A 2017 Forbes Midas List honoree, Stuart Peterson is the Founder and Managing Partner of ARTIS Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm that partners with entrepreneurs driven to positively impact their world through disruptive technological innovation. ARTIS led early-stage investments in media giant YouTube and cancer-curing Stemcentrx, which in 2016 became the largest-ever venture backed life sciences acquisition.

Stuart also serves on the Board of Directors for IDbyDNA, an end-to-end and universal metagenomics platform, Versa Networks, the leading vendor in the SD-WAN and SD-Security markets, and Practice Fusion, the largest cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) platform in the U.S.

He is a Board Advisor for Fabric Genomics, a genomic interpretation platform, Cohesity, an infinitely scalable, intelligent enterprise data storage platform, Bracket Computing, a cloud workload protection platform built for the enterprise, and Excision BioTherapeutics, a gene editing company focused on curing deadly viruses like HIV.

Stuart also currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the SFMOMA.