Peter Barrett — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder and General Partner at Playground Global since 2015, a venture fund and design studio providing resources, mentorship, and funding to startups making hardware devices.
Co-founder of Rocket Science Games, a video game development company that helped pioneer CD-ROMs as a video game distribution method.
Created the first widely used video codec in the early 90s.
Built the world’s most popular IPTV platform at Microsoft.
Holds over 100 patents.
Serves as a Board Member for NextSilicon (since 2019), Anjuna Security (since 2018), Artificial, Inc. (since 2018), and NVision Imaging Technologies (since 2017).

Biography

Peter Barrett is an Australian entrepreneur and the Founder and General Partner at Playground Global, a venture fund and design studio he co-founded in 2015. At Playground Global, he focuses on deeply collaborating with entrepreneurs to create transformative companies, particularly those addressing the toughest challenges at the boundaries of deep tech and hard science.