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Peter Fenton

General Partner at Benchmark

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Peter Fenton is a General Partner at Benchmark in Palo Alto, California, with a notable track record of serving on the boards of successful companies like Sierra, Ollama, and Airtable. He has made significant investments in companies such as Docker, Cockroach Labs, and Airtable, demonstrating a keen eye for successful ventures in sectors like BioTech and Consumer Internet. Peter Fenton's role as a General Partner at Benchmark involves strategic investments in companies at various stages, including Series A and Seed, and his board memberships at companies like Cockroach Labs and Airtable showcase his ability to support and guide successful startups through their growth and development.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2023 - Current

Sierra is an AI startup that tackles essential business challenges by leveraging Enterprise AI solutions.

Raised $285,000,000.00 from Thrive Capital, ICONIQ Capital, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Conviction Partners.

  • Board Member

    2022

  • General Partner

    2006

Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

  • Board Member

    2018

Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.

Raised $1,352,600,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, Silver Lake, D1 Capital Partners, Franklin Templeton, T. Rowe Price, Friends & Family Capital, XN, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark and ICONIQ Growth.

  • Board Member

    2021

ClickHouse is a developer of an online analytical processing (OLAP) database management system.

Raised $300,000,000.00 from Thrive Capital, Redpoint, Altimeter Capital, Coatue, FirstMark, Index Ventures, Almaz Capital, Lead Edge Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Benchmark.

  • Board Member

    2015

Cockroach Labs is a software company that develops a cloud-native SQL database for modern cloud applications.

Raised $633,100,000.00 from Index Ventures, Coatue, Bond, Altimeter Capital, FirstMark, Greenoaks, Google Ventures, K5 Global, Lone Pine Capital and JP Morgan Chase.

  • Board Member

    2011

Docker’s platform helps millions of developers efficiently and collaboratively build, share, and run applications.

Raised $435,855,439.00 from Citi Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, Benchmark, Vertex Ventures US, Four Rivers Group, Insight Partners, TeleSoft Partners, Vertex Ventures, FJ Labs and Bain Capital Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2020

  • Board Member

    2019

  • Board Member

    2019

Sema4.ai's mission is to define the future of knowledge work by creating intelligent agents that alter how humans engage with AI.

Raised $30,500,000.00 from Canvas Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Benchmark.

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