Peter Fenton

Peter Fenton joined Benchmark in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners. Current Board Seats: Airtable, Buoyant, Cloudera (IPO: CLDR), Cockroach Labs, Digits, Docker, Elasticsearch (IPO: ESTC), New Relic (IPO: NEWR), Optimizely, Revinate, Robocorp, TimescaleDB, Wildlife Studios, and Zuora (IPO: ZUO). Previous Investments: Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), EngineYard, FriendFeed (acquired by Facebook), Hortonworks (IPO: HDP), JBoss (acquired by RedHat), Lithium, Quip (acquired by Salesforce), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco), SpringSource (acquired by VMWare), Terracotta (acquired by Software AG), Twitter (IPO: TWTR), Wily Technology (acquired by CA), Xensource (acquired by Citrix), Yelp (IPO: YELP), Zendesk (IPO: ZEN), Zenly (acquired by SNAP) and Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!). Education: MBA from Stanford Business School; BA from Stanford University. Peter has 4 children and lives in San Francisco. He is also on the boards of the San Francisco Opera and the California Academy of Sciences.