Elite, Low-volume Series A

San Francisco, United States · 264+ investments · 196 portfolio companies

Seed
Early Stage
Artificial Intelligence
Infrastructure
Marketplace
SaaS
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Founded
1995
AUM
$3.0B
Portfolio Companies
196
Total Investments
264
Last Investment
Aug 2026
Geographic Focus
United States

Investment Thesis

Benchmark focuses on founder-first, high-conviction early-stage investing. Partners take equal stakes and board seats, with no junior staff, backing exceptional founders in consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, and infrastructure.

Benchmark is a Venture Capital firm based in San Francisco, United States. It has made 264 investments in Artificial Intelligence and Infrastructure, including Ubiquity6, Robo and Mothership.

Portfolio196

Ubiquity6
R
Robo
Mothership
X
Confluent
S
Synopsys
Product Science
Buoyant
Peixe Urbano
Imagine Impact
Modern Treasury
Timescale
OneTwoTrip
L
Living.com
Manus AI
Critical Path
Nextdoor
Numeral
Proofpoint
Juniper Networks
Wealthfront
Eigen
Here Not There
Glide
Baixing
AcuityMD
TigerData
Airtable
ResearchGate
JW
Jasper Wireless
D
Duo
Duffel
Elastic
WeWork
Lithium Technologies
OpenTable
One Medical
Hipcamp
Mint
Betfair
T
TriStrata
11x
FOMO
Asana
Fireworks AI
Applied Compute
DeepCogito
Popshop Live

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Venture Capital ×19 · Hedge Fund ×3 · Angel Group ×1 · 247 shared rounds

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