Peter Fenton

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General Partner @Benchmark Capital • Studied at @Stanford University

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Peter Fenton is a partner at Benchmark. He spent seven years as a partner with Accel before joining Benchmark. The list of businesses he has invested in and mentored is extensive. They include Twitter, Yelp, New Relic, Hortonworks, Quip, Zuora, Zendesk, and Polyvore - among others. He is so well spoken and careful about conveying…

General Partner at Benchmark

Peter Fenton has been a General Partner at Benchmark Capital since May 2006. Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm, where Peter's investment interests include software, digital media, and technology-enabled services.Prior to joining Benchmark, Peter was a Managing Partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm, from October 1999 to May 2006.Prior to joining the venture capital community, Peter was General Manager of Video at Autonomy Virage, Inc., a multimedia information retrieval company, from April 1996 to April 1998.

Peter Fenton (born July 1972) is an American venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley. He is a general partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm. Fenton has steadily worked his way up the Forbes Midas List of the 100 top technology investors, starting at no. 94 in 2007,[1] then rising to no. 62 in 2008[2] and no. 50 in 2009.[3] Fenton was ranked no. 4 when Forbes resumed publishing its Midas List in 2011 and was described as the "most productive venture capitalist on our list."[4] In 2012, Fenton was ranked no. 5 on the Forbes Midas List[5] and was no. 2 in 2015.[6]