Summary
Peter Macrobert is a seasoned technology and healthcare entrepreneur with 11 years of experience founding and scaling product-led companies and consultancies from New York. He built Pixie Labs from a one-person shop into a boutique consultancy serving blue-chip clients, then founded Capable Health, raising $8.5M and leading a 40-person team to deliver care-delivery infrastructure used by leading hospitals. As an early engineer and later CTO at fast-growth startups like Candid, he repeatedly combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic product and commercial execution. He currently chairs Pixie Labs while founding Diligencia to modernize venture with AI and serving as interim CTO at Seed Health and advisor to Thesis, demonstrating a comfort switching between operator, builder, and boardroom roles. Notably, his career threads—spanning news media innovation, health-tech, and platform engineering—reflect a pattern of stabilizing high-visibility projects and turning prototypes into production systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, B.Sc., Electrical Engineering at University of Cape Town