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Peter Sonsini

Venture Advisor at New Enterprise Associates

Menlo Park, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Venture Advisor

    2023 - Current

  • General Partner, Head of Software Investing

    2005 - 2023

    Venture investor focused on enterprise software companies. Current investments include: Anyscale, Conviva, Databricks, Forethought, Granica, Instabase, Matroid, Perplexity. Past exits include Nginx (F5), Streamsets (SoftwareAG), StormPath (OKTA), XenSource (Citrix), Pentaho (HDS), Eucalyptus (HP), Lithium (Vista), Teracent (Google) and Upstart (UPST).

  • Board Member

    2023

  • Board Member

    2014

  • Board Member

    2016

  • Board Member

    2020

  • Board Member

    2005

  • Board Member

    2016

  • Senior Director, Strategic Alliances

    2001 - 2005

    Established OEM relationships and negotiated resale and support agreements with all major hardware vendors, worldwide. Grew sales through OEMs from $0 to $40M in four years.

  • Director of Product Management

    1998 - 2001

  • WW Product Marketing Manager

    1996 - 1998

    Managed mid-range Intel-based server product line.

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