Peter Lenke has succeeded Matt Sonefeldt as head of the enterprise software provider's corporate venture unit following more than six years running CVC and M&A activity at Twitter.
Enterprise software producer Atlassian has appointed Peter Lenke head of strategic investment arm Atlassian Ventures, he revealed yesterday.
Lenke comes to the unit after more than six years overseeing venture capital and M&A deals at Twitter as director of corporate development and strategy. He had spent over two years as an associate at Silicon Valley Bank’s VC fund, SVB Capital, earlier in his career.
Atlassian Ventures was launched in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2020 with a $50m fund and a brief to invest in enterprise collaboration tools that could be integrated with its parent company’s workflow collaboration platform and featured in its app marketplace.
Lenke succeeds Matt Sonefeldt, who was formally made head of Atlassian Ventures in early 2022, by which time the unit…
