Benchmark Capital is an early investor in Uber Technologies Inc., Snap Inc. and WeWork Cos.
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.
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Cockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.
Nextdoor is a company providing a private communications platform for neighborhoods.It was founded in 2011 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Snapchat, a product of Snap Inc., is a free image messaging application and augmented reality platform.
A 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.
A software company offering application programming interfaces (APIs) for managing, integrating, and delivering content to any device or service.
Benchling 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.
An nanotechnology company with focus on developing solar products. It was founded in 2002 and closed in 2013.
Asana provides a project management platform to organize and plan workflows.
Quora is a quora is a question-and-answer website founded in 2010 by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.
A cybersecurity company offering an application security platform for enterprises.
A software company that creates products for searching for information on the Internet. It was founded in 2012 and has headquarters located in Mountain View, California.
Bugsnag is an error monitoring platform for mobile, server, and browser applications based in San Francisco.
A company that has designed a marketplace for transactions related to camping and outdoor activities. It was founded in 2013
Good 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 .
Discord is a company providing voice, video and text chat application designed for gamers.
Tinder is a company founded in 2012 by Sean Rad, Justin Mateen and Jonathan Badeen.
Ambarella’s products are used in a wide variety of human and computer vision applications, including video security, advanced driver assistance (ADAS), electronic mirror, drive recorder, driver/cabin monitoring, autonomous driving, and other robotics applications.
Revinate is a San Francisco-based company founded by Jay Ashton.
Company that provides tools for Bitcoin analysis, compliance and investigation
Confluent is a company providing a streaming platform that enables enterprises to access data.
Ubiquity6 is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2017 by Anjney Midha, Ankit Kumar and Michael Abbott.
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Alok Vasudev
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Andreas Ritter
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Avi Nudler
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Chris Morton
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Chris Tsakalakis
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Daniel Finnigan
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Daniel Hoffer
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Danielle Blumberg Ullner
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David Kaneda
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Edward Kinsey
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Eric Vishria
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Erica Alvarez
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Gus Fuldner
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Jagdish Kumar
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James Winters
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Jonathan Teo
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Julio Vasconcellos
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Karl Jacob
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Kris Fredrickson
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Kristi Appleby
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Larry Blair
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Maayan Schwartz
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Maddie Chavez
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Maglio Sanchez
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Mark Evans
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