Peter Fenton (born July 1972) is an American venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley.

Fenton has steadily worked his way up the Forbes Midas List of the 100 top technology investors, starting at no.

He began his career at Bain & Company and was also an early employee at Virage[citation needed] before joining Benchmark in 2006.

[11] The VMware acquisition occurred on the same day that Facebook acquired FriendFeed, another company in Fenton’s portfolio.

[14] In addition to Twitter and Yelp, Fenton also serves on the boards of (in alphabetical order) Cockroach Labs, Digits,[15] Docker (formerly DotCloud), Elastic, Engine Yard, Hortonworks, Lithium Technologies, New Relic, Optimizely, Revinate, Zendesk, and Zuora.