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PETER RELAN
YouWeb's Founder, Mentor and Innovator
a vision for providing entrepreneurs with long term, hands-on mentorship and funding
A child of refugees who used his bare resources to excel in Math and STEM (Indian Math Olympiad), Peter came as a solo immigrant to the United States in 1981 and graduated from UCLA with a B.S. while putting himself through college working as a Math Tutor.
During his 40 year career spanning start-ups as well as HP and Oracle, Peter has kept a finger on the pulse of technology and its societal impact, leveraging major trends to build hugely impactful technologies that improve people's quality of life. He has been covered widely in the press and media including WSJ, Forbes, Techcrunch, Venturebeat, NPR, Bloomberg TV and more.
After completing his graduate work at Stanford University in 1992, and becoming VP of Internet Products at Oracle in 1997, Peter went on to spend the next 25+ years as a serial founder in different fields of technology by supporting and co-creating with promising entrepreneurs.
He founded YouWeb Incubator in 2007 to provide select groups of founders with long-term mentorship and funding. Companies built using funding and mentorship from YouWeb include gaming companies Openfeint, Crowdstar, Sibllingz, Agawi and Pluto Media getting exits from GREE, Glu/EA, Facebook, Google, Age of Learning respectively; Ed tech and Social companies Epic! for Kids, GotIt! Inc and Discord respectively; B2B Enterprise AI company ThreatMetrix (acquired by Lexis Nexis).
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Along the way Peter has contributed to, and served on the non-profit boards of The Tech in San Jose (founded by Founders of Intel), the California Institute of Integral Studies, and on the advisory board of the Institute of Carbon Management at UCLA.
Most recently he has committed to funding, through his incubator and through his private foundation, Dharma Karma Foundation, social impact focus work in AI for STEM Education and Climate Tech.