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Jesse Tejeda

Principal, Investments

Jesse Tejeda is a Principal at Summit Peak Investments based in San Francisco, California. He holds a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and finance from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from University of California, Santa Barbara. Jesse joins Summit Peak Investments with a demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit and over 15 years of professional finance experience across real estate, commercial lending, and investment banking.

Prior to joining Summit Peak Investments, Jesse was a Vice President at Lowe Enterprises, a private real estate investment company, where he led deal sourcing, investment underwriting, due diligence, and capital raising efforts and previously held various investment and asset management roles at institutional real estate private equity firms. Jesse is currently a Board Advisor at Interstride, an EdTech company providing international student support services to higher education institutions, including Harvard, University of Chicago, USC, ASU, UT Austin and many others.

Testimonials

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LP since 2019
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Summit Peak has been a great partner for us as our venture capital portfolio is a critical part of our endowment. Apurva and Patrick are well-networked and have identified emerging venture capital firms before others.

LP since 2019
The testimonial was provided by a private investor. The private investor was not compensated in any way and there are no other material conflicts that we are aware of.