In 2006, Accel partner Peter Fenton left to join Benchmark Capital. Well played Benchmark.
In March, our VC partner social graph identified Fenton as part of a set of elite VCs with five or more Tech IPO Pipeline companies. One of those companies, Zendesk, raised $100M in its May IPO at a valuation of $631M. Today, Zendesk’s market cap is $1.77B. And this week, two companies that Fenton sits on the boards of, Hortonworks and New Relic, filed for $100M IPOs. Both have achieved $1 billion valuations in the private markets.
Fenton is also a board member of Lithium Technologies and Zuora, which have each raised over $150M and $120M, respectively. Some of Fenton’s less mature bets have already jumped in value as well. Notably, container company Docker is now valued at nearly $400M after raising $40M from Sequoia Capital in September. Fenton joined Docker’s board in 2011 after its Series A financing.
Fenton still sits on the boards of now public Twitter, Yelp and Zendesk.
A look at Fenton’s Tech IPO Pipeline boards (from March) below. Check out the full network analysis of Tech IPO Pipeline boards:
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