Pete joined NEA in 2005 and is the head of the firm’s Enterprise practice group. His primary focus is on early-stage software investing, in many cases as the very first investor in the company. Some of his current investments include Conviva, Databricks, FabFitFun, Forethought, GuideSpark, Instabase, Lattice Engines, MapR Technologies, Matroid, Nefeli, Nginx, PlayVS, Splashtop and Yubico. Past exits include Audience (DIRECTV), Eucalyptus (HP), Lithium (Vista), Pentaho (Hitachi), PortAuthority (Websense), StormPath (OKTA), Teracent (Google), Tintri (TNTRQ), and Xensource (Citrix Systems).
Prior to NEA Pete was on Diane Greene’s executive staff at VMware where he struck the company’s initial strategic partnerships and grew annual sales through OEMs from $0-$40M in four years. Pete ran product management at Mirapoint and worked in sales and marketing at Hewlett-Packard, including Worldwide Product Manager for the mid-range server business. Pete began his career at Montgomery Securities in the Technology Corporate Finance group. He received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and his BA in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.
- What the World Needs Now: Why Instabase Will Lead the Biggest Enterprise Transformation Yet NEA Blog
- The Next Chapter in Data Analytics NEA Blog
- The Investor’s Dilemma: What Matters Most? NEA Blog
- Matroid: Bringing the Future Into Focus with Computer Vision NEA Blog
- Biz Dev Can Make (or Break) Your Startup: 10 Rules for Getting It Right NEA Blog
- Veriflow: The Next Great Startup with Cal Connections NEA Blog
- When too much private capital throws off the adoption curve NEA Blog
- Data Performance Management: Unlocking the Enterprise’s Greatest Asset NEA Blog
- Open for Business: Company Building in the Age of Open Source NEA Blog
- Databricks makes venture seem easy NEA Blog
- April 20, 2015
- March 5, 2014
- April 30, 2013
- November 26, 2012
- October 16, 2011
- June 14, 2011
- 2015 Power Player in the Cloud AlwaysOn
- 2014 Power Player in the Cloud AlwaysOn
- 2013 Power Player in the Cloud AlwaysOn
- 2013 Power Player Champions Of Entrepreneurship AlwaysOn
- 50 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech Business Insider
- The Silicon Valley Hot 100 Business Insider
- 2011 Rising Star of Venture Capital Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst
Interests
Experience
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UC Berkeley
1986–1990 UC Berkeley
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NU
1994–1995 Northwestern University
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Novell
1995 Novell
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1995–1996 Northwestern University
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HP
1996–1998 Hewlett-Packard
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Mirapoint
1998–2001 Mirapoint
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VMware
2001–2005 VMware
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NEA
2005–present NEA
Companies
- Audience
- Conviva
- Databricks
- Embrane
- Engine Yard
- Eucalyptus Systems
- Evident ID
- FabFitFun
- Forethought
- GuideSpark
- Instabase
- Lattice Engines
- Lithium Technologies
- MapR Technologies
- Matroid
- Nefeli Networks
- Nginx
- Pentaho
- PlayVS
- PortAuthority
- Silk
- Sisu
- Splashtop
- Stormpath
- StreamSets
- Teracent
- Tintri
- Veriflow
- Xensource
- Yubico