Andrew Bartusiak

Andrew Bartusiak is a Senior Associate at PeakSpan Capital, a growth-stage venture capital firm focused exclusively on B2B software. A Pittsburgh native, he first joined PeakSpan as an intern in 2017 and 2018 before coming on full-time in 2019. In his role he sources, evaluates, and supports mid-market software companies, concentrating on customer experience management, go-to-market technology, HR tech, infrastructure/next-gen security, and supply chain management.

He earned a B.S. in Finance with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. At CMU he played varsity football for four years and was elected team captain in his senior year, and he ran the campus venture capital club, Scottie Ventures. Prior to PeakSpan, he interned at UPMC Health Plan, where he sourced and evaluated enterprise software opportunities for the Product Administration team.

At PeakSpan, Andrew has worked closely with portfolio companies, serving as a board observer at several of the firm's investments. He operates out of the firm's New York City office. PeakSpan itself manages roughly $2.5 billion across its funds (its third growth fund closed at $567 million), with a team split between New York and San Mateo, California, and a track record of 50+ software investments and 19 full and partial exits.

• Invests through PeakSpan's mandate as a "scale-up partner of choice" for bootstrapped or lightly-capitalized B2B software companies looking to grow from ~$3–5M ARR to $30M+ ARR.
• Targets companies with clear product-market fit, strong customer satisfaction/retention, ~75%+ year-over-year growth, and typically less than ~$20M raised to date.
• Initial checks generally fall in the ~$7M–$15M range, with the firm leading rounds and reserving substantial follow-on capital ($25M–$100M+ over the relationship).
• The firm emphasizes "value protection, risk mitigation, and disciplined, iterative company-building," touting an industry-leading low scale-up failure rate — meaning it favors capital-efficient, fundamentally sound businesses over high-burn moonshots.
• Andrew's personal sector lens spans customer experience management, go-to-market/marketing tech, HR/human capital management, infrastructure software, cybersecurity, digital health, and supply chain management.