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Benchmark

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Benchmark

@benchmark

Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

Joined June 2009

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Paul
@PaulErlanger
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I'll never forget our first conversation with @chetanp. In minutes he understood the inevitability behind what we were building. Meeting Julia, @janatindex, @fredwilson and @uninsightful felt like repeated history. We are lucky enough to find that again, in a short time. Back
fomo
@fomo
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We have raised a $75M Series B from @IndexVentures and @usv, with continued support from @benchmark!
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Chetan Puttagunta
@chetanp
Jun 16
Congratulations to the entire Cursor team! Truly a remarkable team, product, and company. It was an extraordinary privilege for us at Benchmark to have invested in this incredible company. There is no doubt that they will continue to shape the future of AI with SpaceX!
SpaceX
@SpaceX
Jun 16
SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models. For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.
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LangChain
@LangChain
Jun 11
Head of AI @nlarusstone on the patterns @benchling uses to look at production traces.
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se
@seyong
Jun 11
THE social graph of finance.
fomo
@fomo
Jun 11
Perpetuals are now live on fomo, powered by @HyperliquidX and @tradexyz. Equity, pre-IPO, crypto, indices, and commodities perps, all from one app. See you on the leaderboard. Trade perps on fomo today.
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Sierra
@SierraPlatform
Jun 11
Government and healthcare are two parts of the economy where productivity has slipped, and AI can help turn that around. @btaylor on Sierra being certified FedRAMP High so federal agencies can build better experiences for the people using their services.
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Max Junestrand
@MaxJunestrand
Jun 11
Yesterday I joined @CNBC Squawk Box Europe to talk about what's really happening in the legal industry right now. This isn't disruption in the traditional sense. It's expansion. With our technology, more legal services are being done, not fewer. But the way they're delivered is
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Yash Patil
@ypatil125
Jun 10
Brendan has one of the clearest views of how AI will shape labor economics, where the frontier is going, and how enterprises are adapting to the changing landscape. Was awesome to have him in the office for a conversation. We are big fans of @mercor_ai!
Applied Compute
@appliedcompute
Jun 10
After working with both frontier labs and enterprises across industries, @mercor_ai CEO @BrendanFoody joined our CEO @ypatil125 to discuss why proprietary data and custom models are what keep a company competitive at the frontier.
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Sierra
@SierraPlatform
Jun 5
The biggest opportunity in AI isn't building models. It's being the person who understands the business problem and the tech well enough to connect them. More from @btaylor and @Rivian CEO @RJScaringe on @CNN: cnn.com/The1on1
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Max Junestrand
@MaxJunestrand
Jun 2
Today, I'm excited to announce that @WeAreLegora has acquired Cadastral. Cadastral is an AI agent platform built specifically for commercial real estate, trusted by JLL, AvalonBay, Equity Residential, and Empire State Realty Trust. In just over a year, they've signed 50+ firms
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Bret Taylor
@btaylor
May 29
Sierra just hit $200M in ARR. It took seven quarters to get to $100M, and only two more quarters to add our next $100M. Proud of the team and very grateful to our customers and partners.
Bret Taylor
@btaylor
Nov 21, 2025
Sierra just hit $100M in ARR, just seven quarters since we launched in February 2024. @claybavor and I are very grateful to our customers and proud of the Sierra team, who has redefined the meaning of intensity and craftsmanship. I have never had this much fun in my career.
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Eric Vishria
@ericvishria
Jun 1
Another decade long journey! @s2o and @hungryblank started Contentful in Berlin but always had global ambitions. In 2016, they started building out GTM in SF. In 2019 they brought on @sm_sloan to lead scaling from 10s of ARR to nearly 200. And then 2 years ago, they brought
Salesforce
@salesforce
Jun 1
We have signed a definitive agreement to acquire @Contentful, a leading headless and composable content platform. 🚀 Upon close, we’ll enhance Agentforce with a native, enterprise-grade content layer – helping customers dynamically orchestrate and deliver personalized
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Decart
@DecartAI
May 29
A great live conversation with @tbpn. Our CEO @DLeitersdorf joined @johncoogan and @jordihays following our latest funding round to talk about Decart, realtime AI, and what it takes to build the infrastructure behind the next generation of models. Thanks for having us!
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Chetan Puttagunta
@chetanp
May 26
Remarkable collaboration between SpaceX and Starcloud! Truly excited about the future of data centers in space.
Philip Johnston
@PhilipJohnston
May 26
I’m super excited to share that we have signed a contract with @SpaceX @Starlink to integrate its mini laser terminals onto our satellites for high bandwidth, low latency connectivity!
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