Benchmark — 2015 Investments
6 investments dated 2015 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all
Snapchat is a mobile app for communicating with friends and family through photos and videos, featuring augmented-reality Lenses, creative sharing tools, and a personalized map for discovering places and content.
ConsumerCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentSocialSanta Monica, US
Evan T Spiegel(Executive Officer, Director)Robert C Murphy(Executive Officer, Director)Evan Spiegel(Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer)inBobby Murphy(Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer)Reggie Brown(Co-founder; former Chief Marketing Officer)Tim Sehn(Executive Officer)
Board seatMitch Lasky· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsA-Rod CorpAlibaba GroupCoatue ManagementEntrée CapitalFidelity InvestmentsGeneral Atlantic+22 more
Aquifi was a Palo Alto industrial-computer-vision startup that combined proprietary RGB-D/stereo sensing, 3D reconstruction and machine learning to automate logistics dimensioning, counting, identification and manufacturing inspection.
RoboticsPalo Alto, US
Nazim Kareemi(Co-founder and Executive Chairman)Abbas Rafii(Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer)Jason Trachewsky(Chief Executive Officer)in
BoardRongjun Cai(Director)
Board seatBruce Dunlevie· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsDag Ventures
Defunct financial-technology holding company that bought percentages of professional athletes' future earnings and financed them through SEC-registered tracking stocks and a private multi-athlete portfolio security.
FintechSan Francisco, US
Cornell French(Executive Officer, Director)David Beirne(Director)David Mullin(Co-founder, former CFO and later Chief Executive Officer)Cornell 'Buck' French(Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer)David M. Beirne(Co-founder and former Chairman)
Board seatBruce Dunlevie· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsCommunitas Capital Partners
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsGamingRedmond, US
James Gwertzman(Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer)Matt Augustine(Co-founder and technical leader)Hal Robert Berry(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTimothy Dick(Director)Emily Greer(Director named in financing filing)
Board seatMitch Lasky· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsColopl NextMadrona Venture GroupStartup Capital VenturesTSVC
BugSnag provides error monitoring, performance monitoring, and distributed tracing for mobile and web applications, helping development teams identify and resolve bugs and performance issues across their entire software stack.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
James Smith(Co-founder and CEO)Simon Maynard(Co-founder and CTO)
BoardEric Vishria(Benchmark partner / board member)
Co-investorsGV (Google Ventures)Matrix
Optimizely develops an AI-powered marketing operating system used by over 10,000 businesses to manage campaigns and conduct experiments.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Pete Koomen(Founder)inDan Siroker(Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer)Alexander Atzberger(Chief Executive Officer of combined Optimizely)inShafqat Islamin
BoardIlya Fushman(Director)inScott Weiss(Director)
Co-investorsAdvancit CapitalAndreessen HorowitzAshton KutcherBattery VenturesBridge BankCorrelation Ventures+20 more
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.