Benchmark

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionOct 24, 2026 · Developer tools · 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.

Sources
Rounds participated in
4
Confirmed lead rounds
0
3 roles undisclosed
New companies
4
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$208M
4 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series B3
Series A1

By primary sector

AI3
Developer tools1

By country

United States4

Rounds

4 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
Deep Cogito

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

$43MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Ollama

Ollama provides tools for developers to use open AI models.

$65MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Gumloop

Provides AI-powered automation tools for non-technical employees to build and deploy autonomous agents

$50MSeries B
Role not disclosed