Summary
Peregrine Badger is a founder coach and operator with 13 years of experience helping deep tech and AI startups scale, backed by investors like Sequoia, First Round, and Fifty Years. He combines hands-on product and engineering experience—from building security robots and control systems at Cobalt Robotics to founding a hardware-enabled coliving startup—with investor-side deal-sourcing and accelerator coaching. Based in San Francisco, he helps founders identify and heal root causes of team and product challenges, not just tactical fixes. His background spans hardware, firmware, software, fundraising, IP strategy, and customer operations, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on commercialization. He also built internal AI tools and ran a podcast on startup velocity while partnering with audacious teams tackling important problems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
College Computer Science, College Computer Science at Harvard University