Benchmark

Venture Capital

Profile

Founded
1995
Headquarters
San Francisco, US
Investments
40
Companies
15

Capital

Total Deployed
$4.4B
Lead Rounds
11

Portfolio

15 companies
Uber $13.2B
Public San Francisco, US

Global ride-hailing, food delivery, and freight technology platform operating in over 70 countries, connecting riders with drivers and eaters with restaurants through its app.

Anysphere $3.4B
Private San Francisco, US

Anysphere builds Cursor, an AI-powered code editor that helps developers write, refactor, and review code using natural language. Founded by four MIT students in 2022, the company has grown to over $1 billion in annualized revenue and is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history.

Cerebras Systems $2.8B
Private Sunnyvale, US

AI hardware company that builds the world's largest chip (WSE) for training and inference of large AI models.

Snap $2.6B
Public Santa Monica, US

Camera and social media company behind Snapchat, the visual messaging app with disappearing messages, Stories, augmented reality Lenses, and Snap Map, reaching over 800 million monthly active users.

Airtable $1.4B
Private San Francisco, US

Low-code platform combining the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the power of a database, enabling teams to build collaborative apps and workflows without writing code, used by over 500,000 organizations.

Discord $995M
Private San Francisco, US

Communication platform for communities and friends, offering voice, video, and text chat used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

ElevenLabs $781M
Private New York, US

AI voice technology company specializing in realistic speech synthesis, voice cloning, and multilingual text-to-speech.

Dropbox $607M
Public San Francisco, US

Cloud storage and file synchronization platform that lets users store, share, and collaborate on files across devices.

Benchling $412M
Private San Francisco, US

Benchling is a cloud-based life sciences R&D platform that helps biotech and pharmaceutical companies manage experiments, track data, and accelerate research and development. The platform replaces physical lab notebooks and spreadsheets with collaborative, AI-ready digital tools used by over 1,200 customers worldwide.

Bedrock Robotics $350M
Private San Francisco, US

Autonomous construction technology company that retrofits heavy equipment like excavators with autonomous capabilities. Founded by ex-Waymo engineers.

Amplitude $336M
Public San Francisco, US

Amplitude is a product analytics platform that helps companies understand user behavior to build better digital products. Originally incubated at Y Combinator (W12) as a voice-to-text app called Sonalight, the founders pivoted to analytics after realizing the internal tools they built were more valuable than the app itself. The company pioneered the product intelligence category and went public via direct listing on NASDAQ in September 2021.

Optimizely $251M
Acquired San Francisco, US

Digital experience optimization platform providing A/B testing, experimentation, and personalization tools for websites, mobile apps, and connected devices. Co-founded by two former Google product managers who worked on the Obama 2008 campaign's digital optimization. Acquired by Episerver (now Optimizely) in 2020.

Asana $213M
Public San Francisco, US

Asana is a work management platform that helps teams plan, organize, and track projects and tasks. Founded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and former Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein, the company serves over 75,000 customers.

Cyngn $110M
Public Mountain View, United States

Cyngn develops AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology for industrial and commercial applications. The company's DriveMod platform enables autonomous tuggers and forklifts for warehouses and manufacturing facilities, addressing labor shortages without requiring special infrastructure. Originally founded as Cyanogen Inc. to commercialize the CyanogenMod Android OS, the company pivoted to autonomous vehicles in 2017.

Manus $85M
Acquired Singapore, SG

General-purpose autonomous AI agent platform that executes complex real-world tasks without continuous human supervision.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.