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Peter Sonsini
Venture Advisor at New Enterprise Associates
PS
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.
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
Nea
Antimatter: Pioneering Data Control as an Infrastructure Service | NEA
Talks about data security, data privacy and cloud migration
Nea
Anyscale: How a shared history led us to the future of scaled applications | NEA
Talks about Anyscale, distributed computing and Ray platform