Mr Peter Sonsini

KANDO id: 7968

Bio

Pete joined NEA in 2005 and is the head of the firm’s Enterprise practice group. Some of his current investments include Apprenda, Conviva, Databricks, MapR Technologies, Nginx, Pluribus and Tintri. Past exits include Pentaho (acquired by Hitachi), Teracent (acquired by Google) and Xensource (acquired by Citrix Systems). Prior to NEA, Pete was Senior Director of Strategic Alliances at VMware where he struck the company's initial OEM deals and grew annual sales through OEMs from $0 to $40 million 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.


Career


New Enterprise Associates Inc

Global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies.
Focus areas: Technology, Software & Services, Systems.
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