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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.

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.

The firm has been recognized for its commitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. General partners include Alex Balkanski, Matt Cohler, Bruce Dunlevie, Peter Fenton, Bill Gurley, Kevin Harvey, Bob Kagle, Mitch Lasky and Steve Spurlock.

Benchmark Capital has invested in more than 150 startups since its inception and manages nearly $3 billion in committed capital. Investments include AOL, eBay, Ariba, Juniper Networks, Red Hat, Tropos Networks, Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, Second Life, Tellme Networks, Yelp, Inc., CTERA Networks, Lithium Technologies, Zillow, 1-800-Flowers, Ebags.com, Friendster, JAMDAT, MetaCafe, Palm Computing, and Seeking Alpha.

In December 2004, Benchmark Capital invested $10 million in ServiceSource. The company’s shares rose 21.8 percent following its March 2011 IPO. Benchmark Capital provided Zipcar’s first institutional round of funding of $10 million in January 2005. During Zipcar’s April 2011 IPO, shares rose 67 percent and closed with a 56 percent gain on the first day of trading.

Benchmark Capital participated in Twitter’s $35 million Series C funding in February 2009 and its $100 million Series D funding in September 2009. The venture capital firm led Zendesk’s $6 million Series B funding in August 2009 and participated in its $19 million Series C funding in December 2010. More recently, Benchmark Capital participated in Instagram’s $7 million Series A funding and Uber’s $11 million funding round, both in February 2011.

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  Benchmark Capital invested in Enverv. (12/19/11)
  Posted 12/19/11 at 7:40pm via xconomy.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Xeround. (12/14/11)
  Posted 12/14/11 at 6:21pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Edmodo. (12/8/11)
  Posted 12/8/11 at 5:04am via reuters.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Uber. (12/7/11)
  Posted 12/7/11 at 3:50am via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Klip. (11/18/11)
  Posted 11/18/11 at 4:54pm via klip.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Zuora. (11/16/11)
  Posted 11/16/11 at 6:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in New Relic. (11/16/11)
  Posted 11/16/11 at 6:07pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Minted. (11/15/11)
  Posted 11/15/11 at 6:33pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in GrubHub. (9/20/11)
  Posted 11/7/11 at 2:26pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in 1stdibs. (11/3/11)
  Posted 11/3/11 at 8:29pm via finsmes.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Dropbox. (10/18/11)
  Posted 8/30/11 at 11:27pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Grockit. (10/17/11)
  Posted 10/17/11 at 5:36pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Stitcher. (9/21/11)
  Posted 9/21/11 at 7:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in Red Robot Labs. (9/14/11)
  Posted 9/14/11 at 4:59am via venturebeat.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in One Medical Group. (9/2/11)
  Posted 9/5/11 at 5:55am via techcrunch.com
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  Benchmark Capital invested in One Medical Group. (1/1/09)
  Posted 9/2/11 at 5:03pm via techcrunch.com

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1. Benchmark Capital Takes Stake In Brazil’s Peixe Urbano (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Benchmark Capital Raising $425M Seventh Fund (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
3. EnVerv Raises $12 Million to Advance Power Line Communications Chips (xconomy.com) [edit]
4. Cloud Database Startup Xeround Raises $9.3M From Benchmark And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Edmodo, LinkedIn for schools, raises $15 million for its network (blogs.reuters.com) [edit]
6. Uber Gets $32M From Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos And Goldman Sachs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Klip closes $8M Series B round led by Benchmark Capital (blog.klip.com) [edit]
8. Subscription Billings Platform Zuora Nabs $36M From Index, Greylock At $300M-Plus Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Cloud App Management Platform New Relic Raises $15M From DAG, Benchmark (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Benchmark, Marissa Mayer Put $5.5M In Stationery Design And Retail Site Minted (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. 1stdibs Receives Investment from Benchmark Capital (finsmes.com) [edit]
12. Dropbox Raises $250M In Funding, Boasts 45 Million Users (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Grockit Gets A $7 Million Venture Infusion And Launches Video Q&A Site Grockit Answers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. New Enterprise, Benchmark, Ron Conway And More Pour $10 Million Into Web Talk Radio Startup Stitcher (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Food Delivery Search Engine GrubHub Raises $50M, Buys Campusfood And Allmenus (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Red Robot Labs raises $8.5M for location-based mobile gaming (venturebeat.com) [edit]
17. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Game Closure Quietly Raises Seed Round From SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Greylock, And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. CouchSurfing Raises $7.6 M; Will Users Cry “Sell Out”? (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Brighter Lands $8 Million From Benchmark To Bring Affordable Dental Care To The Masses (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Citation Needed [add]
22. Cloud-Based Game Streaming Service Gaikai Raises $30M From Qualcomm, NEA And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. Series A Whopper: Benchmark Invests $33M in New BI Company Domo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Cloud Technology Startup Cotendo Raises $17 Million From Citrix, Juniper, VCs (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
25. Clarizen Raises $12 Million For Project Management Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. CloudPassage Raises $6.5 Million For Cloud Server Security Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. Marin Software Raises $16 Million For Paid Search Management Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Exclusive: Flashy Website Creator Wix Raises $40 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. Tabula Secures $108 Million in the Largest Round Awarded to a Private Semiconductor Company Over the Last Decade (tabula.com) [edit]
30. Open PaaS DotCloud Raises $10M From Benchmark And Trinity, Jerry Yang Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Exclusive: Food Delivery Search Engine GrubHub Raises $20 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. ccLoop Announces Series A Funding (ccloop.com) [edit]
33. Huge Vote Of Confidence: Uber Raises $11 million From Benchmark Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. Instagram Raises $7M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. Deals & More: Scenechronize scores $5M to streamline film production, GlobalTranz raises $10M for goods transport (venturebeat.com) [edit]
37. techcrunch.com [edit]
38. Sentrigo Secures $6M in Series C Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
39. Help Desk Software Developer Zendesk Raises $19 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. Zuora Raises $20M in Series C Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
41. GrubHub Raises $11 Million To Continue To Innovate and Grow (techcocktail.com) [edit]
42. New Relic Gets Another $10M, Proves SaaS Profitability (cloud.gigaom.com) [edit]
43. RightScale Closes $25M Third Venture Financing Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
44. ResearchGATE Closes Series A Funding for Social Media Site for (findarticles.com) [edit]
45. Atheros teams with Wilocity; leading $20m round (globes.co.il) [edit]
46. Eucalyptus raises $20M for hybrid cloud computing (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
47. Metacafe lands $5 million for curated movie site (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
48. Marin Raises Another $11.2 Million For Search Engine Management Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Rustic Canyon Partners, Benchmark Capital, Triplepoint Capital and Mystery Investor Funding $10M+ of the Gaikai Series B (prnewswire.com) [edit]
50. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
51. Cotendo Closes $12 Million Investment Round (freshnews.com) [edit]
52. Benchmark Helps Web Talk Radio Startup Stitcher Turn Up The Volume By $6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. Quora Has The Magic: Benchmark Invests at $86 Million Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
54. Wix Raises $10 Million For Flash Website And Widget Builder (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. Online attorney rating service Avvo scores $10 million (techflash.com) [edit]
56. Benchmark, Others Store $9 Million In Scale Computing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
57. Clicker Raises Another $11 Million To Become The TV Guide Of Online Video, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
58. Social Music Player TuneWiki Raises Funding From Motorola Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
59. Prosper Marketplace Announces $2 Million in Bridge Financing as Bankruptcy Fears Loom (americanbankingnews.com) [edit]
60. Vivox Raises $6.8 Million from IDG Ventures and Existing Investors (freshnews.com) [edit]
61. Page Sharing Service BO.LT Lets You Copy, Edit, Share Almost Any Web Page (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. BOKU Raises $25M in Series C Equity Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
63. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
64. Skybox closes $2M to produce risk management software (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
65. Work Management Software Maker Clarizen Raises $8 Million More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
66. HipLogic Raises $7 Million To Bring Smartphone Intelligence to Mass Market Phones (techcrunch.com) [edit]
67. Lithium Technologies Raises $18M in Series C Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
68. Silicon Alley Insider (businessinsider.com) [edit]
69. Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Raises $9 million For New Collaboration Startup, Asana (techcrunch.com) [edit]
70. TechCrunch [edit]
71. Engine Yard Website (engineyard.com) [edit]
72. Twitter (blog.twitter.com) []
73. Clicker Raises $8M, Launches Video Search Engine (socaltech.com) [edit]
74. Reuters (reuters.com) [edit]
75. All-Sports Directory Fanbase Launches With $5 Million In Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
76. Polyvore Looks Stylin’ In This New $5.6 Million Round Of Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
77. New Products Announced as Peter Fenton joins Board (PR) (blog.zendesk.com) [edit]
78. Personal Finance Startup Mint Raises $14 Million (techcrunch.com) []
79. Panaya Secures $5 Million in Series B Funding (panayainc.com) [edit]
80. BOKU Receives $13M Funding From Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures (boku.com) [edit]
81. GreenRoad raises $15M for safe driving technology (venturebeat.com) [edit]
82. Eucalyptus Systems raises $5.5M for a hybrid approach to cloud computing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
83. Marin Software Closes $13 Million Series C Financing (prweb.com) [edit]
84. Direct2Silicon nabs $9M to lower cost of chip production (venturebeat.com) [edit]
85. Citation Needed [add]
86. System-on-a-chip software co. Direct2Silicon takes $7.2M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
87. CDN Upstart Cotendo Launches, Gets More Cash (businessinsider.com) [edit]
88. Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP, Others (techcrunch.com) []
89. Capital Report Index [edit]
90. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
91. Expanding RightScale with $13M new funding (blog.rightscale.com) [edit]
92. Finjan Raises $22 Million in Investment Round (finjan.com) [edit]
93. New Relic Raises $6 Million For Rails Performance Monitoring (techcrunch.com) [edit]
94. VentureBeat (techcrunch.com) [edit]
95. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
96. Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
97. Terracotta raises $10M for Java tools (venturebeat.com) [edit]
98. Citation Needed [add]
99. techcrunch.com []
100. GreenRoad Technologies raises $3M for fuel economy and driver safety technology (venturebeat.com) [edit]
101. Engine Yard takes $15mill Series B Round from NEA, Amazon and Benchmark (brainspl.at) [edit]
102. Investors Circle Xeround. (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
103. CTERA’s CloudPlug takes a hybrid approach to storage (venturebeat.com) [edit]
104. SpringSource Announces $15mln Series B Round of Financing (springsource.com) [edit]
105. Cap Funding Report [edit]
106. techcrunch.com [edit]
107. techcrunchit.com [edit]
108. Stealth educational startup Grockit raises $8M more (venturebeat.com) [edit]
109. venturebeat.com [edit]
110. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
111. RightScale Raises $4.5 Million from Benchmark Capital (rightscale.com) [edit]
112. Online video services company Move Networks raises $46 million (venturebeat.com) [edit]
113. Search Engine Marketing Firms Continue to Raise Funding - Kenshoo and Marin Software (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
114. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
115. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
116. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
117. Gizmoz Raises $6.5 Million (uk.reuters.com) [edit]
118. Sociable (sociableblog.com) [edit]
119. Widget Distribution, Tracking Service Gigya Raises $9.5 Million (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
120. Citation Needed []
121. Funding Source (gigaom.com) [edit]
122. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) []
123. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
124. Pentaho raises $12M for open source “business intelligence” software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
125. company press release (numobiq.com) [edit]
126. Coverity raises $22M to get the flaws out of your code (venturebeat.com) [edit]
127. MetaWeb Gets $42 Million Second Round For Online Database (paidcontent.org) [edit]
128. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
129. techcrunch.com [edit]
130. TechCrunch [edit]
131. Cap Funding Report [edit]
132. pehub.com [edit]
133. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
134. Citation Needed [add]
135. Vivox, voice chat for virtual worlds, raises $7.8M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
136. Mobile Funding: 2 More Deals (metue.com) [edit]
137. BroadLight, optical communications co, raises $12M more. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
138. Qlusters Raises Third Round (linux.sys-con.com) [edit]
139. home.businesswire.com [edit]
140. Xoomsys Raises $8 Million in Series B Venture Capital Funding (vcgate.com) [edit]
141. Why Did We Raise $10mln (blog.springsource.com) [edit]
142. Open source system management software Hyperic raises $6.1M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
143. Citation Needed [add]
144. Grockit raises $2.3M for online test preparation (venturebeat.com) [edit]
145. Benchmark Capital Invests $8 Million in Power Challenge, the Leading Online Sports Games Company (corporate.powerchallenge.com) [edit]
146. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
147. Sentrigo Raises $3.5 Million in First Round - Woburn, MA. (nevcfunding.blogspot.com) [edit]
148. techcrunch.com [edit]
149. AllThingsD (kara.allthingsd.com) [edit]
150. Cap Funding Report [edit]
151. seattlepi.nwsource.com [edit]
152. Digital Fuel receives a $5 million investment (dealipedia.com) [edit]
153. Digital Fuel, a service level agreement co., raises $5M mor (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
154. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
155. Citation Needed [add]
156. Benchmark backs LiveOps $28M round (benchmark.com) [edit]
157. Zlango Update: BenchMark and Accel Invest $12 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
158. ScanSafe VentureBeat Profile (venturebeatprofiles.com) [edit]
159. Citation Needed [add]
160. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
161. Cap Funding Report [edit]
162. Citation Needed [add]
163. Red 5 Studios gets $18.5 million in VC funding (news.cnet.com) [edit]
164. Clarizen Secures $7 Million in First-Round Funding Co-Led by Benchmark Capital and Carmel Ventures (clarizen.com) [edit]
165. Global Car Sharing Leader Launches Service in London and Announces $25 Million in New Funding (globespancapital.com) [edit]
166. Newport Media Closes $30 million Series C Financing (newportmediainc.com) [edit]
167. UShip Inks $5M Round For Shipping & Moving Marketplace (benchmark.com) [edit]
168. Spodradio, a radio and podcast “hub,” gets $10M from Benchmark (venturebeat.com) [edit]
169. Resolute Networks Raises $10 Million (resolutenetworks.com) [edit]
170. Mint Capital announces investment agreement with Benchmark Capital Europe for further development of Elecsnet (mintcap.ru) [edit]
171. venturebeat.com [edit]
172. odesk.com [edit]
173. startupsquad.com [edit]
174. benchmark.com [edit]
175. Cap Funding Report [edit]
176. Carrier IQ, which tracks data about a mobile phone user's experience, has raised $10M (siliconbeat.com) [edit]
177. news.com []
178. DisplayLink RAISES $13.25 MILLION SERIES B AS ESPRIT CAPITAL PARTNERS JOIN ATLAS VENTURE AND BENCHMARK CAPITAL (displaylink.com) [edit]
179. benchmark.com [edit]
180. Mu Security Lands $10M (lightreading.com) [edit]
181. BridgeCo Raises $23M in Latest Venture Finance Round (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
182. nanosolar.com [edit]
183. Citation Needed [add]
184. Friendster raises $3.1 million; Good man Siegelman stepped in (siliconbeat.com) []
185. http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2006/06/27/hyperic-raises-funding-part-2/ (blogs.the451group.com) [edit]
186. Orchestria Secures $21 Million In Funding To Extend Market Leadership (ferris.com) [edit]
187. Panaya Raises $5 Million in First Round Financing From Benchmark Capital and Gemini Israel Funds (panayainc.com) [edit]
188. Raza Microelectronics, Inc. Secures $20 Million in Strategic Venture Funding (rmicorp.com) [edit]
189. zimbra.com [edit]
190. Skybox Secutrity (skyboxsecurity.com) [edit]
191. Proofpoint Closes $20 Million Financing Round (proofpoint.com) [edit]
192. Icera adds a further $40M in funding (icerasemi.com) [edit]
193. venturebeat.com [edit]
194. Citation Needed [add]
195. 'Second Life' scores $11 million in funding (news.com) [edit]
196. Cap Funding Report [edit]
197. Newport Media Closes $25 Million Funding Round Led By Oak Investment Partners (ezinfofind.com) [edit]
198. Finjan Raises $10 Million in Investment Round (finjan.com) [edit]
199. Cap Funding Report [edit]
200. Citation Needed [add]
201. Silver Peak Secures $13 Million in Series B Financing (silver-peak.com) [edit]
202. TechCrunch UK (uk.techcrunch.com) []
203. Cap Funding Report [edit]
204. Kalido Raises $13.5 Million to Fund Continued Growth. (allbusiness.com) [edit]
205. techcrunch.com [edit]
206. Cap Funding Report [edit]
207. Silver Peak Gets $12.5M (lightreading.com) [edit]
208. CollabNet receives $9.5 million in private financing (open.collab.net) [edit]
209. Funding Source [edit]
210. MonoSphere's Back in New 'Capacity' (networkcomputing.com) [edit]
211. DisplayLink secures $8m Series B financing (displaylink.com) [edit]
212. Mobile satellite antennae co RaySat raises $27m (investorshub.advfn.com) [edit]
213. paidcontent.org [edit]
214. Entrisphere Scores $75M Round (lightreading.com) [edit]
215. nanosolar.com [edit]
216. Blue Security's Anti-Spam Community (isp-planet.com) [edit]
217. Citation Needed [add]
218. Cap Funding Report [edit]
219. SAN FRANCISCO--- VONTU INCREASES TOTAL FUNDING TO $25M WITH ADDITIONAL $10M IN THIRD ROUND THAT INCLUDES GM CAPITAL PARTNERS (freshnews.com) [edit]
220. Xeround Raises $6.5m From Benchmark, Giza VC (israel.benchmark.com) [edit]
221. Cap Funding report [edit]
222. Cap Funding Report [edit]
223. Cap Funding Report [edit]
224. Cap Funding Report [edit]
225. Mu Security Lands $10M (lightreading.com) [edit]
226. redherring.com [edit]
227. Second Life Boosted with $8 Million in New Financing; Linden Lab and Benchmark Capital Aim for the Metaverse (allbusiness.com) [edit]
228. Funding Source [edit]
229. Blazent adds $10M in funding (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
230. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
231. Banker Books []
232. mysql.com [edit]
233. Cohesiant bonds with $9.2M funding round (sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com) [edit]
234. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
235. SEC D Amended (sec.gov) [edit]
236. opentable.com [edit]
237. Red Herring (redherring.com) [edit]
238. opentable.com [edit]
239. The Case for the Fat Startup (bhorowitz.com) [edit]
240. Benchmark Capital (fundinguniverse.com) []