Before becoming an investor, Katie Peykar co-founded Companion, a campus safety app she helped build to more than 2 million users, and later at Lead Edge Capital she sourced consumer brands Carbon38 and Knixwear, with Knix selling for $300 million in 2022. At Torch Capital, she focuses on healthcare startups like Tia, Solace Health, Sollis Health, and Little Otter, and she's known for pushing founders to use AI to stay lean, hit clear milestones before raising more money, and build profitable companies that need to give up less ownership over time.