# Peter Fenton

> Peter Fenton is a Series A investor at Benchmark (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 90 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 90
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-fenton-0b117/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/peterfenton
- Website: http://www.benchmark.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peter-Fenton/152795538124313

Peter Fenton is a Series A investor at Benchmark in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Peter Fenton is based out of San Francisco, California and is the General Partner of Benchmark. Peter previously worked at Accel Partners as a Partner. Peter Fenton attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business School. Peter Fenton has been received the award for VC of the Year at the Crunchies.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 22% |
| SaaS | 10 | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 8% |
| Open Source | 6 | 7% |
| Mobile | 5 | 6% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 23 | 26% |
| Series B | 21 | 23% |
| Series C | 15 | 17% |
| Series D | 7 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 31% |
| France | 2 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ollama | Ollama is a software firm that develops local inference platform designed to run large language models. | $65M | Series B | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| Sierra | Sierra is an AI startup that tackles essential business challenges by leveraging Enterprise AI solutions. The company aims to integrate practical AI solutions into established business workflows seamlessly. Its conversational AI agents help companies streamline interactions, resolve issues efficiently, and deliver personalized support. | $950M | Series E | May 04, 2026 |  |
| Exa | Exa is an AI research center that is reinventing the quest for AI. | $85M | Series B | Sep 03, 2025 |  |
| ClickHouse | ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system that focuses on real-time analytical reporting. It enables users to execute complex SQL queries efficiently, making it suitable for applications that require fast data processing and analysis. The system is particularly effective for big data environments, allowingorganizations to manage and analyze large volumes of information seamlessly. ClickHouse supports various data ingestion methods and offers features that facilitate data warehousing and observability. Its architecture is designed to optimize performance and scalability, catering to the needs of sales teams and data analysts seeking actionable insights from their data. | $350M | Series C | May 29, 2025 |  |
| Sierra | Sierra is an AI startup that tackles essential business challenges by leveraging Enterprise AI solutions. The company aims to integrate practical AI solutions into established business workflows seamlessly. Its conversational AI agents help companies streamline interactions, resolve issues efficiently, and deliver personalized support. | $110M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| Sema4.ai | Sema4.ai's mission is to define the future of knowledge work by creating intelligent agents that alter how knowledge workers interact with AI. | $30.5M |  | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| Sema4.ai | Sema4.ai's mission is to define the future of knowledge work by creating intelligent agents that alter how knowledge workers interact with AI. | $30.5M | Series A | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| Product Science | Product Science increases product metrics for mobile applications and helps apps work faster by providing insights into key performance issues that impact user experience. It analyzes the code and actual runtime data to pinpoint performance issues. Its AI enables them to do it more efficiently by providing unique insights for data visualizations tohelp mobile developers identify the problem right away. The company's integrated development environment tools and plugins display video recordings of apps alongside performance traces, providing insights into what's going on behind the screen.Product Science was founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $18M | Seed | Jan 04, 2023 |  |
| Fellow | Fellow specializes in product design and brings ideas from sketchbook to a kitchen table. It offers Duo Coffee Steeper, its first line of products that helps to get the most out of each and every coffee bean. | $30M | Series B | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| Docker | Docker develops an open platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications. Its platform allows developers and system administrators to create and run applications as a collection of containers that work across laptops, data center virtual machines, and public cloud instances. Docker also offers an application run-time andpackaging tool and a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows.Starting in 2008, dotCloud became Docker in October 2013, with its headquarters in San Francisco, California. | $105M | Series C | Mar 31, 2022 |  |

10 of 90 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 17 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Tenaya Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tenaya-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Coatue](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coatue) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [FirstMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmark-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

## About Benchmark

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California.The firm has been recognized for itscommitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

5 contacts available at Benchmark.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Dunlevie | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-dunlevie |
| Chetan Puttagunta | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chetan-puttagunta |
| Peter Fenton | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-fenton |
| Alex Balkanski | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-balkanski |
| Ben Rubin | Entrepreneur In Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-rubin |

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## FAQ

### What does Peter Fenton invest in?

Peter Fenton invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 90 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Peter Fenton last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Peter Fenton closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 90 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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