Benchmark Capital
VC
1995
$13 000 M
San Francisco, California, United States
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Profile
Benchmark is an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco and Woodside investing in and working alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. We focus on early-stage venture investing in consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure and enterprise software.
Benchmark's $425 million fund is comprised of five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company we back, with no junior investment staff.
Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Airtable, Airplane, Benchling, Cerebras, Chainalysis, Cockroach Labs, Contentful, HackerOne, LangChain, MindsDB, Modern Treasury, Robocorp, Sorare and Stytch; public companies such as Asana, Amplitude, Confluent, Elastic, New Relic, Nextdoor, Stitch Fix, Snap, and Uber; and Fortune 500 companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.
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Benchmark Capital Funds
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Size | AUM | Launch date |
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Benchmark Partners 1
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Venture Capital (VC)
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Financial Services
Fintech
Gaming
Marketing and Advertising
Media and Entertainment
SaaS
Security
Software
Telecommunications
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Series B
Late Stage (Series C+)
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North America
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$5-10 m
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$425 M
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July 2024
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Benchmark Partners Founders' Fund I
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Venture Capital (VC)
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Financial Services
Fintech
Gaming
Marketing and Advertising
Media and Entertainment
SaaS
Security
Software
Telecommunications
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Pre-seed
Seed
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North America
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$5-10 m
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$170 M
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October 2024
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