Benchmark

Founded in 1995, Benchmark is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on technology-driven companies in sectors such as enterprise software, communications, semiconductors, and consumer services, primarily based in the United States and Europe. The firm aims to be the first investor in its portfolio companies, typically investing between $3 million and $15 million over their lifecycle.

Alex Balkanski

General Partner

Jason Droege

Venture Partner

Bruce Dunlevie

General Partner

Peter Fenton

General Partner

Bill Gurley

General Partner

Kevin Harvey

General Partner

Jill Jarrett

CFO

Robert Kagle

Owner and General Partner

Mitch Lasky JD

Partner

Victor Lazarte

General Partner

Victor Lazarte

General Partner

Arad Naveh

Partner

Chetan Puttagunta

General Partner

Steven Spurlock JD

Operating Partner

Sarah Tavel

General Partner

Eric Vishria

General Partner

Past deals in Database

ClickHouse

Series B in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system designed for online analytical processing. It enables real-time analytical reporting by executing SQL queries over large datasets. Its columnar storage reduces data footprint and speeds up query performance by eliminating unnecessary data, while vector-based processing enhances CPU efficiency for large-scale workloads. The system handles vast numbers of rows and gigabytes of data per server, delivering secure, reliable, and scalable analytics that help enterprises streamline data processing.

ClickHouse

Series A in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system designed for online analytical processing. It enables real-time analytical reporting by executing SQL queries over large datasets. Its columnar storage reduces data footprint and speeds up query performance by eliminating unnecessary data, while vector-based processing enhances CPU efficiency for large-scale workloads. The system handles vast numbers of rows and gigabytes of data per server, delivering secure, reliable, and scalable analytics that help enterprises streamline data processing.

Cockroach Labs

Series E in 2021
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source database software, particularly known for its flagship product, CockroachDB. This cloud-native, distributed SQL database is designed to support the rapid scaling of applications while ensuring resilience against failures, including disk, machine, and datacenter outages. CockroachDB offers strong consistency and ACID transactions, along with an SQL API for efficient data management. The platform is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries such as finance, retail, and media. Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company focuses on enabling developers to build robust applications without compromising on performance or reliability.

Airtable

Series D in 2020
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that provides a no-code platform for creating and sharing relational databases and custom applications. The platform enables users to organize data, automate workflows, and build flexible templates for tasks such as project tracking, inventory management, and CRM, without coding. It supports collaboration across teams and can incorporate artificial intelligence features to streamline processes. Airtable serves organizations across various industries enabling teams to tailor software tools to their workflows without traditional development resources.

Cockroach Labs

Series D in 2020
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source database software, particularly known for its flagship product, CockroachDB. This cloud-native, distributed SQL database is designed to support the rapid scaling of applications while ensuring resilience against failures, including disk, machine, and datacenter outages. CockroachDB offers strong consistency and ACID transactions, along with an SQL API for efficient data management. The platform is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries such as finance, retail, and media. Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company focuses on enabling developers to build robust applications without compromising on performance or reliability.

Cockroach Labs

Series C in 2019
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source database software, particularly known for its flagship product, CockroachDB. This cloud-native, distributed SQL database is designed to support the rapid scaling of applications while ensuring resilience against failures, including disk, machine, and datacenter outages. CockroachDB offers strong consistency and ACID transactions, along with an SQL API for efficient data management. The platform is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries such as finance, retail, and media. Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company focuses on enabling developers to build robust applications without compromising on performance or reliability.

Airtable

Series C in 2018
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that provides a no-code platform for creating and sharing relational databases and custom applications. The platform enables users to organize data, automate workflows, and build flexible templates for tasks such as project tracking, inventory management, and CRM, without coding. It supports collaboration across teams and can incorporate artificial intelligence features to streamline processes. Airtable serves organizations across various industries enabling teams to tailor software tools to their workflows without traditional development resources.

Cockroach Labs

Series B in 2017
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source database software, particularly known for its flagship product, CockroachDB. This cloud-native, distributed SQL database is designed to support the rapid scaling of applications while ensuring resilience against failures, including disk, machine, and datacenter outages. CockroachDB offers strong consistency and ACID transactions, along with an SQL API for efficient data management. The platform is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries such as finance, retail, and media. Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company focuses on enabling developers to build robust applications without compromising on performance or reliability.

Cockroach Labs

Series A in 2016
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source database software, particularly known for its flagship product, CockroachDB. This cloud-native, distributed SQL database is designed to support the rapid scaling of applications while ensuring resilience against failures, including disk, machine, and datacenter outages. CockroachDB offers strong consistency and ACID transactions, along with an SQL API for efficient data management. The platform is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries such as finance, retail, and media. Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company focuses on enabling developers to build robust applications without compromising on performance or reliability.

Cockroach Labs

Series A in 2015
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing open-source database software, particularly known for its flagship product, CockroachDB. This cloud-native, distributed SQL database is designed to support the rapid scaling of applications while ensuring resilience against failures, including disk, machine, and datacenter outages. CockroachDB offers strong consistency and ACID transactions, along with an SQL API for efficient data management. The platform is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from small startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries such as finance, retail, and media. Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company focuses on enabling developers to build robust applications without compromising on performance or reliability.

Xeround

Series C in 2011
Xeround is a database-as-a-service provider specializing in elastic and scalable solutions for MySQL applications. The company addresses critical database scalability issues arising from the growth of cloud computing and big data, enabling service providers and customers to manage data more effectively. Xeround offers a patented technology that combines the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases with the simplicity and scalability of NoSQL data stores. Its cloud-designed database solution supports multi-tenancy, high availability, auto-scaling, and self-healing features, ensuring continuous service during schema changes and resource modifications. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, and development operations in Israel, Xeround aims to facilitate seamless data management and synchronization across cloud environments.

Sentrigo

Series C in 2010
Sentrigo is a database security company that specializes in host-based software solutions designed to safeguard enterprise databases. Founded in 2005 and based in Kfar Saba, Israel, Sentrigo provides real-time monitoring of all database activities, addressing both external threats and insider risks. Its flagship solution, Hedgehog, utilizes a patent-pending agent technology that operates with a minimal footprint, ensuring complete visibility into database interactions without affecting performance. The software features real-time alerting, policy breach reporting, session termination, quarantining, and virtual patching for database management system vulnerabilities. Sentrigo aims to enhance database security by enabling enterprises to effectively track and respond to potential threats.

Terracotta

Venture Round in 2008
Terracotta, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Software AG, specializes in in-memory data management solutions tailored for enterprises. Established in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is renowned for its flagship product, BigMemory™, which allows for low latency, in-memory access to data from various sources. This capability enables organizations to process large volumes and diverse types of Big Data significantly faster than traditional methods, enhancing application performance at scale. In addition to BigMemory™, Terracotta offers Enterprise Ehcache, a solution designed to optimize the scalability and performance of enterprise applications.

Xeround

Series B in 2008
Xeround is a database-as-a-service provider specializing in elastic and scalable solutions for MySQL applications. The company addresses critical database scalability issues arising from the growth of cloud computing and big data, enabling service providers and customers to manage data more effectively. Xeround offers a patented technology that combines the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases with the simplicity and scalability of NoSQL data stores. Its cloud-designed database solution supports multi-tenancy, high availability, auto-scaling, and self-healing features, ensuring continuous service during schema changes and resource modifications. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, and development operations in Israel, Xeround aims to facilitate seamless data management and synchronization across cloud environments.

Metaweb Technologies

Series B in 2008
Metaweb Technologies develops a community-curated database and semantic data storage infrastructure for the web. The company was founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook, and John Giannandrea

Sentrigo

Series B in 2008
Sentrigo is a database security company that specializes in host-based software solutions designed to safeguard enterprise databases. Founded in 2005 and based in Kfar Saba, Israel, Sentrigo provides real-time monitoring of all database activities, addressing both external threats and insider risks. Its flagship solution, Hedgehog, utilizes a patent-pending agent technology that operates with a minimal footprint, ensuring complete visibility into database interactions without affecting performance. The software features real-time alerting, policy breach reporting, session termination, quarantining, and virtual patching for database management system vulnerabilities. Sentrigo aims to enhance database security by enabling enterprises to effectively track and respond to potential threats.

Sentrigo

Series A in 2007
Sentrigo is a database security company that specializes in host-based software solutions designed to safeguard enterprise databases. Founded in 2005 and based in Kfar Saba, Israel, Sentrigo provides real-time monitoring of all database activities, addressing both external threats and insider risks. Its flagship solution, Hedgehog, utilizes a patent-pending agent technology that operates with a minimal footprint, ensuring complete visibility into database interactions without affecting performance. The software features real-time alerting, policy breach reporting, session termination, quarantining, and virtual patching for database management system vulnerabilities. Sentrigo aims to enhance database security by enabling enterprises to effectively track and respond to potential threats.

Xeround

Series B in 2007
Xeround is a database-as-a-service provider specializing in elastic and scalable solutions for MySQL applications. The company addresses critical database scalability issues arising from the growth of cloud computing and big data, enabling service providers and customers to manage data more effectively. Xeround offers a patented technology that combines the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases with the simplicity and scalability of NoSQL data stores. Its cloud-designed database solution supports multi-tenancy, high availability, auto-scaling, and self-healing features, ensuring continuous service during schema changes and resource modifications. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, and development operations in Israel, Xeround aims to facilitate seamless data management and synchronization across cloud environments.

Metaweb Technologies

Series A in 2006
Metaweb Technologies develops a community-curated database and semantic data storage infrastructure for the web. The company was founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook, and John Giannandrea

Terracotta

Series B in 2006
Terracotta, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Software AG, specializes in in-memory data management solutions tailored for enterprises. Established in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is renowned for its flagship product, BigMemory™, which allows for low latency, in-memory access to data from various sources. This capability enables organizations to process large volumes and diverse types of Big Data significantly faster than traditional methods, enhancing application performance at scale. In addition to BigMemory™, Terracotta offers Enterprise Ehcache, a solution designed to optimize the scalability and performance of enterprise applications.

Xeround

Series A in 2005
Xeround is a database-as-a-service provider specializing in elastic and scalable solutions for MySQL applications. The company addresses critical database scalability issues arising from the growth of cloud computing and big data, enabling service providers and customers to manage data more effectively. Xeround offers a patented technology that combines the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases with the simplicity and scalability of NoSQL data stores. Its cloud-designed database solution supports multi-tenancy, high availability, auto-scaling, and self-healing features, ensuring continuous service during schema changes and resource modifications. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, and development operations in Israel, Xeround aims to facilitate seamless data management and synchronization across cloud environments.

MySQL

Series B in 2003
MySQL is an open-source database company founded in 1995 by David Axmark and Michael Widenius, located in Cupertino, California. It specializes in providing scalable database solutions for web-based and embedded applications. MySQL offers a range of products, including enterprise-level support packages that come with comprehensive service options, alongside free downloads of its latest software versions. The company's online platform features a variety of resources such as forums, articles, documentation, and community support. MySQL's software is designed to enhance scalability, security, reliability, and uptime for businesses, facilitating increased agility and cost reduction through features like network monitoring, production support services, and database clustering architecture for mission-critical deployments.

FilesX

Series A in 2003
FilesX, founded in 2000, specializes in software solutions designed to enhance the recovery of data across diverse storage environments. The company focuses on continuous data protection and offers nearly instant recovery of data and applications for enterprises and remote offices. Its flagship product, Xpress Restore, is a disk-based data recovery solution that ensures rapid access to critical information. In addition to Xpress Restore, FilesX provides remote office protection solutions and archiving application protection to safeguard information archives. The company also offers support services to assist clients in implementing and maintaining these solutions. FilesX was acquired by IBM in April 2008, further expanding its reach and capabilities in the data protection sector.
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