing business leadership with hands-on technical expertise. Previously he was an early employee at MySQL AB, one of the largest open source companies in the world, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008. Prior to joining MySQL AB, Peter was CTO at SpyLOG,which provided statistical information on website traffic. Peter is the co-author of the popular book, High Performance MySQL, and blogs regularly on Percona Performance Blog. He has a Master’s in Computer Science from Lomonosov Moscow State University and is one of the award winning leaders of the world MySQL community. Peter blogs regularly on Percona Performance Blog and speaks frequently at technical and business conferences including the Percona Live series, SouthEast LinuxFest, All Things Open, DataOps LATAM, Silicon Valley Open Doors, HighLoad++ and many more.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Peter Zaitsev invests in
Stages Peter Zaitsev invests in
Countries Peter Zaitsev invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $50k–$3.6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Database 2 (40%)
- Software 2 (40%)
- Analytics 2 (40%)
- SEO 1 (20%)
- SaaS 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (40%)
Country
- United States 3 (60%)
- Sweden 1 (20%)
- United Kingdom 1 (20%)
Investments
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SuperPlane
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SuperPlane is an AI-first platform engineering and DevOps control plane that helps teams automate, orchestrate, and manage complex operational workflows across development, deployment, infrastructure, monitoring, and incident-response tools | $2.6M / Pre-Seed / Jun 24, 2026 | |
Ostrio Systems
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Network & web tools as a Service: Ostrio Systems builds infrastructure layer services and tools. Our primary focus is on CDN with SEO/AEO optimized edge servers, that are tailored to search engines, web crawlers, AI agents, and LLM scrapers. | $50K / Seed / Jan 19, 2026 | |
Digger
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AWS made simple for startups. Just connect your code repositories, digger does the rest. Digger transparently and seamlessly manages your AWS account through infrastructure-as-code: You don’t need to worry about DevOps — or hire specialists — but you still retain full control. | $3.6M / Seed / Jun 17, 2025 | |
Dwh.dev
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Next-Gen Data Lineage for Snowflake | Pre-Seed / Aug 15, 2023 | |
DBtune
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Most databases are shipped with very conservative default settings across a host of parameters to ensure that they can function properly for a wide variety of applications. However, once a database has been installed and applied to a particular application, there is plenty of room to tune these parameters in a way that improves your particulardatabase performance. | $2.7M / Seed / Jul 25, 2023 |
Co-Investors
About Percona
Percona Contacts
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Peter Zaitsev
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Stephen Hoffman
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What does Peter Zaitsev invest in?
Peter Zaitsev invests primarily in Database, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Peter Zaitsev's check size?
Peter Zaitsev typically joins rounds of $50k–$3.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Peter Zaitsev participates in.
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When did Peter Zaitsev last invest?
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