Peter Fenton

Who is Peter Fenton?

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.