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Benchmark
Venture capital firm · Founded 1995 · Active in 2026
Benchmark is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1995. The page below shows 79 Power Law outcomes from Benchmark's portfolio — 68 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 7 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · AI · eCommerce & Marketplaces; top portfolio geographies are USA · Sweden · Germany. Benchmark ranks #47 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Benchmark’s biggest exits.
Benchmark portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
+9 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 79 Benchmark Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA68
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Sweden2
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Germany2
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Israel2
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UK1
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France1
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China1
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Brazil1
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Singapore1
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Other B2B Software20
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AI17
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eCommerce & Marketplaces9
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Fintech8
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Marketing8
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Other6
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Cybersecurity5
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Space1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Edtech1
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Transportation1
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Health Tech & Medtech1
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Series B+28
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Series A42
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Seed5
Benchmark’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Benchmark’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 15 companies where Benchmark is a named shareholder, worth about $10.6B in estimated equity value.
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Discord
10%
$15.0B
$1.5B
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2
ClickHouse
7.5%
$15.0B
$1.1B
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3
Chainalysis
12.5%
$8.6B
$1.1B
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4
Mercor
10.5%
$10.0B
$1.1B
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5
Sierra
6.5%
$15.8B
$1.0B
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6
Airtable
9.1%
$11.0B
$1.0B
- 7 15.5% $5.6B $868M
- 8 12% $6.1B $732M
- 9 14.5% $4.3B $624M
- 10 11.5% $5.0B $575M
- 11 18% $2.0B $360M
- 12 13.6% $2.0B $272M
Showing the 12 largest of 15 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Benchmark’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Benchmark also appears inside investor groups in Zopa, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Benchmark's 79 Power Law outcomes.
How does Benchmark stack up?
Benchmark in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Benchmark's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
195 founders across the 79 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Benchmark.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Benchmark
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Benchmark on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Benchmark
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