Benchmark

company

About

Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

  • 11 - 50

Details

Industries
Angel Investment,Finance,Venture Capital
Founded date
Jan 1, 1995
Number Of Employee
11 - 50
Operating Status
Active
Investor Type
Venture Capital

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California.

The firm has been recognized for its commitment to open source and is noted for creating the first 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. Current general partners are 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 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.

Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

Investments

Number of Investments
Number of Lead Investments
99
33
Benchmark has made 99 investments. Their most recent investment was on Sep 29, 2022, when Airplane raised $32M.
Date Company Name
Round Money Raised Industry Lead Investor
Sep 29, 2022 Airplane
Series B $32M Information Technology
Mar 24, 2022 Digits
Series C $65M Artificial Intelligence
Jan 27, 2022 HackerOne
Series E $49M Computer
Dec 13, 2021 Airtable
Series F $735M Collaboration
Dec 9, 2021 Airplane
Series A $8.50M Information Technology