Benchmark is a venture capital firm founded in 1995, headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Woodside, California; London, United Kingdom; and Herzliya Pituach, Israel. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on technology-driven companies across various sectors, including enterprise software, communications, semiconductors, mobile, social, and cloud computing. Benchmark primarily targets companies based in the United States, particularly on the West Coast, as well as in Europe and Israel. The firm seeks to be the first investor in its portfolio companies, typically making initial investments between $3 million and $5 million, with total investments ranging from $1 million to $15 million over the life of the investments. Benchmark is recognized for its unique structure of five equal general partners who actively engage with entrepreneurs, taking board seats and providing hands-on support, which has contributed to its success in achieving numerous exits, including IPOs and mergers and acquisitions, valued at over $60 billion.
988 Market Street San Francisco, California 94102, USA
Alex Balkanski
General Partner
Bruce Dunlevie
General Partner
Peter Fenton
General Partner
Miles Grimshaw
General Partner
Bill Gurley
General Partner
Kevin Harvey
Founder and General Partner
Jill Jarrett
CFO
Bob Kagle
Owner and General Partner
Chetan Puttagunta
General Partner
Steven Spurlock
Operating Partner
Sarah Tavel
General Partner
Eric Vishria
General Partner
Past deals in Palestine
G.ho.st
Series A in 2008
An acronym for the Global Hosted Operating SysTem, G.ho.st (pronounced "ghost") is a free virtual computer that hosts all of your data and applications on the web so that they are accessible from any Internet browser and not tied down locally to any one computer. G.ho.st combines multiple web software applications in their virtual computer to provide users with a web desktop, webmail, online file system, 15 GB of storage, single sign in, and sharing. The company also makes sure to keep users' globally hosted files/applications secure and backed up. Recently founded in 2006, G.ho.st is self-funded by company founder and CEO Zvi Schreiber. G.ho.st actually launched in 2007 and is currently in public Alpha. The company plans on releasing a Beta version later in 2007. Not only is it unique in its vision to create a free, fully functional, and globally accessible virtual computer, G.ho.st is also unique for putting together a collaborative team in the heart of the Middle East. With a wall at the West Bank dividing them in two, the G.ho.st team is comprised of both Israelis and Palestinians, and prides itself on collaboration. The company should be lauded for their efforts to bridge the differences between the two sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as they have also pledged 10% of their founding equity to a G.ho.st Peace Foundation. Primary competitors: [eyeOS](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eyeOS), [Desktoptwo](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/desktoptwo), and [YouOS](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/youos). Ghost.cc is going to shutdown December 9 ,2010 and G.ho.st is going to be back and everything will be the way it was back then when it was a web based os
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