A venture capital firm that provides early-stage funding and support to entrepreneurs.

Benchmark

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. 

Wealthfront

WeWork

Zendesk

Zenly

Zillow

Zuora

1stdibs

Asana

X (formerly Twitter)

Nextdoor

Dropbox

eBay

Elastic

Equinix

Riot Games

Snap

Stitch Fix

Uber

Upwork

Glassdoor

Grubhub

One Medical

Optimizely

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Content Delivery Network

Amazon

nginx

AWS Global Accelerator

Java EE

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Material-UI

Operating Partner and General Counsel

An-Yen Hu

Chief Operating Officer

Andrew Miller

Owner

Dan Dawson

Jill Jarrett

Mary Williams

Retired Owner

Phil Puchner

VP of Finance

Dan Puts

Principal

Blake Robbins

Tax Director

Bob Guenley

Director

Daryn Bourbin

Chetan Puttagunta

Kevin Harvey

Founder & General Partner

Bob Kagle

Owner & General Partner

Eric Vishria

General Partner

Matt Cohler

Partner

Peter Fenton

Scott Belsky

Venture Partner

Ben Rubin

Entrepreneur In Residence

Bruce Dunlevie

Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.

Cyngn specializes in creating and implementing scalable autonomous vehicle technology tailored for industrial entities.

Optimizely is a digital experience platform for unlocking digital potential, content, commerce, and optimization.

Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.

Greenhouse is a talent acquisition software company that offers its suite of tools and services to help businesses with the hiring process.

Grubhub is an online platform that connects customers with local restaurants.

Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.

Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.

1stdibs is an internet company that offers a marketplace for rare and desirable objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry.

Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.

Early Stage Venture Investors with Investments in Great Lakes

Venture Stage Investors with Investments in New England

Venture Stage Investors with Investments in Greater New York Area

Investors Active in Midwestern US

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 five 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 Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. 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, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

Benchmark Fund

Benchmark WS SPV

Benchmark Capital Partners IX LP

Benchmark Capital Partners VIII LP

Benchmark Capital Partners VII LP

Benchmark Capital II

Benchmark Capital V

Computer and Software Products and Electrical and Scientific Products

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California

United States

North America

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India

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