Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital 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.
Current Investments: Coremetrics,
Hyperic, Oak
Pacific Interactive, Terracotta,
Yelp, and Zimbra.
Previous Investments: JBoss
(acquired by RedHat), Mendocino
Software, Reactivity
(acquired by Cicso), Wily
Technology (acquired by CA), and Xensource.
Education: MBA from Stanford Business School, Arjay Miller Scholar; BA from
Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa.
