Investing Profile

Peter Fenton

VCInvestorAngel

General Partner at Benchmark

benchmark.comPalo Alto, California

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Stanford University Network

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Accel Network

112 CONNECTIONS

Benchmark Capital Network

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Current Investing Position

Benchmark General Partner

Investment Range

$2.0M - $20.0M

Sweet Spot

$4.0M

Investments On Record

101

Current Fund Size

$425M

Peter Fenton's Investments On Record (41)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Ollama	Series BJul 2026$65M Series AJan 2023$15M	$80M
Co-investors: Tomasz Tunguz (Redpoint Ventures), Spencer Kimball, Quinn Slack
Sierra	Series EMay 2026$950M Series UnknownFeb 2024$110M	$1.1B
Co-investors: Ravi Gupta (Sequoia Capital)
Eigen	SeedApr 2026$15M	$15M
Co-investors: Zachary Sims (Bowery Capital), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Topher Conway (SV Angel), Greg Rosen (Bedrock Capital), Ben Silbermann (Pinterest), Sarah Tavel (Benchmark Capital), Peter Sellis, Charlie Songhurst, Akshay Kothari, Claire Hughes Johnson
Exa	Series BSep 2025$85M	$350M
Co-investors: Tobi Coker (Felicis Ventures), Sarah Wang (Andreessen Horowitz), Nnamdi Iregbulem (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Guru Chahal (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Luigi Bajetti (LombardStreet Ventures), Mei Z.
ClickHouse	Series CMay 2025$350M Series BOct 2021$250M Series ASep 2021$50M	$1.1B
Co-investors: Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Caryn Marooney (Coatue), Janelle Teng (Bessemer Venture Partners), Ethan Choi (Khosla Ventures), Cack Wilhelm (IVP), Matthias Turck (FirstMark Capital), Dharmesh Thakker (Battery Ventures), Vibhor Rastogi (SymphonyAI), Mike Volpi (Hanabi Capital), Kevin Wang (Altimeter Capital), Jay Simons (Bond), Christian Jensen (Dragoneer Investment Group)
Sema4.ai	Series AJan 2024$31M	$56M
Co-investors: Navin Chaddha (Mayfield Fund)
Product Science	SeedJan 2023$18M	$18M
Co-investors: Oleg Rogynskyy (Farel), Jim Armstrong (Clearstone Venture Partners), Peter Sellis
Fellow	Series BJun 2022$30M	$54M
Co-investors: Lainy Painter (Craft Ventures), Elena (Lainy) Painter (Craft Ventures), David Sacks (Craft Ventures)

Peter Fenton's Experience

General Partner Benchmark Capital2006 - Present

Managing Partner Accel1999 - 2006

GM Video Business Virage1996 - 1998

Peter Fenton's Education

Stanford Business School Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Stanford University Bachelor of Arts (BA) Philosophy

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