Peter Marcum

Active Investor

Founding Partner at Kernel Equity

Brentwood, Tennessee

Peter Marcum, Founding Partner at Kernel Equity is an active investor based in Brentwood, Tennessee. This profile covers what Peter Marcum backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Peter Marcum is a Founding Partner of OtherLeft Ventures. He also serves as a Founding Partner at Kernel Equity. He was a Co-Founder and Founding Partner and served as Chairman at DevDigital. He has spent his career building technology companies. He is a self-taught computer programmer who entered the information technology field in the early 1980s by developing and selling a public housing software package. In 1985, he started JML Computers to build LANs and WANs. In 1990, Computerland, a competitor, recognized his success. He sold JML Computers and went to Nashville, Tennessee, as the owner of Computerland of Nashville and Birmingham, which grew into a multi-million dollar company that he eventually sold. In 1995, he founded Nashville Computer Liquidators and developed it into a $100 million business, which he sold in 2000. He co-founded Essex Technology Group and helped create a large online reseller that later became the brick-and-mortar store, Bargain Hunt, with 85 retail locations throughout the southeast. A private equity firm bought the majority ownership of Bargain Hunt in November 2015. In 2003, he created WV Fiber, a national fiber network specializing in wholesale bandwidth in eighteen U.S. and five EU colocation centers, and served as its CEO. WV Fiber's customers included Charter Cable's home users in five states, Akamai, and others. He bought Usenet Server, a subsidiary of WV Fiber with 9,000 clients, building it to 35,000 online customers, and sold it in 2007. While working with WV Fiber and Usenet Server, he obtained the knowledge required to operate a large SaaS (software as a service) business. When WV Fiber was sold in 2008, its small programming arm was not included in the sale and later evolved into DevDigital, LLC.

Investor type: AngelVCPE
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Invests in: Healthcare & BiotechDigital Health & HealthTechSaaS & Enterprise
Location: Brentwood, Tennessee
Typical check: $500K

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