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Benchmark Capital

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Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. The firm’s initial investments typically sit in the $3 million to $5 million range, and over the lifetime of a relationship the firm will often invest $5 million to $15 million in a portfolio company. Investments are generally directed towards technology driven companies in the areas of enterprise software and services, communications and security, semiconductors, mobile computing, consumer services, and financial services in the US and Europe.

Benchmark Capital was founded in 1995 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in Herzliya Pituach, Israel. In 2007, London-based Benchmark Europe became an independent firm, named Balderton Capital.

Milestones

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  Benchmark Capital invested in Eucalyptus Systems. (7/1/10)
  Posted 7/4/10 at 5:57pm via venturebeat.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Metacafe. (6/4/10)
  Posted 6/7/10 at 8:37pm via venturebeat.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Marin Software. (6/2/10)
  Posted 6/3/10 at 6:15pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Gaikai. (5/24/10)
  Posted 5/24/10 at 8:05pm via prnewswire.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Grockit. (5/14/10)
  Posted 5/14/10 at 12:30pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Cotendo. (5/3/10)
  Posted 5/5/10 at 8:08pm via freshnews.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Stitcher. (4/6/10)
  Posted 4/6/10 at 7:11am via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Quora. (3/28/10)
  Posted 3/29/10 at 12:07pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Wix. (3/24/10)
  Posted 3/24/10 at 11:30am via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Avvo. (3/17/10)
  Posted 3/18/10 at 7:15am via techflash.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Scale Computing. (3/2/10)
  Posted 3/2/10 at 1:21pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Clicker. (2/18/10)
  Posted 2/18/10 at 1:02pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in TuneWiki. (2/8/10)
  Posted 2/8/10 at 7:21am via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Prosper. (2/3/10)
  Posted 7/22/10 at 3:04am via americanbankingnews.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Vivox. (2/2/10)
  Posted 2/2/10 at 8:05pm via freshnews.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in BOKU. (1/19/10)
  Posted 1/19/10 at 6:55pm via finsmes.com

Investments

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1. Eucalyptus raises $20M for hybrid cloud computing (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Metacafe lands $5 million for curated movie site (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. Marin Raises Another $11.2 Million For Search Engine Management Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Rustic Canyon Partners, Benchmark Capital, Triplepoint Capital and Mystery Investor Funding $10M+ of the Gaikai Series B (prnewswire.com) [edit]
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Cotendo Closes $12 Million Investment Round (freshnews.com) [edit]
7. Benchmark Helps Web Talk Radio Startup Stitcher Turn Up The Volume By $6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Quora Has The Magic: Benchmark Invests at $86 Million Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Wix Raises $10 Million For Flash Website And Widget Builder (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Online attorney rating service Avvo scores $10 million (techflash.com) [edit]
11. Benchmark, Others Store $9 Million In Scale Computing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Clicker Raises Another $11 Million To Become The TV Guide Of Online Video, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Social Music Player TuneWiki Raises Funding From Motorola Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Prosper Marketplace Announces $2 Million in Bridge Financing as Bankruptcy Fears Loom (americanbankingnews.com) [edit]
15. Vivox Raises $6.8 Million from IDG Ventures and Existing Investors (freshnews.com) [edit]
16. BOKU Raises $25M in Series C Equity Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
17. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
18. Skybox closes $2M to produce risk management software (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
19. Work Management Software Maker Clarizen Raises $8 Million More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. HipLogic Raises $7 Million To Bring Smartphone Intelligence to Mass Market Phones (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Lithium Technologies Raises $18M in Series C Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
22. Silicon Alley Insider (businessinsider.com) [edit]
23. Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Raises $9 million For New Collaboration Startup, Asana (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. TechCrunch [edit]
25. Engine Yard Website (engineyard.com) [edit]
26. Twitter (blog.twitter.com) []
27. Clicker Raises $8M, Launches Video Search Engine (socaltech.com) [edit]
28. Reuters (reuters.com) [edit]
29. All-Sports Directory Fanbase Launches With $5 Million In Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
30. Polyvore Looks Stylin’ In This New $5.6 Million Round Of Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. New Products Announced as Peter Fenton joins Board (PR) (blog.zendesk.com) [edit]
32. Personal Finance Startup Mint Raises $14 Million (techcrunch.com) []
33. Panaya Secures $5 Million in Series B Funding (panayainc.com) [edit]
34. Citation Needed [add]
35. GreenRoad raises $15M for safe driving technology (venturebeat.com) [edit]
36. Eucalyptus Systems raises $5.5M for a hybrid approach to cloud computing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
37. Marin Software Closes $13 Million Series C Financing (prweb.com) [edit]
38. Direct2Silicon nabs $9M to lower cost of chip production (venturebeat.com) [edit]
39. Citation Needed [add]
40. CDN Upstart Cotendo Launches, Gets More Cash (businessinsider.com) [edit]
41. System-on-a-chip software co. Direct2Silicon takes $7.2M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
42. Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others (techcrunch.com) []
43. Capital Report Index [edit]
44. Expanding RightScale with $13M new funding (blog.rightscale.com) [edit]
45. Finjan Raises $22 Million in Investment Round (finjan.com) [edit]
46. New Relic Raises $6 Million For Rails Performance Monitoring (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
48. VentureBeat (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
50. Terracotta raises $10M for Java tools (venturebeat.com) [edit]
51. Citation Needed [add]
52. techcrunch.com []
53. GreenRoad Technologies raises $3M for fuel economy and driver safety technology (venturebeat.com) [edit]
54. Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark (brainspl.at) [edit]
55. Riot Games Secures $7 Million From Benchmark Capital And FirstMark Capital (paidcontent.org) [edit]
56. Investors Circle Xeround. (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
57. CTERA’s CloudPlug takes a hybrid approach to storage (venturebeat.com) [edit]
58. SpringSource Announces $15mln Series B Round of Financing (springsource.com) [edit]
59. Cap Funding Report [edit]
60. techcrunch.com [edit]
61. techcrunchit.com [edit]
62. Stealth educational startup Grockit raises $8M more (venturebeat.com) [edit]
63. venturebeat.com [edit]
64. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
65. RightScale Raises $4.5 Million from Benchmark Capital (rightscale.com) [edit]
66. Online video services company Move Networks raises $46 million (venturebeat.com) [edit]
67. Search Engine Marketing Firms Continue to Raise Funding - Kenshoo and Marin Software (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
68. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
69. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
70. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
71. Gizmoz Raises $6.5 Million (uk.reuters.com) [edit]
72. Sociable (sociableblog.com) [edit]
73. Widget Distribution, Tracking Service Gigya Raises $9.5 Million (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
74. Citation Needed []
75. Funding Source [edit]
76. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
77. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
78. Pentaho raises $12M for open source “business intelligence” software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
79. company press release (numobiq.com) [edit]
80. Coverity raises $22M to get the flaws out of your code (venturebeat.com) [edit]
81. MetaWeb Gets $42 Million Second Round For Online Database (paidcontent.org) [edit]
82. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
83. Cap Funding Report [edit]
84. pehub.com [edit]
85. techcrunch.com [edit]
86. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
87. Citation Needed [add]
88. Vivox, voice chat for virtual worlds, raises $7.8M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
89. Mobile Funding: 2 More Deals (metue.com) [edit]
90. BroadLight, optical communications co, raises $12M more. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
91. Qlusters Raises Third Round (linux.sys-con.com) [edit]
92. home.businesswire.com [edit]
93. Xoomsys Raises $8 Million in Series B Venture Capital Funding (vcgate.com) [edit]
94. Why Did We Raise $10mln (blog.springsource.com) [edit]
95. Open source system management software Hyperic raises $6.1M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
96. Citation Needed [add]
97. Grockit raises $2.3M for online test preparation (venturebeat.com) [edit]
98. Benchmark Capital Invests $8 Million in Power Challenge, the Leading Online Sports Games Company (corporate.powerchallenge.com) [edit]
99. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
100. Sentrigo Raises $3.5 Million in First Round - Woburn, MA. (nevcfunding.blogspot.com) [edit]
101. techcrunch.com [edit]
102. AllThingsD (kara.allthingsd.com) [edit]
103. Cap Funding Report [edit]
104. seattlepi.nwsource.com [edit]
105. Digital Fuel receives a $5 million investment (dealipedia.com) [edit]
106. Digital Fuel, a service level agreement co., raises $5M mor (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
107. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
108. Citation Needed [add]
109. Benchmark backs LiveOps $28M round (benchmark.com) [edit]
110. Zlango Update: BenchMark and Accel Invest $12 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
111. ScanSafe VentureBeat Profile (venturebeatprofiles.com) [edit]
112. Citation Needed [add]
113. Citation Needed [add]
114. Cap Funding Report [edit]
115. Red 5 Studios gets $18.5 million in VC funding (news.cnet.com) [edit]
116. Clarizen Secures $7 Million in First-Round Funding Co-Led by Benchmark Capital and Carmel Ventures (clarizen.com) [edit]
117. Newport Media Closes $30 million Series C Financing (newportmediainc.com) [edit]
118. UShip Inks $5M Round For Shipping & Moving Marketplace (benchmark.com) [edit]
119. Spodradio, a radio and podcast “hub,” gets $10M from Benchmark (venturebeat.com) [edit]
120. Resolute Networks Raises $10 Million (resolutenetworks.com) [edit]
121. Mint Capital announces investment agreement with Benchmark Capital Europe for further development of Elecsnet (mintcap.ru) [edit]
122. venturebeat.com [edit]
123. odesk.com [edit]
124. benchmark.com [edit]
125. startupsquad.com [edit]
126. Cap Funding Report [edit]
127. Carrier IQ, which tracks data about a mobile phone user's experience, has raised $10M (siliconbeat.com) [edit]
128. news.com []
129. benchmark.com [edit]
130. Mu Security Lands $10M (lightreading.com) [edit]
131. BridgeCo Raises $23M in Latest Venture Finance Round (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
132. Citation Needed [add]
133. nanosolar.com [edit]
134. Friendster raises $3.1 million; Good man Siegelman stepped in (siliconbeat.com) []
135. http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/06/27/hyperic-raises-funding-part-2/ (blogs.the451group.com) [edit]
136. Panaya Raises $5 Million in First Round Financing From Benchmark Capital and Gemini Israel Funds (panayainc.com) [edit]
137. Raza Microelectronics, Inc. Secures $20 Million in Strategic Venture Funding (rmicorp.com) [edit]
138. zimbra.com [edit]
139. Skybox Secutrity (skyboxsecurity.com) [edit]
140. Proofpoint Closes $20 Million Financing Round (proofpoint.com) [edit]
141. Icera adds a further $40M in funding (icerasemi.com) [edit]
142. thealarmclock.com [edit]
143. 'Second Life' scores $11 million in funding (news.com) [edit]
144. Citation Needed [add]
145. Cap Funding Report [edit]
146. Newport Media Closes $25 Million Funding Round Led By Oak Investment Partners (ezinfofind.com) [edit]
147. Finjan Raises $10 Million in Investment Round (finjan.com) [edit]
148. Cap Funding Report [edit]
149. Citation Needed [add]
150. Silver Peak Secures $13 Million in Series B Financing (silver-peak.com) [edit]
151. TechCrunch UK (uk.techcrunch.com) []
152. techcrunch.com [edit]
153. Silver Peak Gets $12.5M (lightreading.com) [edit]
154. CollabNet receives $9.5 million in private financing (open.collab.net) [edit]
155. Mobile satellite antennae co RaySat raises $27m (investorshub.advfn.com) [edit]
156. paidcontent.org [edit]
157. Entrisphere Scores $75M Round (lightreading.com) [edit]
158. nanosolar.com [edit]
159. Citation Needed [add]
160. Cap Funding report [edit]
161. Citation Needed [add]
162. Cap Funding Report [edit]
163. Cap Funding Report [edit]
164. Mu Security Lands $10M (lightreading.com) [edit]
165. Second Life Boosted with $8 Million in New Financing; Linden Lab and Benchmark Capital Aim for the Metaverse (allbusiness.com) [edit]
166. Blazent adds $10M in funding (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
167. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
168. Citation Needed []
169. mysql.com [edit]
170. Cohesiant bonds with $9.2M funding round (sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com) [edit]
171. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
172. SEC D Amended (sec.gov) [edit]
173. opentable.com [edit]
174. Red Herring (redherring.com) [edit]
175. opentable.com [edit]
176. The Case for the Fat Startup (bhorowitz.com) [edit]