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Peter Fenton

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Peter Fenton is a General Partner at Benchmark. He joined the firm in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners, where his investment interests included software, digital media, and technology enabled services.

Prior to joining the venture capital community, he spent several years working with Silicon Valley software and high-technology companies as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant. He was an early employee at Virage, a multimedia information retrieval company that went public on the NASDAQ in 2000. Peter also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where he advised high-technology businesses in Silicon Valley on their product and business strategies.

Peter currently serves on the board of DotCloud, Elasticsearch, EngineYard, HortonWorks, Lithium, Minted, New Relic, Pentaho, Polyvore, Twitter, Yelp (IPO: YELP), Zendesk and Zuora.

Previously, Peter served on the boards of Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), FriendFeed (acquired by Facebook), JBoss (acquired by RedHat), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco), SpringSource (acquired by VMWare), Terracotta (acquired by Software AG), Wily Technology (acquired by CA), Xensource (acquired by Citrix), and Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!).

Recent Milestones

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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Elasticsearch. (11/8/12)
  Posted 11/8/12 at 11:09am
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Zendesk. (7/1/09)
  Posted 2/2/11 at 2:51pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Twitter. (1/1/09)
  Posted 8/13/09 at 7:06pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Lithium Technologies. (9/1/08)
  Posted 5/4/10 at 10:33am
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at New Relic. (6/1/08)
  Posted 12/22/10 at 8:58am
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Polyvore. (3/1/08)
  Posted 9/19/10 at 11:30pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Engine Yard. (9/1/07)
  Posted 2/2/11 at 2:51pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Zuora. (9/1/07)
  Posted 2/2/11 at 2:51pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at SpringSource. (9/1/06)
  Posted 8/10/09 at 1:54pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Yelp. (7/1/06)
  Posted 4/2/09 at 12:07pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Hortonworks.
  Posted 8/29/12 at 12:43pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Pentaho.
  Posted 8/29/12 at 12:43pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at FriendFeed.
  Posted 2/2/11 at 2:51pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Minted.
  Posted 8/29/12 at 12:43pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Coremetrics.
  Posted 8/29/12 at 12:43pm
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  Peter Fenton added a position as Member, Board of Directors at JBoss.
  Posted 8/29/12 at 12:43pm

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