Craig Cogut

Active Investor

Chief Executive Officer at Pegasus Capital Advisors

Stamford, Connecticut

Craig Cogut, Chief Executive Officer at Pegasus Capital Advisors is an active investor based in Stamford, Connecticut. This profile covers what Craig Cogut backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Craig Cogut is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors. He served as a Board Member at Noblegen. He serves as Advisor at Attero. He served as a Board Member at Healthe and as Chairman at PanTheryx. He has spent a career building successful investment businesses. He is an active philanthropist in the fields of improving education, building civil society, and championing environmental and health issues. He serves as a Board Observer at Noblegen. He serves as Chairman of The Polyphony Foundation, an organization that he co-founded to provide equal opportunity music education for Arab and Jewish Israeli youth. In addition, he serves as a board member for Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability, for The McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University, for the R-20 Regions of Climate Action, for Six Senses, a luxury hotel and resort chain focused on sustainability and wellness. He also served as Chairman of Lighting Science Group, a provider of LED lighting technology. He is an alumnus of Brown University and Harvard Law School. He serves as Senior Advisor at Producers Trust. He serves as Industry Advisor at Equatic. He founded Pegasus, a private equity fund manager which over time has focused on planet health and human health. It has become the first U.S. private equity fund manager to be accredited by the Green Climate Fund. Prior to Pegasus, Cogut was a founder and an original partner at Apollo Advisors L.P.