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Peter Fenton
Director/Board Member at
The California Academy of Sciences
Profile
Peter H.
Fenton is currently Director at Engine Yard, Inc., Digits LLC, San Francisco Opera Association, Optimizely, Inc., Docker, Inc., Buoyant, Inc., Cockroach Labs, Inc., Timescale, Inc., and Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC.
He is General Partner at Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC, Trustee at The California Academy of Sciences, and Managing Member at Benchmark Capital Management Co. VI LLC.
Former roles include Chairman at New Relic, Inc. (2008–2020), Independent Director at Yelp, Inc. (2006–2019), Independent Director at Zuora, Inc. (2007–2021), Independent Director at X Corp.
(United States) (2013–2017), Independent Director at Cloudera, Inc. (2019–2021), Independent Director at Zendesk, Inc. (2014–2017), Independent Director at Hortonworks, Inc. (2011–2019), Portfolio Manager at Accel Partners LLC (1999–2006), and General Manager-Video at Autonomy Virage, Inc. (1996–1998).
Other former directorships include Wily Technology, Inc., Zimbra, Inc., Mendocino Software, Inc., Terracotta, Inc., Reactivity, Inc., XenSource, Inc., Pentaho Corp., Hyperic, Inc., Khoros LLC, SpringSource Global, Inc., Revinate LLC, Coremetrics, Inc., Apexon, Inc., JBoss, Inc., FriendFeed, Inc., Polyvore, Inc., Elastic NV, and Elasticsearch, Inc. Education includes an undergraduate degree from Stanford University (1994), an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business (2000), and an MBA from Stanford University.
Peter Fenton active positions
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Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC
 Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Benchmark Capital invests in companies located in the United States. The firm focuses on consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure and enterprise software. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements. | Private Equity Investor | 01/04/2006 |
Engine Yard, Inc.
 Engine Yard, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides cloud orchestration platform | Director/Board Member | - |
Docker, Inc.
 Docker, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Operates as an container application development company | Director/Board Member | 01/04/2011 |
The California Academy of Sciences
 The California Academy of Sciences Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Operates as a scientific and cultural institution | Director/Board Member | 01/04/2013 |
San Francisco Opera Association
 San Francisco Opera Association Movies/EntertainmentConsumer Services Owns and operates an opera theater | Director/Board Member | 01/08/2013 |
Benchmark Capital Management Co. VI LLC | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Optimizely, Inc.
 Optimizely, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops AI software platform for content management & marketing | Director/Board Member | 01/04/2013 |
Buoyant, Inc.
 Buoyant, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides cloud and network security services | Director/Board Member | 11/07/2017 |
Cockroach Labs, Inc.
 Cockroach Labs, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Builds SQL database for cloud-native applications | Director/Board Member | 01/05/2015 |
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Training of Peter Fenton
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Connections
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1st degree connections
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Linked companies
| Private companies | 40 |
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Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC
Benchmark Capital Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Benchmark Capital invests in companies located in the United States. The firm focuses on consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure and enterprise software. It provides financing for seed and early stage capital requirements. | Finance |
Wily Technology, Inc.
 Wily Technology, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Provides IT management solutions | Technology Services |
Zimbra, Inc.
 Zimbra, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides open source collaboration and messaging software | Technology Services |
Mendocino Software, Inc.
 Mendocino Software, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops and markets recovery management solutions | Technology Services |
Terracotta, Inc.
 Terracotta, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides java based software services | Technology Services |
Reactivity, Inc.
 Reactivity, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops software for XML-based web services | Technology Services |
XenSource, Inc.
 XenSource, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides software solutions | Technology Services |
Pentaho Corp.
 Pentaho Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops business intelligence software solutions | Technology Services |
Yelp, Inc.
 Yelp, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Hosts an online database of user generated reviews of local businesses | Technology Services |
Hyperic, Inc.
 Hyperic, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides information technology management software solutions | Technology Services |
Khoros LLC
 Khoros LLC Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops enterprise software platform for digital-first customer engagement | Technology Services |
SpringSource Global, Inc.
 SpringSource Global, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides open source software for mission-critical enterprise applications | Technology Services |
Engine Yard, Inc.
Engine Yard, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides cloud orchestration platform | Technology Services |
Zuora, Inc.
 Zuora, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Operates as a quote to cash and subscription management platform | Technology Services |
Revinate LLC
 Revinate LLC Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops hospitality guest booking platform | Technology Services |
Digits LLC
 Digits LLC Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides cyber security and digital forensics services | Commercial Services |
Accel Partners LLC
 Accel Partners LLC Investment ManagersFinance Accel Partners invests in companies located in the US, the United Kingdom, Europe and Israel. The firm targets companies operating in the fields of cloud/SaaS, consumer, enterprise IT, fintech, hardware, healthcare, media, security and services. It provides financing for seed, early, later and growth stage capital requirement. | Finance |
Stanford University
 Stanford University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
Coremetrics, Inc.
 Coremetrics, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides marketing optimization solutions | Commercial Services |
Apexon, Inc.
 Apexon, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides software solutions for supply management | Technology Services |
JBoss, Inc.
 JBoss, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops software and provides IT technical supporting services | Technology Services |
San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco Opera Association Movies/EntertainmentConsumer Services Owns and operates an opera theater | Consumer Services |
The California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Operates as a scientific and cultural institution | Commercial Services |
X Corp. (United States)
 X Corp. (United States) Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Operates and develops a social networking platform that allows users to share messages and ideas | Technology Services |
Benchmark Capital Management Co. VI LLC | |
FriendFeed, Inc.
 FriendFeed, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Operates a social network information sharing site | Technology Services |
Polyvore, Inc.
 Polyvore, Inc. Catalog/Specialty DistributionRetail Trade Operates an online store for clothes and accessories | Retail Trade |
New Relic, Inc.
 New Relic, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops stack monitoring, data observation and security platform | Technology Services |
Cloudera, Inc.
 Cloudera, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops data and AI platform | Technology Services |
Zendesk, Inc.
 Zendesk, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops AI-powered software platform for personal customer, employee experiences, messaging and ticketing solutions | Technology Services |
Optimizely, Inc.
Optimizely, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops AI software platform for content management & marketing | Technology Services |
Docker, Inc.
Docker, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Operates as an container application development company | Technology Services |
Hortonworks, Inc.
 Hortonworks, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops software for apache hadoop | Technology Services |
Elastic NV
 Elastic NV Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Operates as a data analytics company | Technology Services |
Stanford Graduate School of Business
 Stanford Graduate School of Business Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
Buoyant, Inc.
Buoyant, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides cloud and network security services | Technology Services |
Cockroach Labs, Inc.
Cockroach Labs, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Builds SQL database for cloud-native applications | Technology Services |
Timescale, Inc.
 Timescale, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops PostgreSQL cloud platform that natively supports full-SQL, combining the power and reliability | Technology Services |
Autonomy Virage, Inc.
 Autonomy Virage, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides video and audio analysis technologies & content management software solutions | Technology Services |
Elasticsearch, Inc.
 Elasticsearch, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Provides software solutions for making structured and unstructured data usable in real time for search, logging, security and analytics | Technology Services |
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