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Benchmark — 2023 Investments

11 investments dated 2023 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Zillowzillow.comNASDAQ: ZJul 2023

Zillow operates an online real estate marketplace where consumers can search homes for sale and rentals across US and Canadian cities, view mortgage rate information, and access home financing through Zillow Home Loans.

FintechMarketplacesPropTechSeattle, US

Rich Barton(Founder)inLloyd D. Frink(Co-founder, Co-Executive Chairman and President)inJennifer Rock(Executive Officer)inSusan Daimler(Executive Officer)Jeremy Hofmann(Executive Officer)Bradley Owens(Executive Officer)

Co-investorsElectric Feel Ventures LlcKhosla VenturesMetaPropTCVAltimeter CapitalPIPELINE CAPITAL PARTNERS

MindsDBmindsdb.comin𝕏Seed · Feb 2023 · $16.5M✓ verified

MindsDB is an AI-data platform that lets companies connect, unify, and query data to build AI capabilities and move from experimentation to production.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Adam Carrigan(Co-founder)inJorge Torres(Co-founder)inGeorge Hosu(Senior Developer)Abi Tedder(HR Manager)

Co-investorsMayfield FundNVIDIAY CombinatorAngel InvestBenhamou Global VenturesBerkeley SkyDeck Fund+16 more

Bezibezi.comin𝕏Nov 2023

Bezi is an AI agent that operates within Unity to assist game developers with code generation, scene building, debugging, and automation tasks.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareGamingOakland, US

Cecilia Uhr(Founder)inJulian Park(Founder)inDenys Bastov(Founder)in

BoardSusan Liu(Director / investor representative)in

Board seatChetan Puttagunta· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersDesigner FundUncork Capital2.12 Angels8VCAdverb Ventures+16 more

DeepLdeepl.comin𝕏Jan 2023 · $100M

DeepL builds a Language AI platform that provides translation, voice meeting transcription, and multilingual communication tools for enterprises.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSCologne, DE

Jarek Kutylowski(CEO and Founder)inGereon Frahling(Founder)Jaroslaw Kutylowski(Founder)

Co-investorsAtomicob2ventureBessemer Venture PartnersDaniel GutenbergHeartfelt CapitalHEARTFELT_+9 more

Good Troublegoodtrouble.gamesSeed · May 2023 · $2M

Good Trouble is a technology company that builds products for the gaming industry, including AbleToPlay, which helps gamers with disabilities find accessible games, and Mido, a tool that helps teams decide what to build.

AI & Machine LearningGamingSaaS

Co-investorsGaingelsRemarkableRemarkable Australia+ AcceleratorSkycatcher Fund

Levelpathlevelpath.comin𝕏Seed · Sep 2023 · $44.5M

Levelpath provides AI agents that automate procurement workflows, transforming procurement from administrative overhead into a strategic business function.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Alex Yakubovich(Co-founder)inBryan Rosenstein(Founder)inStan Garber(Co-founder)in

Co-investors01 Advisors515 VenturesArtisanal VenturesBattery VenturesMenlo VenturesNew York Life Ventures+3 more

Miragemirage.app𝕏Series B · Jun 2023 · $25M

Mirage is an AI video company that translates natural language into high-quality videos for creators and businesses using generative models.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentNew York City, US

Gaurav Misra(Founder)inDwight Churchill(Founder)inAlaa Sadik(Founder)

Co-investors137 VenturesAndreessen HorowitzGeneral CatalystHubSpot VenturesIndex VenturesKleiner Perkins+8 more

Productscienceproductscience.aiin𝕏Jan 2023

Product Science provides end-to-end orchestration for decentralized foundation model training, coordinating workloads across geo-distributed, heterogeneous hardware (from general-purpose GPUs to ASICs) with configurable data sovereignty.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep TechLos Angeles, US

David Liberman(Founder)inMasha Liberman(Founder)in

Co-investorsCoatue ManagementMantis CapitalK5 GlobalSlow Ventures

Rascal Gamesrascalgames.comSeed · Sep 2023 · $4M

Berkeley, US

Jonathan Lin(Founder)Rick Ling(Founder)

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzPatron

Sesamesesame.comin𝕏Oct 2023

Sesame builds personal voice AI agents capable of natural conversation, along with hardware devices designed to make them more effective.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeep TechHardwareSan Francisco, US

Brendan Iribe(Founder)inAnkit Kumar(Founder)inRyan Brown(Founder)inNate MitchellinAngela Gaylesin

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzMatrixSequoia Capital7percent VenturesA*Abstract Ventures+23 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Product Science

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.