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Benchmark stages, portfolio and investment profile
Early-stage firm known for its equal-partnership model and concentrated Series A investments.
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Stage-based planning range
$1M–$10M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Series A
Participates: Seed, Series A
Sector focus
Generalist Technology
Geography
San Francisco, CA
Founded 1995
Fund size / AUM
Not recorded
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
23
Linked startup profiles
Latest fund vehicle
Not recorded
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Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Benchmark as an investor (23 total).
- 11x AI digital workers for revenue teams — autonomous SDR Alice and voice agent Jordan.
- Amplitude Product analytics and behavioral data platform for digital teams.
- Anysphere Company behind Cursor, the AI-native code editor for software development.
- Asana Work management and team collaboration software.
- Boku Carrier billing and mobile payments for digital goods and app stores.
- Cantina AI Social AI platform for persistent characters across voice, video, and text (Cantina).
- Cerebras Wafer-scale AI chips and inference cloud — CS-3 systems and Cerebras Inference API for training and production LLM serving.
- Cursor AI-native code editor (Anysphere) that forks VS Code for agentic programming workflows.
- Cyngn Industrial autonomy company (NASDAQ: CYN) retrofitting forklifts with DriveMod AI.
- Decart Real-time generative world models for gaming, robotics simulation, and physical AI.
- Deep Cogito San Francisco post-training lab building open-weight Cogito models and enterprise-owned specialized models — not Cogito Corp, the Boston contact-center coach.
- Exa AI-native web search API built for developers and AI agents, not traditional search portals.
- Here Not There Labs Builder of Towns — decentralized, E2E-encrypted group chat protocol for online communities.
- Here Not There, Inc. Corporate parent of Towns protocol (Here Not There Labs) — decentralized community messaging.
- Hipcamp Marketplace unlocking private land for camping, glamping, and RV stays.
- Instagram Mobile photo-sharing app with filters and social graph — acquired by Facebook for ~$1B in 2012.
- Instinct Consumer life-ops AI agent you text and call across connected apps and devices.
- Optimizely Enterprise A/B testing and experimentation platform; acquired by Episerver in 2020, now the combined company brand.
- Quora Q&A platform; Poe is a multi-model AI chat and bot-creation marketplace.
- Reducto AI document-intelligence platform parsing PDFs and unstructured files for enterprise agents.
- Sesame Conversational speech AI and AI glasses with sub-300ms response times.
- Sierra Enterprise AI agents for customer experience—voice and text resolution with outcome-based pricing.
- Starcloud Orbital data-center satellites for AI inference, starting with an Nvidia H100 in space.
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