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Benchmark

Venture Capital · Founded 1995 · Woodside, United States

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We believe that great entrepreneurs change the world for the better. Our job is to enable them to do it.

354 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $22B invested · 721 investments · Investor rank #110 · Last investment 6/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 13% 5y
354
Decacorns ↑ 31% 5y
17
Thoroughbreds ↑ 13% 5y
60
Exits

Benchmark’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Benchmark’s transaction record.

Uber
$82B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $154BFood
Equinix
$240M IPO · 2000
Entered Series ANow $121BSecurity
Anysphere | Cursor
$60B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+Enterprise Software
eBay
IPO · 1998
Entered Series ANow $53BTelecom
Cerebras Systems
$40B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $38BSemiconductors
Red Hat
$5.0B IPO · 1999
Entered Series B+Now $34BHosting
X.
$25B IPO · 2013
Entered Series B+Now $33BMedia
Snap
$33B IPO · 2017
Entered Series ANow $9.0BMedia
Confluent
$11B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $10BEnterprise Software
Zendesk
$632M IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $10BEnterprise Software
Dropbox
$9.2B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $9.9BSecurity
Zillow
$539M IPO · 2011
Entered Series ANow $7.4BFintech
Portfolio analysis

Where Benchmark's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 354 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA285
  2. Israel17
  3. UK13
  4. Germany6
  5. Sweden5
  6. Cuba4
  7. Brazil3
  8. Canada3
  9. China2
  10. France2
  11. Netherlands2
  12. Argentina1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software107
  2. Media56
  3. Marketing34
  4. Fintech33
  5. Telecom26
  6. Gaming25
  7. Security25
  8. Semiconductors15
  9. Health14
  10. Food13
  11. Transportation13
  12. Jobs Recruitment11
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A202
  2. Series B+121
  3. Seed36
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage178
  2. Late Growth123
  3. Early Growth51
  4. Mature7
Portfolio market map

Inside Benchmark's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 354 tracked.

Uber
Food · Centicorn
$154B
WeWork
Real Estate
Anysphere | Cursor
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$50B
Cerebras Systems
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$38B
Snap
Media · Unicorn
$9.0B
Fireworks AI
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$18B
X.
Media · Decacorn
$33B
Sierra
Marketing · Decacorn
$16B
Airtable
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$11B
ClickHouse
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$15B
Discord
Gaming · Decacorn
$15B
Zopa
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.1B
Legora
Legal · Unicorn
$5.6B
Tinder
Dating · Decacorn
$10B
Sorare
Gaming · Unicorn
$4.3B
Nextdoor
Media
$649M
Domo
Marketing
$400M
Cockroach Labs
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$5.0B
Dropbox
Security · Unicorn
$9.9B
One Medical
Health · Unicorn
$3.7B
Nanosolar
Energy
Chainalysis
Fintech · Unicorn
$8.6B
Docker
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$2.1B
Mercor
Jobs Recruitment · Decacorn
$10B
Confluent
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$10B
Decart
Media · Unicorn
$4.0B
Sigma Networks
Security
Asana
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.6B
Benchling
Health · Unicorn
$6.1B
DeepL
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$2.0B
Good Technology
Security
$280M
Webvan
Food · Unicorn
$1.1B
Equinix
Security · Centicorn
$121B
Exa
Media · Unicorn
$2.2B
Quora
Media · Unicorn
$2.0B
Amplitude
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.1B
Skybox Security
Security
$24M
Contentful
Media · Unicorn
$1.3B
Infinera
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.2B
Minted
Media
$800M
Hortonworks
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$5.2B
Zuora
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.4B
Icera
Telecom
$45M
New Relic
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$5.1B
Tabula
Semiconductors
$432M
Jasper
Telecom · Unicorn
$1.4B
Glassdoor
Media · Unicorn
$1.2B
Wealthfront
Fintech
$964M
Lithium Technologies
Media
$200M
Good Eggs
Food
$22M
Sunday
Robotics · Unicorn
$1.1B
Optimizely
Marketing
$200M
Starcloud
Hosting · Unicorn
$1.1B
1stdibs
Home Living
$95M
thatgamecompany
Gaming · Unicorn
$1.9B
Timescale
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
Modern Treasury
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.0B
Airbyte
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.5B
Wildlife
Gaming · Unicorn
$3.0B
CTERA Networks
Enterprise Software
$120M
Portfolio founders

Where Benchmark's portfolio founders come from.

165 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States121
  2. United Kingdom6
  3. China4
  4. Argentina3
  5. France3
  6. Germany3
  7. Israel3
  8. Sweden3
  9. Netherlands2
  10. Australia1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University18
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology14
  3. Harvard University9
  4. Stanford University Graduate School of Business8
  5. University of California, Berkeley6
  6. Harvard Business School5
  7. Princeton University5
  8. Dartmouth College4
  9. Technion Israel Institute of Technology4
  10. University of Michigan4
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google17
  2. Meta7
  3. Microsoft6
  4. Stanford University5
  5. Bain & Company4
  6. eBay4
  7. Electronic Arts4
  8. HP Enterprise4
  9. Modesat4
  10. Salesforce4
How Benchmark stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,918 companies $23T portfolio
SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#120 rank 983 companies $3.9T portfolio
Accel
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#32 rank 1,156 companies $3.1T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#54 rank 847 companies $1.9T portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,186 companies $4.6T portfolio
500 Global
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#433 rank 2,321 companies $292B portfolio
Tiger Global
Venture Capital · New York City
#18 rank 811 companies $3.9T portfolio
Index Ventures
Venture Capital · London
#56 rank 675 companies $1.2T portfolio
Key people

Key people at Benchmark.

Bob Kagle
Bob Kagle
Founder
 Daniel Slutzky
Daniel Slutzky
CFO
 Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley
General Partner
 Peter Fenton
Peter Fenton
General Partner
 Matt Cohler
Matt Cohler
Partner
 Eric Vishria
Eric Vishria
General Partner
 Sarah Tavel
Sarah Tavel
General Partner
 Chetan Puttagunta
Chetan Puttagunta
General Partner
 Everett Randle
Everett Randle
General Partner
 Jack Altman
Jack Altman
General Partner
 Michael Eisenberg
Michael Eisenberg
Partner
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.