blk shp ventures was founded by a group creative innovators across technology and finance, fueled by the desire to make a positive impact in the world. We are highly collaborative and believe that when you build a dream team of dream teams around a company, you can invent or transform an industry.

We focus on growth equity investments of between $5-$50M.

Our Team

PETER SIMS
CEO

Peter Sims is the Founder of BLK SHP, Inc., was the co-founder of Summit Partners’ European Office in London, and was a senior advisor at Google[x].

J. TAYLOR CRANDALL
CHAIRMAN

J. Taylor Crandall is the Chairman Emeritus and a founding member of Oak Hill Capital. In addition to being an active investor, he is on the board of Stanford Children’s Hospital and numerous other for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

ED CATMULL
OPERATING PARTNER

Ed Catmull is the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the former President of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, the 2019 Turing Award winner, and was at senior advisor at Google[x].

CARL BASS
OPERATING PARTNER

Carl Bass is the former CEO of Autodesk, where he grew the company’s market value by roughly 10x during his tenure. Prior to Autodesk,he was a serial entrepreneur. Carl has served on the boards of Planet, Built Robotics, HP, and Box, and was a senior advisor at Google[x].

AMRIT SAXENA
VENTURE PARTNER

Amrit Saxena is the Founder & CEO of SaxeCap. Amrit successfully founded & sold two AI companies (Fancy That to Palantir, Stella to PE funds). Amrit is also an active angel investor in data, AI, and enterprise software companies in the Silicon Valley. Amrit received his B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering, both from Stanford University with Distinction.

Core Principles

Do Well by Doing Good

We will do well by doing good, as we make the world more human, and do right by mother earth. 

Success & Scale

We measure our near-term success through the number of people who recognize and pay for the solutions we help scale as well as their impact on sustainability.

Impact

Our long term impact will be enjoyed by our investors and witnessed through the eyes of the generations who follow us. 

Innovations at Scale

Our Approach – Value Creation Plans (VCPs)

New Renaissance

blk shp ventures allocates a large portion of its profits to the BLK SHP Foundation which supports artists, entrepreneurs, makers, inventors, social entrepreneurs and writers at the forefront of a New Renaissance of creativity in America and around the world.