Peter Fenton is a General Partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm where he has served as the longest-standing. See sector focus and contact routes.
Peter Fenton is a General Partner at Benchmark, a venture capital firm where he has served as the longest-standing full-time partner since joining in 2006 after seven years at Accel Partners. He focuses on early-stage technology investments, particularly in enterprise software, open-source infrastructure, and developer tools, with a strong preference for Silicon Valley and U.S.-based companies. Benchmark typically leads seed and Series A rounds with check sizes ranging from $1 million to $10 million, and Fenton often takes a lead investor role while securing board seats. His notable portfolio includes Twitter, Yelp, Elastic, Docker, Airtable, and New Relic, with two of his companies—Hortonworks and New Relic—going public on the same day in 2014. Fenton is known for his “artisanal” approach to venture investing, emphasizing deep founder alignment and long-term partnership rather than transactional deals. He has written occasionally on TechCrunch and shares insights through fireside chats, highlighting lessons from his investments in Twitter, Yelp, and Zendesk.
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