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 Database

Timescale

Series C in 2022
Timescale is a modern cloud platform built on PostgreSQL, specializing in time-series data, events, and analytics. It provides an open-source SQL database designed to handle large-scale data and complex queries, making it particularly suited for applications involving the Internet of Things (IoT). By integrating directly into the query planner and execution engine, Timescale enhances performance through advanced distributed query optimizations. This enables users to effectively organize, store, analyze, and derive insights from time-series and machine data. With a global workforce and strong backing from prominent investors, Timescale aims to empower software developers and businesses around the world to innovate in computing.

ClickHouse

Series B in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system specifically designed for online analytical processing (OLAP). It enables users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, leveraging its unique architecture that offers compact storage and enhanced processing performance. The column-oriented design minimizes redundant data, optimizing CPU efficiency and contributing to ClickHouse's remarkable speed. The system is capable of handling extensive datasets efficiently, processing large volumes of rows and gigabytes of data swiftly while maintaining reduced storage requirements. This makes ClickHouse a reliable, scalable solution for enterprises seeking to streamline their data processing and improve query performance for analytical purposes.

ClickHouse

Series A in 2021
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented database management system specifically designed for online analytical processing (OLAP). It enables users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, leveraging its unique architecture that offers compact storage and enhanced processing performance. The column-oriented design minimizes redundant data, optimizing CPU efficiency and contributing to ClickHouse's remarkable speed. The system is capable of handling extensive datasets efficiently, processing large volumes of rows and gigabytes of data swiftly while maintaining reduced storage requirements. This makes ClickHouse a reliable, scalable solution for enterprises seeking to streamline their data processing and improve query performance for analytical purposes.

Timescale

Series B in 2021
Timescale is a modern cloud platform built on PostgreSQL, specializing in time-series data, events, and analytics. It provides an open-source SQL database designed to handle large-scale data and complex queries, making it particularly suited for applications involving the Internet of Things (IoT). By integrating directly into the query planner and execution engine, Timescale enhances performance through advanced distributed query optimizations. This enables users to effectively organize, store, analyze, and derive insights from time-series and machine data. With a global workforce and strong backing from prominent investors, Timescale aims to empower software developers and businesses around the world to innovate in computing.

Cockroach Labs

Series E in 2021
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a developer of open-source database software, primarily known for its distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company provides a cloud-native platform designed for modern application development. CockroachDB allows organizations to build scalable applications that can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, with minimal disruption and no manual intervention. The database supports strongly consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data manipulation and querying. Its software is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries, providing enterprise-grade disaster recovery services and enabling rapid development without compromising on consistency.

Airtable

Series D in 2020
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that provides an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases. The platform is designed to democratize software creation, allowing users to build custom applications tailored to their needs without requiring coding expertise. Airtable facilitates the development of flexible checklists, the organization of collections or ideas, and the management of customer contacts. It also offers a diverse range of templates, covering areas such as home improvement and inventory management, which help users efficiently structure their projects and workflows.

Cockroach Labs

Series D in 2020
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a developer of open-source database software, primarily known for its distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company provides a cloud-native platform designed for modern application development. CockroachDB allows organizations to build scalable applications that can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, with minimal disruption and no manual intervention. The database supports strongly consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data manipulation and querying. Its software is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries, providing enterprise-grade disaster recovery services and enabling rapid development without compromising on consistency.

Cockroach Labs

Series C in 2019
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a developer of open-source database software, primarily known for its distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company provides a cloud-native platform designed for modern application development. CockroachDB allows organizations to build scalable applications that can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, with minimal disruption and no manual intervention. The database supports strongly consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data manipulation and querying. Its software is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries, providing enterprise-grade disaster recovery services and enabling rapid development without compromising on consistency.

Timescale

Series A in 2019
Timescale is a modern cloud platform built on PostgreSQL, specializing in time-series data, events, and analytics. It provides an open-source SQL database designed to handle large-scale data and complex queries, making it particularly suited for applications involving the Internet of Things (IoT). By integrating directly into the query planner and execution engine, Timescale enhances performance through advanced distributed query optimizations. This enables users to effectively organize, store, analyze, and derive insights from time-series and machine data. With a global workforce and strong backing from prominent investors, Timescale aims to empower software developers and businesses around the world to innovate in computing.

Airtable

Series C in 2018
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that provides an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases. The platform is designed to democratize software creation, allowing users to build custom applications tailored to their needs without requiring coding expertise. Airtable facilitates the development of flexible checklists, the organization of collections or ideas, and the management of customer contacts. It also offers a diverse range of templates, covering areas such as home improvement and inventory management, which help users efficiently structure their projects and workflows.

Cockroach Labs

Series B in 2017
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a developer of open-source database software, primarily known for its distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company provides a cloud-native platform designed for modern application development. CockroachDB allows organizations to build scalable applications that can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, with minimal disruption and no manual intervention. The database supports strongly consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data manipulation and querying. Its software is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries, providing enterprise-grade disaster recovery services and enabling rapid development without compromising on consistency.

Cockroach Labs

Series A in 2016
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a developer of open-source database software, primarily known for its distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company provides a cloud-native platform designed for modern application development. CockroachDB allows organizations to build scalable applications that can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, with minimal disruption and no manual intervention. The database supports strongly consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data manipulation and querying. Its software is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries, providing enterprise-grade disaster recovery services and enabling rapid development without compromising on consistency.

Cockroach Labs

Series A in 2015
Cockroach Labs, Inc. is a developer of open-source database software, primarily known for its distributed SQL database, CockroachDB. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company provides a cloud-native platform designed for modern application development. CockroachDB allows organizations to build scalable applications that can withstand various types of failures, including those at the disk, machine, rack, and datacenter levels, with minimal disruption and no manual intervention. The database supports strongly consistent ACID transactions and offers an SQL API for data manipulation and querying. Its software is utilized by a diverse range of customers, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, across various industries, providing enterprise-grade disaster recovery services and enabling rapid development without compromising on consistency.

Xeround

Series C in 2011
Xeround is an elastic, always-on database-as-a-service for your MySQL applications. * Scalability & Elasticity - Scale up or out automatically * Maintain High Availability * Available for both public and private clouds With the rise of cloud computing and “big data”, database scalability issues are becoming critical to the growth and success of many applications. Xeround's vision is to enable truly scalable and elastic cloud computing infrastructure by providing the missing piece: elastic data management within a cloud and data federation across clouds. Service providers, ISVs and customers in the cloud ecosystem encounter various database challenges including the need for elastic usage, slow response times, and data synchronization. Xeround’s patented technology brings a new approach to data management in the cloud, providing both the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases, along with the simplicity and scalability as of NoSQL data stores. Designed and Architected for the cloud, Xeround’s database solution effectively manages multi-tenancy, high-availability, auto-scaling and self-healing, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with development in Israel. It is funded by Benchmark Capital, Ignition Partners, Trilogy Partnership and Giza Venture Capital.

Sentrigo

Series C in 2010
Sentrigo is a database security company, providing host-based software solutions that protect enterprise databases by monitoring all activity in the database in real-time, providing alerts, audit trail and automatic intrusion prevention capabilities. Sentrigo's solution, called Hedgehog, is a patent-pending agent technology that uses a very small footprint non-intrusive agent that has complete visibility into all database activity, whether it is originated by outsiders or privileged insiders, and does so without impacting database performance. Sentrigo Ltd. was formerly known as Monolith Security and changed its name to Sentrigo Ltd. in 2007. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Terracotta

Venture Round in 2008
Terracotta, Inc., a subsidiary of Software AG, specializes in in-memory data management solutions designed for enterprise applications. Established in 2003 and based in San Francisco, the company is renowned for its flagship product, BigMemory™, which allows for low-latency, in-memory access to data from diverse sources. This technology enables customers to process substantial volumes and a wide variety of Big Data significantly faster than traditional methods, enhancing application performance at any scale. Additionally, Terracotta offers Enterprise Ehcache, a solution aimed at improving the scalability and performance of enterprise applications.

Xeround

Series B in 2008
Xeround is an elastic, always-on database-as-a-service for your MySQL applications. * Scalability & Elasticity - Scale up or out automatically * Maintain High Availability * Available for both public and private clouds With the rise of cloud computing and “big data”, database scalability issues are becoming critical to the growth and success of many applications. Xeround's vision is to enable truly scalable and elastic cloud computing infrastructure by providing the missing piece: elastic data management within a cloud and data federation across clouds. Service providers, ISVs and customers in the cloud ecosystem encounter various database challenges including the need for elastic usage, slow response times, and data synchronization. Xeround’s patented technology brings a new approach to data management in the cloud, providing both the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases, along with the simplicity and scalability as of NoSQL data stores. Designed and Architected for the cloud, Xeround’s database solution effectively manages multi-tenancy, high-availability, auto-scaling and self-healing, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with development in Israel. It is funded by Benchmark Capital, Ignition Partners, Trilogy Partnership and Giza Venture Capital.

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, providing host-based software solutions that protect enterprise databases by monitoring all activity in the database in real-time, providing alerts, audit trail and automatic intrusion prevention capabilities. Sentrigo's solution, called Hedgehog, is a patent-pending agent technology that uses a very small footprint non-intrusive agent that has complete visibility into all database activity, whether it is originated by outsiders or privileged insiders, and does so without impacting database performance. Sentrigo Ltd. was formerly known as Monolith Security and changed its name to Sentrigo Ltd. in 2007. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Sentrigo

Series A in 2007
Sentrigo is a database security company, providing host-based software solutions that protect enterprise databases by monitoring all activity in the database in real-time, providing alerts, audit trail and automatic intrusion prevention capabilities. Sentrigo's solution, called Hedgehog, is a patent-pending agent technology that uses a very small footprint non-intrusive agent that has complete visibility into all database activity, whether it is originated by outsiders or privileged insiders, and does so without impacting database performance. Sentrigo Ltd. was formerly known as Monolith Security and changed its name to Sentrigo Ltd. in 2007. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Xeround

Series B in 2007
Xeround is an elastic, always-on database-as-a-service for your MySQL applications. * Scalability & Elasticity - Scale up or out automatically * Maintain High Availability * Available for both public and private clouds With the rise of cloud computing and “big data”, database scalability issues are becoming critical to the growth and success of many applications. Xeround's vision is to enable truly scalable and elastic cloud computing infrastructure by providing the missing piece: elastic data management within a cloud and data federation across clouds. Service providers, ISVs and customers in the cloud ecosystem encounter various database challenges including the need for elastic usage, slow response times, and data synchronization. Xeround’s patented technology brings a new approach to data management in the cloud, providing both the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases, along with the simplicity and scalability as of NoSQL data stores. Designed and Architected for the cloud, Xeround’s database solution effectively manages multi-tenancy, high-availability, auto-scaling and self-healing, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with development in Israel. It is funded by Benchmark Capital, Ignition Partners, Trilogy Partnership and Giza Venture Capital.

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 subsidiary of Software AG, specializes in in-memory data management solutions designed for enterprise applications. Established in 2003 and based in San Francisco, the company is renowned for its flagship product, BigMemory™, which allows for low-latency, in-memory access to data from diverse sources. This technology enables customers to process substantial volumes and a wide variety of Big Data significantly faster than traditional methods, enhancing application performance at any scale. Additionally, Terracotta offers Enterprise Ehcache, a solution aimed at improving the scalability and performance of enterprise applications.

Xeround

Series A in 2005
Xeround is an elastic, always-on database-as-a-service for your MySQL applications. * Scalability & Elasticity - Scale up or out automatically * Maintain High Availability * Available for both public and private clouds With the rise of cloud computing and “big data”, database scalability issues are becoming critical to the growth and success of many applications. Xeround's vision is to enable truly scalable and elastic cloud computing infrastructure by providing the missing piece: elastic data management within a cloud and data federation across clouds. Service providers, ISVs and customers in the cloud ecosystem encounter various database challenges including the need for elastic usage, slow response times, and data synchronization. Xeround’s patented technology brings a new approach to data management in the cloud, providing both the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases, along with the simplicity and scalability as of NoSQL data stores. Designed and Architected for the cloud, Xeround’s database solution effectively manages multi-tenancy, high-availability, auto-scaling and self-healing, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with development in Israel. It is funded by Benchmark Capital, Ignition Partners, Trilogy Partnership and Giza Venture Capital.

MySQL

Series B in 2003
MySQL is an open-source database management system that enables scalable web-based and embedded applications. Founded in 1995 by David Axmark and Michael Widenius, the company is headquartered in Cupertino, California. MySQL offers a range of products, including enterprise-level support packages that provide comprehensive service and free downloads of its latest software versions. The platform also features an online community with forums, articles, and documentation to support users. MySQL’s software is designed to enhance scalability, security, reliability, and uptime for businesses, while its enterprise servers facilitate network monitoring and production support. Additionally, the database clustering architecture allows clients to implement mission-critical solutions, thereby improving business agility and reducing operational costs.
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