Robert Peterson
General Partner @ Route 66 Ventures
Washington, United States
Robert Peterson is a debt financing investor at Route 66 Ventures in Washington focused on Financial Services and Solar. Rob loves his work. Not just as a job, but as a passion that rewards continuous learning and development. He brings a forward- thinking approach to maximizing the efficiency and resiliency of our portfolio companies. This method enables you – the entrepreneur – to focus on the priority: building your business.As a General Partner at Route 66,Rob manages private debt investments, including specialty finance and structured credit transactions. His thought leadership and 15 years of experience in portfolio management, including structuring, analysis, trading, and risk management of fixed income investments, help maintain a smooth, creative process.Previously, Rob headed the capital markets function of Goal Financial, a student loan originator, where he issued and restructured over $1 billion of debt securities and generated profits in excess of $100 million. He also managed a $2.5 billion portfolio of mortgage, municipal, corporate, and asset-backed investments for E*Trade Bank; and managed a $7 billion mortgage loan portfolio at Friedman Billings Ramsey. Rob began his career at KPMG as a structured finance analyst, where he honed his financial modeling expertise across a variety of mainstream and niche asset classes.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Robert Peterson invests in
Stages Robert Peterson invests in
Countries Robert Peterson invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 2 (100%)
- Solar 1 (50%)
- FinTech 1 (50%)
- Finance 1 (50%)
- Software 1 (50%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 1 (50%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (50%)
Investments
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| Sunlight Financial is a premier, technology-enabled point-of-sale finance company. Sunlight partners with contractors nationwide to provide homeowners with financing for the installation of residential solar systems and other home improvements. Sunlight’s best-in-class technology and deep credit expertise simplify and streamline consumer finance,ensuring a fast and frictionless process for both contractors and homeowners. | $130M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 23, 2017 | ||
| LQD Business Finance is a Chicago-based, technology-enabled company that provides small and medium sized businesses with structured loans. The company develops a whole-business financing solution through a single loan product that meets all the aspects of a business’ financing requirements such as acquisition, working capital, purchase orders, andrefinancing solutions. LQD Business Finance generates revenue as a percent of its clients’ loan amount. It evaluates the risk of each potential loan by using a proprietary risk management and backing software known as LQD Matrix. | $30M / Debt Financing / Nov 18, 2015 |
About Route 66 Ventures
Route 66 Ventures is a private investment firm focused on helping entrepreneurs shape the financial services landscape of tomorrow by providing Venture Capital and Credit solutions to emerging financial technology and services companies. Route 66’s Venture Capital team invests globally in early and growth stage disruptors, incumbents and service providers throughout various sectors in the financial services ecosystem. Route 66’s Credit team seeks to fund alternative lending platforms and business models with balance sheet needs by purchasing whole loans or providing secured debt facilities.
Route 66 Ventures Contacts
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Ben Britt
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Robert Peterson
General Partner
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Ryan Katz
Founder & Managing Partner
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Stuart Fox
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What does Robert Peterson invest in?
Robert Peterson invests primarily in Financial Services, Solar and FinTech startups, most often at Debt Financing and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Robert Peterson closed in Feb 2017. Shizune tracks 2 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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