Benchmark

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionUnited States · Oct 19, 2026 · Jul 22, 2026

Benchmark is a venture investment partnership based in the San Francisco Bay Area, backing technology founders at seed and Series A and continuing with companies through later financings.

Partner Chetan Puttagunta describes its early investing as work that can begin before a company has a product, revenue or operating metrics. The focus at that point is on the founding team and the business it intends to create.

Its relationship with tax software company Numeral illustrates continued participation: Benchmark led the Series A and also joined the company’s Series C. The financing relationship can therefore extend beyond the initial institutional round.

Sources
Rounds participated in
7
Confirmed lead rounds
0
2 roles undisclosed
New companies
5
First participation on record · 2 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$1.7B
7 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series A2
Series B2
Series C+2
Seed1

By primary sector

AI3
Defense tech1
Developer tools1
Enterprise software1
Space tech1

By country

United States7

Rounds

7 in this selection
Greptile

Greptile builds an AI code-review and validation platform that checks software changes against the context of a team’s codebase.

$50MSeries B
Participant
Furientis

Furientis develops interceptor missiles designed for affordable production at scale.

$25MSeed
Participant
Instinct

Develops a personal AI assistant that carries out everyday tasks through text and phone calls.

$1BSeries C
Participant
Numeral

AI-powered software that automates sales tax and VAT compliance for global businesses.

$100MSeries C
Participant
Instinct

Develops a personal AI assistant that carries out everyday tasks through text and phone calls.

$250MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Deep Cogito

Post-training research lab building reinforcement learning and self-improving AI models

$43MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Starcloud

Builds orbital data centers running AI GPU compute in space

$250MSeries A extension
Participant