Benchmark
Actively deployingSan Francisco Β· 3 people tracked
Fund manager profile
Benchmark is a venture fund manager based in San Francisco. SEC filings show 2 venture funds on record, most recently Benchmark Partners 2, L.P. ($750M offering) filed June 2026.
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D filings. Firm website data not yet available.
Team Β· 3 people
from the firm's websiteBill Gurley spent over two decades as a general partner at Benchmark, where his board seats included Uber, GrubHub, Zillow, and Stitch Fix. A former Wall Street research analyst, he is known for his long-form blog Above the Crowd and for public warnings about late-stage valuations and market structure. He stepped back from active investing at Benchmark in 2020 and now co-hosts the BG2 podcast with Brad Gerstner.
Peter Fenton has been a general partner at Benchmark since 2006, following early years at Accel. His investments and board seats have included Twitter, Yelp, New Relic, Elastic, and Zuora, making him one of the longest-tenured recurring names on the Midas List.
Sarah Tavel joined Benchmark in 2017 as the firm's first woman general partner, backing Chainalysis, Hipcamp, and 11x, and transitioned to a venture partner role in 2025 to spend more time exploring AI. Earlier she was a product leader at Pinterest and a partner at Greylock. She writes a widely read newsletter on marketplaces, consumer products, and AI.
What they invest in
from 39 of 40 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software Γ24AI & Machine Learning Γ18SaaS Γ16Developer Tools Γ15Data & Infrastructure Γ10Crypto & Web3 Γ4Fintech Γ4Marketing Tech Γ4
HQs:United StatesΓ22SwitzerlandΓ1GermanyΓ1
Investments Β· 40 tracked
founders shown can be your intro path11x builds autonomous digital workers using AI and agents to automate repetitive tasks in revenue functions like sales and customer success. The platform enables companies to scale operations by delegating essential but mundane work to digital workers.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
HeyGen is an AI video generation and dubbing platform that allows users to create and localize videos by writing scripts and selecting AI-generated voices, eliminating the need for cameras, actors, and traditional production resources. The platform serves businesses and content creators seeking to produce high-quality multilingual video content at scale.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSLos Angeles, US
Joshua Xu
Solv is a healthcare platform that connects consumers to convenient care providers like urgent care clinics and retail clinics through transparent pricing and online booking. The company operates a marketplace linking patients with high-quality providers across the United States to simplify same-day healthcare access.
ConsumerDigital HealthHealthtechMarketplacesSaaS
Heather Fernandez(CEO & Co-founder)Daniele Bertini(CTO & Co-founder)
Agentio is an AI infrastructure platform that enables brands to buy creator media at scale. The platform matches brands with verified creators, predicts campaign performance, and automates the operational workflow while preserving creative control.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Airbyte provides a context layer for agents and pipelines, enabling connection and data integration capabilities. The platform delivers live demonstrations to help users understand its functionality.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Airbyte provides a context layer for agents and pipelines, enabling data connectivity and integration solutions. The platform serves organizations that need to connect and manage data across their systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Michel Tricot(Co-Founder & CEO)inJean Lafleur(Co-Founder & COO)in
Asana is a collaborative work management platform that helps teams align work to goals, coordinate tasks, and automate processes using AI-powered workflows. The platform serves organizations of all sizes seeking to improve productivity, visibility, and execution across teams and departments.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkMarketing TechSaaS
Bezi is an AI agent that operates within Unity to assist game developers with code generation, scene building, debugging, and automation tasks. It indexes a developer's full project contextβscripts, assets, scenes, and documentationβto provide tailored assistance while maintaining data privacy and security.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsGaming
Citymapper is a mobile app that provides real-time transit information, journey planning, and AI-powered route recommendations across 400+ major cities worldwide, offering both consumer features and B2B solutions for cities and transit agencies.
AI & Machine LearningMobility & Transportation
Discord is a communications platform for voice, video, and text chat designed primarily for gaming communities and players. It enables game developers to integrate social features directly into games and supports live streaming, custom communities, and in-game activities.
Creator EconomyGamingSocial
Jason Citron(Founder)Stanislav Vishnevskiy(CTO)
Duo provides identity and access security solutions that help organizations detect threats and verify user authentication across their infrastructure. The platform serves enterprise security teams across retail, education, and industrial sectors.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Glide is a no-code platform that converts spreadsheets into AI-powered business applications for automating manual workflows. It serves companies across operations, finance, HR, inventory, logistics, and procurement.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Mark Probst(Founder)inDavid Siegel(Founder)inJason Smith(Founder)in
Glide provides cross-chain wallet funding infrastructure for decentralized applications, enabling users to deposit cryptocurrency from any chain, wallet, or exchange without bridges or swaps. The platform streamlines onboarding for crypto products by allowing instant deposits directly to user accounts.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Health insurance management platform optimizing benefits and reducing healthcare costs.
Gumloop is a platform for building and deploying AI agents that automate business tasks such as data analysis, customer support, CRM management, and meeting preparation. The platform serves enterprise teams and includes multi-agent workflow orchestration, integrations with workplace tools like Slack and Teams, and security controls for managing AI model access and data governance.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
AronKatherineMaxGonzalo
A full-stack monitoring platform that helps developers identify performance issues and bugs in web applications through session replay and error tracking.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSeattle, US
Jay Khatri(Cofounder, CEO (acquired by LaunchDarkly))inVadim Korolik(Founder)in
Hipcamp is a platform to discover and book camping experiences including tent sites, RV resorts, glamping, and private land stays across the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It connects campers with landowners to enable outdoor recreation while supporting land conservation.
ConsumerMarketplacesTravel & Hospitality
Alyssa Ravasio(Founder and CEO)Eric Bach(Co-founder)
Instawork is a marketplace that connects local businesses with hourly workers for short-term staffing needs. The platform enables businesses to hire temporary labor efficiently and provides income opportunities for hourly workers globally.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechMarketplacesSan Francisco, US
Sumir Meghani(Founder/CEO)in<UNKNOWN>
MindsDB builds open-source infrastructure for AI-augmented analytics and data work, enabling users to interact with their data through natural language. The platform serves data engineers, analysts, and SQL users who want to leverage AI as a collaborative partner without moving their data.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Adam Carrigan(Co-founder & COO)inJorge Torres(Co-founder & CEO)in
Mothership provides business solutions that replace traditional problem-solving approaches for companies, though the specific nature of their offerings is not clearly detailed on the page.
B2B MarketplacesData & InfrastructureEdTechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechMarketplacesMiami Beach, US
Ollama provides a platform for building with and running open-source language models locally and in the cloud. It enables developers to quickly deploy and access models like Claude Code and OpenClaw.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Optimizely develops an AI-powered marketing operating system used by over 10,000 businesses to manage campaigns and conduct experiments. The platform serves marketing teams across enterprises globally.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Pete Koomen(Founder)in
Pachyderm provides a platform for orchestrating and managing multi-step data workflows, allowing teams to automate sequences of data processing tasks from ingestion through analysis. The tool is designed for organizations seeking to formalize and scale ad-hoc data scripts into reliable production systems.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Pax AI provides AI-powered compliance infrastructure for global trade, helping enterprises manage duty drawback and trade compliance across fragmented systems. The platform transforms disconnected trade data into a real-time intelligence layer for compliance teams at import and export decision points.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSan Francisco, US
Picarro provides greenhouse gas and volatile organic compound monitoring solutions for industrial and scientific customers. The company combines emissions detection hardware with data analytics and expert guidance to help clients manage regulatory compliance, optimize operations, and advance environmental research.
CleantechClimate TechIoT
Reducto provides document processing APIs that parse, classify, extract, and edit data from documents at enterprise scale. The platform combines OCR and vision language models to transform unstructured documents into structured data for AI teams across finance, healthcare, legal, and other industries.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
REKKI provides software solutions for wholesale food suppliers to streamline operations and integrate with their existing systems. The platform serves food industry wholesalers with tools and integrations designed to reduce costs and operational complexity.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFoodTechSaaS
Ronen Givon(CEO, Co-founder)Orat Benyamini(COO, Co-founder)Noam Givon(Co-founder)
Sema4.ai builds intelligent agents that use natural language processing to enable users to express and execute complex tasks, and deploys Actions to accelerate enterprise workflows. The platform provides an open-source framework for developers and engineers to manage human-AI collaboration through a central control interface.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Rob Bearden(CEO)Ram Venkatesh(CTO)Paul Codding(SVP of Product and Customer Experience)
Starcloud designs and deploys data centers in space to support hyperscale computing workloads, leveraging continuous solar energy and radiative cooling for gigawatt-scale AI training clusters. The company targets operators of large-scale compute infrastructure seeking alternatives to terrestrial data centers.
Advanced ManufacturingClimate TechCloud ComputingDeep TechSpace TechSeattle, US
Philip Johnston(Founder/CEO)inPhilipEzraAdi
Tabula develops AI-powered accounting software that automatically analyzes financial data and generates insights for business owners without requiring dedicated finance expertise.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechBerlin, DE
Tim Hermes(Founder)inMarkus Jungnickel(Founder)inKilian Justus(Founder)in
Towns is an open messaging protocol built on Base that enables private group communications and decentralized finance applications. The platform hosts curated community groups focused on trading, gaming, creator economy, and decentralized finance activities.
Crypto & Web3FintechSocial
Turntable is a collaborative workspace for developing, deploying, and monitoring data reporting stacks, supporting dbt, SQLMesh, and SQL queries. The platform enables data teams to collaborate on transformations, maintain lineage visibility, and deploy changes with built-in data quality monitoring.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Wally Gurzynski(Founder)inJustin Leder(Founder)inIan Tracey(Founder)in
Vessel is a developer-first platform that enables companies to integrate with customer-facing applications through a unified API, webhooks, and managed data pipelines. It handles authentication, permission management, rate limiting, and data synchronization across multiple third-party apps.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Xapo provides banking and wealth management services for Bitcoin holders, offering savings accounts with interest returns, lending against Bitcoin collateral, and custody solutions.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Benchmark located?
- Benchmark is headquartered in San Francisco, US.