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About Peter Fenton
- Peter Fenton is the longest-serving full-time partner at venture capital firm Benchmark with high profile exits like Elastic, Twitter and Yelp.
- The San Francisco-based VC also invested in spreadsheet database software Airtable, valued at $11.7 billion as of December 2021.
- Most recently, he invested in Sierra, which is building AI agents for businesses.
- Among his over 14 exits is the 2016 acquisition of productivity app Quip by Salesforce; the 2017 sale of social tracking app Zenly to Snap; and the 2018 IPO of subscription management software Zuora.
- Fenton had one of the most unusual days in enterprise venture capital history in December 2014 when two of his investments, Hortonworks and New Relic, went public on the same day.
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 51
- Notable Deal
- Airtable
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University
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