Peter Fenton

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Peter Fenton

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Technology | Internet | Venture Capital

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General Partner: Benchmark Capital

Peter Fenton is a member of the Board of Directors of SpringSource. Peter joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners, where his investment interests included software, digital media, and technology enabled services.Prior to joining the venture capital community, he spent several years working with Silicon Valley software and high-technology companies as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant. He was an early employee at Virage, a multimedia information retrieval company that went public on the NASDAQ in 2000. Peter also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where he advised high-technology businesses in Silicon Valley on their product and business strategies.Current Investments: FriendFeed, Hyperic (acquired by SpringSource), Lithium, New Relic, Pentaho, Polyvore, SpringSource, Terracotta, Yelp, and Zuora.Previous Investments: Coremetrics, JBoss (acquired by RedHat), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco), Wily Technology (acquired by CA), Xensource (acquired by Citrix), and Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!).Education: MBA from Stanford Business School, Arjay Miller Scholar; BA from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa.

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3/19/10:

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One of Yahoo's key chief technologists, Sam Pullara, is leaving the company to become an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital. Pullara was the technologist how headed up the development of the the Yahoo! Open Application Platform, the Yahoo! Query Language and Yahoo! Pipes. His departure ... - read more at TechCrunch

tags: Yahoo Accel Ash Patel Benchmark Capital Facebook

3/8/10:

DEMO Spring 2010: spotlight on cloud tech

DEMO Spring 2010 is the premier launchpad event for innovative technology, and will take place March 21-23 at the JW Marriott in Palm Desert. As the event grows closer, we'll unveil information about the key themes and panelists featured in each of the seven DEMO Tech Segments. Each vertical launch ... - read more at VentureBeat

tags: Benchmark Capital Capital Redpoint Ventures

3/4/10:

Panel: Social commerce has arrived

The experts gathered Thursday morning to answer retailers' burning questions about VCs and retail technology investments. What's the most disruptive technology to look out for? Is mobile really here already? How will Facebook affect e-commerce? Which companies have tapped customers' current needs the ... - read more at Retail's BIG Blog

tags: Google Wal-Mart Accel Partners Benchmark Capital Facebook Matrix Partners Twitter Gilt Groupe Bazaarvoice Groupon Polyvore Theresia Gouw Ranzetta

2/26/10:

DEMO: See the big trends (and speakers Dharmaraj, Fenton, Wong ...

We're shaking things up a bit at the upcoming DEMO conference in Palm Springs, Calif., on March 22-23. The consumer Internet remains exciting, but we're seeing more action around the edges of the Internet going forward. The incoming class of demonstrators next month will show, for example, that there's ... - read more at V entureBeat

tags: Wong Dharmaraj Comcast Plaxo VMware Google Chi-Hua Chien MSFT AdECN Morgan Stanley NASDAQ Openwave Systems Yahoo Zimbra Accel Partners Bain & Company Benchmark Capital Coremetrics Facebook Kleiner Perkins Springsource Virage capital Twitter technology Redpoint Ventures BitTorrent Friendfeed AdMob

2/25/10:

DEMO Spring 2010 - Select Speakers Announced

DEMO, one of the best emerging technology conference, will be held march 21-23 in Palm Desert, where over 60 companies will launch their innovative technology product. Throughout the 2 ½ day conference, they will present their new products on stage, during a 6 minute demo, in front of an audience ... - read more at Ubergizmo

tags: Richard Wong Accel Benchmark Capital Redpoint Ventures AdMob Satish Dharmaraj

2/22/10:

Former Google Exec Singh Cassidy Becomes CEO of Fashion Start-up ...

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (pictured here), former president of Google's Asia-Pacific and Latin American operations, has taken CEO job at an unusual fashion and shopping social network called Polyvore. The registered site allows users to “mix & match products from your favorite stores” ... - read more at All Things Digital

tags: Google Polyvore Amazon (AMZN) Accel Partners Benchmark Capital Facebook Matrix Partners OpenTV (OPTV) Twitter Yodlee Glam Media Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Pasha Sadri

8/17/09:

Zendesk CEO Says Company Had Multiple VC Suitors

Zendesk CEO Mikkel Svane says he had five term sheets and countless VCs interested in funding his company, which makes a Web-based help desk service that cuts the cost of customer support. He ultimately chose Benchmark Capital, which led a $6 million Series B round with return backer Charles River Ventures. ... - read more at Private Equity Hub

tags: Benchmark Capital Charles River Ventures

8/14/09:

Ex-Googler Singh Cassidy??s Decision To Dress Up J. Crew

Source: Wall Street Journal VC. The sale of SpringSource Global Inc. to VMWare Inc. for $420 million will deliver venture capitalist Peter Fenton his fourth big victory in the open-source space. Peter - read more at Congoo - Clothing

tags: VMWare Inc. Wall Street Journal SpringSource

8/13/09:

Benchmark took almost all equity with FriendFeed sale to Facebook

Benchmark Capital, FriendFeed's sole venture capital backer, took “almost all equity” in proceeds from the startup's sale to Facebook on Monday, according to the firm's lead partner on the deal. Facebook bought social sharing startup FriendFeed on Monday for $47.5 million, with $15 million ... - read more at The Industry Standard

tags: Benchmark FriendFeed VMWare Wall Street Journal SpringSource Paul Buchheit Sanjeev Singh

8/12/09:

Investor reveals secret to $1.6 billion in open-source success

Benchmark Capital's Peter Fenton has cracked the code on open-source venture investing, a code he's willing to share but which many will find hard to duplicate. - read more at CNET

tags: Benchmark Capital

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