Instinct
Develops a personal AI assistant that carries out everyday tasks through text and phone calls.
$1BSeries C
ParticipantB
Benchmark
Activity from announced rounds
Activity in this selectionOct 6, 2026 · AI · Jan 1, 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.
- Rounds participated in
- 12
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 0 9 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 10 First participation on record · 2 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $3.7B 12 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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12 in this selectionInstinct
Develops a personal AI assistant that carries out everyday tasks through text and phone calls.
$250MSeries B
Role not disclosedDeep Cogito
Post-training research lab building reinforcement learning and self-improving AI models
$43MSeries A
Role not disclosedStarcloud
Builds orbital data centers running AI GPU compute in space
$250MSeries A extension
ParticipantDecade
AI-native wealth advisory pairing clients with human advisors and personalized AI
$85MSeed
ParticipantOllama
Ollama provides tools for developers to use open AI models.
$65MSeries B
Role not disclosedPax
Connects cameras, police records, and criminal databases into a unified AI intelligence platform for law enforcement
$40MSeed
Role not disclosedStarcloud
Builds orbital data centers running AI GPU compute in space
$170MSeries A
Role not disclosedGumloop
Provides AI-powered automation tools for non-technical employees to build and deploy autonomous agents
$50MSeries B
Role not disclosedSunday
Builds household humanoid robot called Memo for tasks like laundry and clearing the table
$165MSeries B
Role not disclosedLegora
Provides AI-powered legal workflow software for corporate legal teams and law firms
$550MSeries D
Role not disclosedCerebras Systems
Cerebras Systems develops computing infrastructure for AI.
$1BSeries H
Role not disclosed