PETE KOOMEN

Pete Koomen is a General Partner at Y Combinator based in San Francisco, California, where he focuses on seed-stage investments and founder support. Prior to joining the venture accelerator as an investor in 2021, he co-founded Optimizely, a prominent website and application experimentation platform. During his decade-long tenure as a co-founder and executive, he helped scale the enterprise software business to more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue before its acquisition by Episerver in 2020 for approximately $1 billion. Koomen holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he originally participated in Y Combinator as a founder during the Winter 2010 batch. Today, his primary investment focus centers on early-stage technology startups operating across the software-as-a-service, artificial intelligence, and growth tooling sectors.