About Richmond Global
Mission
We’re investors and operators with notable successes and epic failures, our learnings over time a powerful heuristic we share at every opportunity:
- Does the entrepreneur vision greatly, risk pragmatically, and execute resourcefully?
- Is curiosity their compass, authenticity their mainsail, and resiliency their keel?
- Is integrity their ballast?
Check all seven and it’s likely you’ve met a champion who will pay it forward in multiples.
Purpose
Richmond Global was established by Peter Kellner nearly thirty years ago. The firm seeks entrepreneurs building disruptive technologies that benefit from strong network effects, and especially those anticipating the next wave of innovation. In the U.S., we target early and growth-stage opportunities that we can scale globally. In emerging markets, our decades of experience are the foundation of long-lasting and deep relationships with the most notable entrepreneurs, operators, and investors. This geographically diversified reach benefits from the best ideas and most innovative companies and allows the firm to achieve strong returns throughout cycles. Richmond’s network is enhanced by Endeavor Global, co-founded by Kellner, an economic development NGO in forty-five countries that identifies highest-impact entrepreneurs.
About Peter Kellner
Peter Kellner founded and is CEO of Richmond Global LLC, a holding company composed of alternative investments. Day to day, he is a venture capitalist whose early investments resulted in seven unicorns at the time of his exit: aQuantive (first check), CAIS (first check), Compass (among first checks), Dataminr, Rubicon (first check), Salesforce, and Toast.
He has invested in and lived on five continents over twenty-five years, building some of the largest platform technology companies from Brazil to China. After university, as a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary, he co-founded the Environmental Management & Law Association (EMLA), one of Central Europe’s oldest and influential NGOs in environmental law and policy, and originally backed by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
In 1996, Mr. Kellner co-founded Endeavor Global. Endeavor’s mission is to build ecosystems of entrepreneurship throughout the forty-five-country network where the organization is operating. He served on the boards of Endeavor Chile, Endeavor Global, Endeavor Jordan, Endeavor Miami, and Endeavor Midwest.
He is a Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Pacific Council on International Affairs, and International Institute for Strategic Studies. Mr. Kellner is a member of the Yale Law School Fund Board and Trustee of America Media|The Jesuit Review, where he co-chairs the investment committee.
Mr. Kellner received his AB from Princeton with a concentration in the School of Public & International Affairs (SPIA). He funded the E-Lab for student entrepreneurship, and together with three members of the Classes of 1961 and 1963 endowed the James Wei Visiting Professorship, a key element of Princeton’s design thinking and entrepreneurship education.
Mr. Kellner received his MBA from Harvard Business School, where his companies and organization are the subject of seven case studies. Four span Endeavor’s early years to its 20th anniversary, and three cover Athleta, Rubicon Global, and Chia Network.
Mr. Kellner received his JD from Yale Law School, where he established the George and Martha Kellner Fund for Entrepreneurial Excellence, to memorialize his parents and support Dean Heather Gerken’s pioneering entrepreneurship curriculum. In 2024, the Board of Trustees of Yale University elected Mr. Kellner a Sterling Fellow.
Mr. Kellner lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with his wife and children.