Damien Petty

Board Director

Mr.Petty is an operating partner at Morpheus Ventures where he focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Automation, Computational Bio and Quantum Computing.

Currently Mr. Petty is on the boards of Ten63 Therapeutics, VeriSIM Life and Vintra. Previously he has led investments into Rigetti Computing (RGTI), Vicarious (Acq. by Alphabet) and Starship Technologies; and before Morpheus, he led investments in DeepMind Technologies (Acq. by Google), Vivino, Fanduel (Acq. by Flutter), Bossa Nova Robotics and Spirosure (Acq. by CAIRE Inc.).

Prior to his role in Morpheus Ventures, Mr.Petty was part of the team representing Skype’s founders in all major transactions, including the company’s sale to eBay, private equity buyout and sale to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. Mr. Petty, was worked in corporate development at Artisan Entertainment (Acq. by Lionsgate) and was a consultant at the strategic consulting practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He has a BS in Physics from the University of Virginia and MBA from UCLA Anderson.