Benchmark

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.

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 Data Visualization

AcuityMD

Series B in 2024
AcuityMD is a company that offers a medical technology software platform aimed at enhancing the commercialization and effectiveness of medical devices through data-driven insights. The platform facilitates a clearer understanding of the medical products used in patient treatment, enabling device manufacturers to expand their market reach. By integrating strategic and market insights, AcuityMD's solution supports collaboration across various functions within medical companies, fostering stronger relationships between these companies and the healthcare professionals they serve.

MindsDB

Seed Round in 2023
MindsDB Inc. is an automated machine learning platform that enables organizations to derive insights from their data through predictive analytics. Founded in 2017 by Adam Carrigan and Jorge Torres, the company offers a solution that allows users to pose predictive questions and receive accurate answers, thereby democratizing access to machine learning capabilities. The platform is versatile and applicable across various industries, including retail, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, addressing needs such as credit scoring, customer lifetime value optimization, fraud detection, and risk assessment. By automating the predictive modeling process, MindsDB allows businesses to achieve the functionalities of skilled data scientists at a reduced cost, thereby transforming databases into effective data science teams. The company, which is based in Berkeley, California, was a participant in YCombinator's Winter 2020 batch and has received recognition as one of America's promising AI companies.

MindsDB

Seed Round in 2023
MindsDB Inc. is an automated machine learning platform that enables organizations to derive insights from their data through predictive analytics. Founded in 2017 by Adam Carrigan and Jorge Torres, the company offers a solution that allows users to pose predictive questions and receive accurate answers, thereby democratizing access to machine learning capabilities. The platform is versatile and applicable across various industries, including retail, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, addressing needs such as credit scoring, customer lifetime value optimization, fraud detection, and risk assessment. By automating the predictive modeling process, MindsDB allows businesses to achieve the functionalities of skilled data scientists at a reduced cost, thereby transforming databases into effective data science teams. The company, which is based in Berkeley, California, was a participant in YCombinator's Winter 2020 batch and has received recognition as one of America's promising AI companies.

MindsDB

Series A in 2023
MindsDB Inc. is an automated machine learning platform that enables organizations to derive insights from their data through predictive analytics. Founded in 2017 by Adam Carrigan and Jorge Torres, the company offers a solution that allows users to pose predictive questions and receive accurate answers, thereby democratizing access to machine learning capabilities. The platform is versatile and applicable across various industries, including retail, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, addressing needs such as credit scoring, customer lifetime value optimization, fraud detection, and risk assessment. By automating the predictive modeling process, MindsDB allows businesses to achieve the functionalities of skilled data scientists at a reduced cost, thereby transforming databases into effective data science teams. The company, which is based in Berkeley, California, was a participant in YCombinator's Winter 2020 batch and has received recognition as one of America's promising AI companies.

AcuityMD

Series A in 2022
AcuityMD is a company that offers a medical technology software platform aimed at enhancing the commercialization and effectiveness of medical devices through data-driven insights. The platform facilitates a clearer understanding of the medical products used in patient treatment, enabling device manufacturers to expand their market reach. By integrating strategic and market insights, AcuityMD's solution supports collaboration across various functions within medical companies, fostering stronger relationships between these companies and the healthcare professionals they serve.

Digits

Series C in 2022
Digits is a fintech company building tools for businesses and finance professionals by leveraging its proprietary Living Model technology. The company was founded by Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Chainalysis

Series E in 2021
Chainalysis Inc. is a blockchain analysis company that specializes in developing anti-money laundering software for cryptocurrency businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore, the company offers a range of products to enhance compliance and security in the cryptocurrency sector. Its primary tools include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that helps identify offenders and visualize data, and an API that provides transaction-based risk scoring by tracking the source and destination of funds. Chainalysis also provides activity monitoring reports and due diligence tools that assist financial institutions in assessing risks, estimating potential criminal revenues, and identifying emerging threats. The company serves a diverse clientele, including government agencies, banks, exchanges, insurance firms, and various cryptocurrency businesses, facilitating safer interactions within the decentralized finance landscape.

AcuityMD

Seed Round in 2021
AcuityMD is a company that offers a medical technology software platform aimed at enhancing the commercialization and effectiveness of medical devices through data-driven insights. The platform facilitates a clearer understanding of the medical products used in patient treatment, enabling device manufacturers to expand their market reach. By integrating strategic and market insights, AcuityMD's solution supports collaboration across various functions within medical companies, fostering stronger relationships between these companies and the healthcare professionals they serve.

Chainalysis

Series C in 2020
Chainalysis Inc. is a blockchain analysis company that specializes in developing anti-money laundering software for cryptocurrency businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore, the company offers a range of products to enhance compliance and security in the cryptocurrency sector. Its primary tools include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that helps identify offenders and visualize data, and an API that provides transaction-based risk scoring by tracking the source and destination of funds. Chainalysis also provides activity monitoring reports and due diligence tools that assist financial institutions in assessing risks, estimating potential criminal revenues, and identifying emerging threats. The company serves a diverse clientele, including government agencies, banks, exchanges, insurance firms, and various cryptocurrency businesses, facilitating safer interactions within the decentralized finance landscape.

Digits

Series B in 2020
Digits is a fintech company building tools for businesses and finance professionals by leveraging its proprietary Living Model technology. The company was founded by Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Chainalysis

Series B in 2019
Chainalysis Inc. is a blockchain analysis company that specializes in developing anti-money laundering software for cryptocurrency businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore, the company offers a range of products to enhance compliance and security in the cryptocurrency sector. Its primary tools include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that helps identify offenders and visualize data, and an API that provides transaction-based risk scoring by tracking the source and destination of funds. Chainalysis also provides activity monitoring reports and due diligence tools that assist financial institutions in assessing risks, estimating potential criminal revenues, and identifying emerging threats. The company serves a diverse clientele, including government agencies, banks, exchanges, insurance firms, and various cryptocurrency businesses, facilitating safer interactions within the decentralized finance landscape.

Confluent

Series D in 2019
Confluent, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a data platform for real-time data integration, stream processing, and analytics. The company’s offerings include a suite of products based on Apache Kafka, an open-source messaging system that facilitates the collection and processing of data from various sources. Key products include Confluent Cloud, a managed streaming data service; Confluent Operator, which manages Apache Kafka on Kubernetes; KSQL, an open-source streaming SQL engine for interactive queries; and ksqlDB, an event streaming database. Confluent's platform empowers organizations to create a real-time data pipeline, enabling immediate action on data insights. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Confluent serves a range of sectors, including financial services, retail, automotive, and government, and generates most of its revenue from subscriptions and services primarily in the United States. The company also has additional offices in several major cities across the U.S., Europe, and Australia.

Chainalysis

Series A in 2018
Chainalysis Inc. is a blockchain analysis company that specializes in developing anti-money laundering software for cryptocurrency businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore, the company offers a range of products to enhance compliance and security in the cryptocurrency sector. Its primary tools include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that helps identify offenders and visualize data, and an API that provides transaction-based risk scoring by tracking the source and destination of funds. Chainalysis also provides activity monitoring reports and due diligence tools that assist financial institutions in assessing risks, estimating potential criminal revenues, and identifying emerging threats. The company serves a diverse clientele, including government agencies, banks, exchanges, insurance firms, and various cryptocurrency businesses, facilitating safer interactions within the decentralized finance landscape.

Domo

Series D in 2017
Domo, Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that connects all levels of an organization, from executives to frontline employees, facilitating access to real-time data and insights. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in American Fork, Utah, Domo enables users to manage their business operations via smartphones. The platform is offered as a subscription-based service, allowing users to receive notifications and respond promptly, with the capability to write back to the original systems of record. In addition to its core platform, Domo provides a Programmatic Revenue Solution that integrates complex data from ad servers and sell-side platforms into user-friendly dashboards. The company's revenue primarily comes from subscriptions to its platform and related professional services.

Confluent

Series C in 2017
Confluent, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a data platform for real-time data integration, stream processing, and analytics. The company’s offerings include a suite of products based on Apache Kafka, an open-source messaging system that facilitates the collection and processing of data from various sources. Key products include Confluent Cloud, a managed streaming data service; Confluent Operator, which manages Apache Kafka on Kubernetes; KSQL, an open-source streaming SQL engine for interactive queries; and ksqlDB, an event streaming database. Confluent's platform empowers organizations to create a real-time data pipeline, enabling immediate action on data insights. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Confluent serves a range of sectors, including financial services, retail, automotive, and government, and generates most of its revenue from subscriptions and services primarily in the United States. The company also has additional offices in several major cities across the U.S., Europe, and Australia.

Elastic

Series D in 2016
Elastic is a technology company that develops the open-source Elastic Stack, which includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, as well as commercial features through X-Pack and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS offerings. The company's flagship product, Elasticsearch, is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine designed for scalability and speed, supporting diverse applications such as search, logging, metrics, and data security. With more than 250 million cumulative downloads, Elastic's solutions are utilized by a wide array of organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, NASA, and The New York Times, to manage mission-critical systems. The company's architecture is optimized for low latency and includes native vector database capabilities. Elastic has a global workforce of over 900 employees across 30 countries, reflecting its commitment to innovation and customer service in the field of data management and analytics.

Confluent

Series B in 2015
Confluent, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a data platform for real-time data integration, stream processing, and analytics. The company’s offerings include a suite of products based on Apache Kafka, an open-source messaging system that facilitates the collection and processing of data from various sources. Key products include Confluent Cloud, a managed streaming data service; Confluent Operator, which manages Apache Kafka on Kubernetes; KSQL, an open-source streaming SQL engine for interactive queries; and ksqlDB, an event streaming database. Confluent's platform empowers organizations to create a real-time data pipeline, enabling immediate action on data insights. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Confluent serves a range of sectors, including financial services, retail, automotive, and government, and generates most of its revenue from subscriptions and services primarily in the United States. The company also has additional offices in several major cities across the U.S., Europe, and Australia.

Confluent

Series A in 2014
Confluent, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a data platform for real-time data integration, stream processing, and analytics. The company’s offerings include a suite of products based on Apache Kafka, an open-source messaging system that facilitates the collection and processing of data from various sources. Key products include Confluent Cloud, a managed streaming data service; Confluent Operator, which manages Apache Kafka on Kubernetes; KSQL, an open-source streaming SQL engine for interactive queries; and ksqlDB, an event streaming database. Confluent's platform empowers organizations to create a real-time data pipeline, enabling immediate action on data insights. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Confluent serves a range of sectors, including financial services, retail, automotive, and government, and generates most of its revenue from subscriptions and services primarily in the United States. The company also has additional offices in several major cities across the U.S., Europe, and Australia.

Elastic

Series C in 2014
Elastic is a technology company that develops the open-source Elastic Stack, which includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, as well as commercial features through X-Pack and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS offerings. The company's flagship product, Elasticsearch, is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine designed for scalability and speed, supporting diverse applications such as search, logging, metrics, and data security. With more than 250 million cumulative downloads, Elastic's solutions are utilized by a wide array of organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, NASA, and The New York Times, to manage mission-critical systems. The company's architecture is optimized for low latency and includes native vector database capabilities. Elastic has a global workforce of over 900 employees across 30 countries, reflecting its commitment to innovation and customer service in the field of data management and analytics.

Elastic

Series B in 2013
Elastic is a technology company that develops the open-source Elastic Stack, which includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, as well as commercial features through X-Pack and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS offerings. The company's flagship product, Elasticsearch, is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine designed for scalability and speed, supporting diverse applications such as search, logging, metrics, and data security. With more than 250 million cumulative downloads, Elastic's solutions are utilized by a wide array of organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, NASA, and The New York Times, to manage mission-critical systems. The company's architecture is optimized for low latency and includes native vector database capabilities. Elastic has a global workforce of over 900 employees across 30 countries, reflecting its commitment to innovation and customer service in the field of data management and analytics.

Elastic

Series A in 2012
Elastic is a technology company that develops the open-source Elastic Stack, which includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash, as well as commercial features through X-Pack and Elastic Cloud, a suite of SaaS offerings. The company's flagship product, Elasticsearch, is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine designed for scalability and speed, supporting diverse applications such as search, logging, metrics, and data security. With more than 250 million cumulative downloads, Elastic's solutions are utilized by a wide array of organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, NASA, and The New York Times, to manage mission-critical systems. The company's architecture is optimized for low latency and includes native vector database capabilities. Elastic has a global workforce of over 900 employees across 30 countries, reflecting its commitment to innovation and customer service in the field of data management and analytics.

Pentaho

Series C in 2012
Pentaho Corporation is a data integration and business analytics company that offers an open-source platform designed for various big data deployments. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with an office in Tokyo, Japan, Pentaho provides a comprehensive suite of tools for data analysis, visualization, reporting, and predictive analytics. Its platform facilitates the extraction, preparation, and blending of data, enabling organizations to uncover actionable insights. Pentaho also specializes in embedded analytics solutions, cloud business analytics, and integration of Internet of Things data, allowing businesses to synthesize information from both traditional systems and big data environments. Additionally, the company offers custom dashboards, visualizations, consulting, training, and technical support services. With a diverse clientele across industries such as healthcare, retail, and financial services, Pentaho serves over 1,200 enterprise customers worldwide. The company is recognized for its contributions to key open-source analytics projects and operates under a subscription-based business model.

Domo

Series A in 2011
Domo, Inc. operates a cloud-based platform that connects all levels of an organization, from executives to frontline employees, facilitating access to real-time data and insights. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in American Fork, Utah, Domo enables users to manage their business operations via smartphones. The platform is offered as a subscription-based service, allowing users to receive notifications and respond promptly, with the capability to write back to the original systems of record. In addition to its core platform, Domo provides a Programmatic Revenue Solution that integrates complex data from ad servers and sell-side platforms into user-friendly dashboards. The company's revenue primarily comes from subscriptions to its platform and related professional services.

Mint

Series C in 2009
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.

Mint

Series B in 2008
Mint is an extensible, self-hosted web site analytics program. Its interface is an exercise in simplicity. Visits, referrers, popular pages and searches can all be taken in at a glance on Mint's flexible dashboard.

Kalido

Series C in 2005
Kalido, develops software products for master data management, data warehouse, and business intelligence. It offers Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse for model-driven creation and evolution of data warehouses and consolidating data from multiple sources; Kalido Master Data Management for workflow-driven master data management; Kalido Business Information Modeler, a graphical business modeling tool to capture and present the underlying business mode; and Kalido Universal Information Director, which generates the metadata needed to automatically configure chosen business intelligence tools. The company also provides solution delivery, expert advisory, installation, upgrade planning, implementation audit, project planning, and proof of value services. Kalido, Ltd. was formerly known as Highpike Limited and changed its name to Kalido, Ltd. in 2001. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts. Kalido, Ltd. is a prior subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell.

Kalido

Series A in 2003
Kalido, develops software products for master data management, data warehouse, and business intelligence. It offers Kalido Dynamic Information Warehouse for model-driven creation and evolution of data warehouses and consolidating data from multiple sources; Kalido Master Data Management for workflow-driven master data management; Kalido Business Information Modeler, a graphical business modeling tool to capture and present the underlying business mode; and Kalido Universal Information Director, which generates the metadata needed to automatically configure chosen business intelligence tools. The company also provides solution delivery, expert advisory, installation, upgrade planning, implementation audit, project planning, and proof of value services. Kalido, Ltd. was formerly known as Highpike Limited and changed its name to Kalido, Ltd. in 2001. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts. Kalido, Ltd. is a prior subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell.
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