Founded in 1995, Benchmark is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in the software, communication, security, semiconductor, mobile, social, cloud computing, consumer service, financial services, internet retail, online service, infrastructure service, system software and optical device sectors.
Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies.
The firm has been committed to open source and created an equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The six equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. General partners include Matt Cohler, Peter Fenton, Bill Gurley, Mitch Lasky, Eric Vishria, and Scott Belsky. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 mergers and acquisitions representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.
Timeline
Benchmark raises a $9,000,000 series B round from DAG Ventures.
Funded Companies
Cockroach LabsCockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.
Manhattan
NextdoorNextdoor is a company providing a private communications platform for neighborhoods.It was founded in 2011 and is located in San Francisco, California.
San Francisco
ContentfulA software company offering application programming interfaces (APIs) for managing, integrating, and delivering content to any device or service.
Berlin
Germany
Europe
AirtableA company developing a cloud-based collaboration platform for professional teams to build software specific to their line of work or particular project. It was founded in 2013 and is located in San Francisco, California.
California
United States
BenchlingBenchling is a company based in San Francisco focusing on life science collaboration, both private and public, through creating cloud based software tools for digital DNA sequence editing, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and sharing research.
Asana (software)Asana provides a project management platform to organize and plan workflows.
BugsnagBugsnag is an error monitoring platform for mobile, server, and browser applications.
HackerOneA cybersecurity company offering an application security platform for enterprises.
QuoraQuora is a quora is a question-and-answer website founded in 2010 by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.
Mountain View, California
Good EggsGood Eggs is an online grocery delivery service based in the Bay Area, offering fresh local produce, weeknight meal kits, everyday staples, and wine, beer, and spirits .
DiscordDiscord is a company providing voice, video and text chat application designed for gamers.
Tinder (app)
ResearchGate
Revinate (company)Revinate is a San Francisco-based company founded by Jay Ashton.
ZuoraCompany
San Mateo, California
Ambarella Inc.Ambarella Inc. is a Santa Clara, California-based company.
Santa Clara, California
Scale ComputingCompany
Indianapolis
ChainalysisCompany that provides tools for Bitcoin analysis, compliance and investigation
New York City
InstaworkA company providing a marketplace for hospitality jobs
ConfluentConfluent is a company providing a streaming platform that enables enterprises to access data.
Palo Alto, California
Ubiquity6Ubiquity6 is a San Francisco-based company founded by Anjney Midha, Ankit Kumar and Michael Abbott.
Hipcamp
Pachyderm (company)Pachyderm is a company providing an open source analytics engine that uses Docker containers for distributed computations. It participated in the W15 cohort of Y Combinator.
Duffel (company)
Manticore GamesManticore Games is the developer and operator of CORE, a digital playground and community designed to unleash imagination and explore new play experiences.
Associated investment funds
Woodside, California
Menlo Park, CaliforniaFunding rounds
Series B round
DAG VenturesPeople
Alok Vasudev
Employee
Andreas Ritter
Investor
Avi Nudler
Employee
Chris Morton
Employee
Chris Tsakalakis
Employee
Daniel Finnigan
Employee
Daniel Hoffer
Employee
Danielle Blumberg Ullner
Employee
David Kaneda
Employee
Edward Kinsey
Investor
Eric Vishria
Employee
Erica Alvarez
Employee
Gus Fuldner
Employee
Jagdish Kumar
Employee
James Winters
Investor
Jonathan Teo
Employee
Julio Vasconcellos
Employee
Karl Jacob
Employee
Kris Fredrickson
Employee
Kristi Appleby
Employee
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
References
Benchmark (venture capital)
CompanyCompany attributes
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Bruce Dunlevie
Limited liability companyVenture Capital Firm attributes
Mitch Lasky
Bill Gurley
Matt Cohler
Eric Vishria
Peter Fenton (venture capitalist)
Sarah Tavel
Chetan Puttagunta
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