About Benchmark
Benchmark is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco, United States. As of Apr 2025, Benchmark is an active investor, having invested in 296 companies, with 14 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Consumer. Most recently it led the $24.5M Series A round of Reducto along with BoxGroup. This round also saw participation from First Round Capital and other investors.
Overall, Benchmark portfolio has seen 18 unicorns, 24 IPOs and 131 acquisitions including key companies like Uber, Zillow and Glassdoor. A lot of funds co-invest with Benchmark, with names like Accel sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.
Benchmark has team of 12 people including 6 partners.
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Benchmark's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Benchmark has invested in 297 companies over the last 28 years, with an average of 7 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2024, it made 13 investments, while as of Apr 2025, it has made 6 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Reducto and most recent follow-on round was in CTERA.
Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1stÌý¸é´Ç³Ü²Ô»å | Follow-on | Total | |
2025 (YTD) | 6 | 0 | 6 |
2024 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
2023 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
2022 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
2021 | 6 | 21 | 27 |
2020 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
2019 | 7 | 16 | 23 |
2018 | 9 | 9 | 18 |
2017 | 6 | 12 | 18 |
2016 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
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Benchmark's Investment Trends by Stage
Benchmark is primarily an Early Stage Investor investor majorly investing in Series A (158) rounds where average round size is $1.99B, Series B (66) rounds where average round size is $1.94B and Series C (25) rounds where average round size is $612M.Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 158 |
Series B | 66 |
Series C | 25 |
Seed | 14 |
Series E | 7 |
Others | 9 |
Benchmark's Investment Trends by Sector
Benchmark has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer, High Tech and Retail. Notably, it has invested in 257 Tech companies, 189 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 126 Software companies and at least 105 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 113 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 71 |
Consumer | 66 |
High Tech | 59 |
Retail | 28 |
Others | 257 |
Benchmark's Investment Trends by Geography
Benchmark has made most investments in United States (229), followed by Israel where it has made 16 investments.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 228 |
Israel | 16 |
United Kingdom | 8 |
Germany | 6 |
Netherlands | 3 |
Others | 22 |
Benchmark's recent investments
Here are the most recent investments by Benchmark:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 25, 2025 | United States | Series A | $24.5M | First Round Capital [+2] | |
Apr 25, 2025 | China | Series B | $75M | - | |
Mar 20, 2025 | Switzerland | Series B | $400M | Sequoia Capital [+3] | |
Mar 05, 2025 | United States | Series A | $18M | [+2] | |
Jan 27, 2025 | United States | Series B | $100M | [+3] |
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Here is a list of unicorns in Benchmark's portfolio:
ÃØÃÜÑо¿Ëù Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
49 | AI-powered platform connecting job seekers with companies | 2023 | San Francisco | Series B | qvobzrd | ||
57 | Conversational AI platform for customer service solutions | 2023 | - | Series D | urihaqj | ||
76 | AI, SaaS, and neural network-based machine translation tools | 2009 | Cologne | Series C | ex{{gif | ||
60 | Online platform offering database management solutions for analytical processing | 2012 | Mountain View | Series B | ndguwbd | ||
65 | Provider of an open source time series SQL database | 2016 | New York City | Series C | xdeumtv |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Benchmark's Portfolio
Here are Benchmark's portfolio companies that went public:
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Acquired companies in Benchmark's Portfolio
Here are Benchmark's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Team profile of Benchmark
Benchmark has a team of 12 membersÌýincluding 6 Partners and 2 PrincipalsÌýlocated in United States. Benchmark's team sits on the board of 1 company.Here is a list of top team members in Benchmark:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | San Francisco | - | ||
Partner | San Francisco | |||
Partner | San Francisco | - | ||
Partner | Redwood City | - | - | |
Partner | Redwood City | - | - | |
Partner | Redwood City | - | ||
Principal | Detroit | - | ||
Principal | Redwood City | - | - |
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Over the past 28 years, 1329 investors have co-invested in Benchmark's portfolio companies.
- Invested before Benchmark:Ìý, Sequoia Capital and 277 others have invested in rounds before Benchmark. There are 16 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Benchmark and 6 companies where Sequoia Capital has invested before Benchmark.
- Top Co-investors of Benchmark:Ìý356 investors entered a company along with Benchmark. These include investors like Accel (18 companies).
- Invested after Benchmark:ÌýA total of 694 investors have invested in Benchmark's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include DAG Ventures (33 companies), Index Ventures (16 companies) and Coatue (13 companies).
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