Peter Adams

Managing Partner, Rockies Venture Fund
Peter Adams, co-author of Venture Capital for Dummies, created the one-week HyperAccelerator and champions market-rate, scalable impact investing using his own, later IMP-aligned measurement frameworks while rejecting concessionary returns.
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About Peter Adams

Peter Adams co-authored "Venture Capital for Dummies" and created the HyperAccelerator, a one-week compressed accelerator model that rapidly moves founders through strategy, financing, and exit planning. He developed his own impact-measurement frameworks before adopting the Impact Management Project approach and advocates for scalable, market-rate impact investing while being explicitly skeptical of concessionary-return structures.

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  • Deeply involved in expanding angel investing education and growing the local investor community. Continually promotes training programs like the angel investing academy hosted by the Rockies Venture Club and encourages participation in national networking events to help founders and funders connect.
  • Highly focused on the Colorado and regional startup ecosystem. Frequently highlights local events like the Longmont startup week and shares news about Colorado growing as a venture capital hub, specifically pointing out local successes such as Denver based DispatchHealth achieving unicorn status.
  • Emphasizes the mechanics of pitch execution and clear exit strategies over pure narrative. Advised founders that their personal background is not the actual pitch and shared resources stressing that founders must thoroughly understand mergers and acquisitions because they need to plan their exit before they even begin building.
  • Actively backing diverse sectors with a recent interest in human resources technology and unique business models. Highlighted participation in funding rounds through the Rockies Venture Club for innovative companies, including a digital employment cooperative providing benefits to independent workers and a seed round for an HR tech product platform.

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Rockies Venture Fund

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Rockies Venture Fund operates as a platform of multiple thematic funds built on top of the long-running Rockies Venture Club angel network (active since 1985), giving it unusually deep, curated angel deal flow and institutionalized angel diligence processes that many first-time or standalone VC managers do not have. One of its funds, Rockies Seed Fund, is dedicated exclusively to pre-seed and seed companies led by Black and Latino founders with a GP team intentionally constructed to "mirror the entrepreneurs we serve," emphasizing partners from underinvested communities with deep roots in the startup ecosystem.

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