Pete Kight

Pete is a senior advisor to Commerce Ventures and an active independent angel investor. He has been involved since the inception of our firm and works closely with Commerce Ventures on investments and thematic work in the payments and banking fields. Pete was the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of CheckFree Corporation, which he led from start-up in 1981 until December 2007 when it was sold to Fiserv (FISV) for $4.4 billion. At the time of sale, CheckFree was a primary global supplier of electronic banking technology and services, the largest provider of electronic billing and payments services, with revenues of $1.1 billion. Pete has served on several public and private company boards, including Akamai (AKAM), Blackbaud (BLKB), Cartera Commerce, CynergyData (Chairman), Fiserv (where he also served as Vice Chairman), Huntington Bancshares (HBAN), Kabbage and Manhattan Associates (MANH).