Carl Ledbetter

Active Investor

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer & Chairman

St. Louis, Missouri

Carl Ledbetter, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer & Chairman is an active investor based in St. Louis, Missouri. This profile covers what Carl Ledbetter backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Carl Ledbetter is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer & Chairman at SimpleRose. He serves as a Board Member at Misapplied Sciences. He also serves as a Board member at Monarx. He served as a Board Member at Rubicon Labs. He also served as a Special Partner at Pelion Venture Partners. He served as a Board Member of Bitcasa, SOASTA, Conviva, and Cloudflare. He was a Board Member of Venafi and Drivescale. He has served on the board of nine Pelion portfolio companies. Previously, he served on the boards of three public and eight other private companies. Before joining Pelion, he was a senior executive in the engineering of operations at Novell, Control Data Corporation, ETA Systems, Hybrid Networks, Prime Computing, Sun Microsystems, and IBM. Also, he was President of AT&T's Consumer Products Division. He previously also served as a Board Member at Formation Data Systems. He was a dean and a professor of mathematics at universities on both coasts. He was Chairman of the Governor's Task Force on the Computer Industry of Minnesota under the administrations of two governors; he was a member of the board of directors of the Wireless Industry Association and completed a term as a member of the Technology Advisory Committee to the Joint House-Senate Committee on Science and Technology. For five years, he was a member of the board of directors of the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association and served as Treasurer of that organization. As the holder of six patents in computing and telecommunications and the former CEO of a venture-backed startup himself, he has firsthand knowledge of what it's like to run a young company in the technology sector. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Clark University, his Master's degree in mathematics from Brandeis University, and a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Redlands.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Invests in: SaaS & Enterprise
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Typical check: $3.8M
Past investments: 3

Notable investments

Pelion Venture PartnersSimpleRoseClockwork Systems

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Carl Ledbetter invests in SaaS & Enterprise, typically at Early Stage Venture and Late Stage Venture. Match your sector and stage, then reach out with a personalized pitch.