Education
Stanford University.
Stanford University.
He is a general partner at, a venture capital firm. Fenton has steadily worked his way up the Forbes Midas List of the 100 top technology investors, starting at northern 94 in 2007, then rising to northern
62 in 2008 and northern
50 in 2009. Fenton was ranked northern 4 when Forbes resumed publishing its Midas List in 2011 and was described as the “most productive venture capitalist on our list.” In 2012, Fenton was ranked northern
5 on the Forbes Midas List and was northern 2 in 2015.
He was also an early employee at Virage before joining in 2006.
Fenton"s investing style has been summarized as, “Wait until right before the company’s rising ‘adoption curve’ meets the declining ‘risk curve.’”
Fenton serves on the board of Twitter and backed Twitter when it had only 25 employees.
He invested early in Yelp in 2006 and sits on its board.