ByrdSight Consulting, LLC provides startup guidance, technology consulting and investment due diligence services leveraging Pete’s 40 years in Silicon Valley as a seasoned technology executive, founder/CEO, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and product developer. Click on Experience above to visit a page of company experiences.

Pete brings hands-on experience across a breadth of technologies and products and a systems level perspective to any design or due diligence challenge. His technology and development exposure includes:

• Deep Learning hardware systems at Wave Computing (founder and CEO)
  
• Personal Computers and Tablets at Apple Computer (principal hardware architect of the Apple Newton)
• Processor architecture/design at Amdahl, UC Berkeley, Apple, Chromatic Research, nBand Communications (founder & CEO), Wave Computing (founder & CEO), and Ascenium Inc (founder & CEO)
• 2D/3D Graphics at Supermac Technology (Director of IC Technology and Graphics Products)
  
• Hands on ASIC design at Apple (chips for Mac I, Mac II, and portables)
  
• Media Processing at Chromatic Research (Director of Systems Engineering)
  
• Home Area Networking at Travertine Systems (developed while an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital)
• Broadband Wireless Software Defined Radio at nBand Communications (founder, CEO, and VP Systems Engineering)
  
• Mass Spectrometry for Cancer Biomarker detection systems at Predicant Biosciences (VP Engineering), and
• Trusted Computing (Cyber Security) at Motegrity (founder and CEO)
  

ByrdSight’s recent consulting focus has been in the area of Deep Learning and Host Processing hardware and systems for a variety of clients including hedge funds, financial management firms, management consulting firms, VCs, large companies interested in M&A and investments, and ADAS startups.

Pete has extensive investment due diligence experience across a broad range of technologies. He spent 3+ years at Tallwood Venture Capital as an Executive-in-Residence (a Venture Partner type role) where he sat in on hundreds of pitches and performed extensive due diligence tasks. His due diligence experience includes technologies and products such as:

• multi-processor multi-threaded DSP for Software Defined Radio (SDR)/baseband processing
• flexible thin-film thermoelectric technology
• high dynamic range video sensors and security cameras
• biochip for protein and DNA detection using magnetic sensing
  
• high speed Metal-Insulator-Insulator-Metal (MIIM) RF detection diodes (30-90Ghz)
  
• cellphone security processor chip
  
• direct E-beam write lithography
  
• media processor for handsets
  
• depth capable multi-lens imaging technology for cellphones and consumer cameras
• 3D Cadmium-Telluride (CdTe) solar cell technology
• non-invasive blood glucose monitoring (Raman Spectroscopy based)
• manycore embedded processor
  
• Personal Navigation Device (PND) strategic product planning
• Believable Human Motion (BHM) synthesis using a Machine Learning solution for 3D game human motion animation
• flash memory based Hard Disk Drive (HDD) controller chip
• FPGA

Pete has authored ten granted patents, (and has 20 more in flight for Ascenium Inc). As CEO he has directed company IP strategy, and has sat on a number patent review committees.

Pete brings strong mentoring and governance expertise for startups in areas such as team building, business strategy, go-to-market product determination, pitch development and delivery, and fundraising. As a startup founder and CEO Pete has raised over $70M in equity, notes, and strategic investments for multiple companies from institutional VCs, strategic and angel investors.

For a more comprehensive description of Pete’s professional experience, please follow the links on the Experience page. To view his LinkedIn profile, click the LinkedIn button on this page or the link here: PETE_FOLEY_LINKEDIN_PROFILE.

ByrdSight is located in Los Altos Hills California