Antimatter: Pioneering Data Control as an Infrastructure Service | NEA
Talks about data security, data privacy and cloud migration
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Peter Sonsini
Venture Advisor at New Enterprise Associates
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Peter Sonsini is a Venture Advisor at NEA, with a background as a General Partner and Head of Software Investing. He has invested in a variety of successful companies across different stages and sectors, such as Databricks and Instabase, and has held strategic roles at major tech companies like VMware and Hewlett-Packard.
Sonsini's career highlights include his leadership in software investing at NEA and his successful investments in companies like Databricks and Instabase, showcasing his expertise in identifying and nurturing high-potential tech startups.
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).
New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in technology and healthcare startups.
Board Member
2023
Perplexity is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.
Raised $165,000,000.00 from IVP, Wayra and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Board Member
2014
Databricks is an AI cloud data platform that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Raised $3,997,000,000.00 from Firestreak Ventures and Bossa Invest.
Board Member
2016
Instabase is a platform for businesses to build customizable apps for automating different parts of their business.
Raised $192,009,452.00 from Bossa Invest.
Board Member
2020
Anyscale accelerates the development and productionization of any AI app, on any cloud, at any scale.
Raised $259,000,000.00 from Sancus Ventures, Addition, Foundation Capital, Intel Capital, Addition, Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz and Intel Capital.
Board Member
2005
Conviva is the leading global streaming analytics platform.
Raised $110,000,000.00 from Warner Media, Foundation Capital, Future Fund and New Enterprise Associates.
Board Member
2016
Matroid provides a studio to create, combine, and use computer vision detectors, without programming.
Raised $33,500,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, Intel Capital and Energize Capital.
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.
VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.
Director of Product Management
1998 - 2001
WW Product Marketing Manager
1996 - 1998
Managed mid-range Intel-based server product line.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
Anyscale: How a shared history led us to the future of scaled applications | NEA
Talks about Anyscale, distributed computing and Ray platform
Granica: Catalyzing AI Efficiency in the Concurrent Eras of AI and Efficient Growth | NEA
Talks about AI efficiency, data inefficiency and cloud storage
Matroid: Bringing the Future Into Focus with Computer Vision | NEA
Talks about Matroid, computer vision and artificial intelligence