Bruce has served on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University for 10 years and on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Rice University, for 8 years. He is a General Partner of Benchmark Capital, which he helped found in 1995. 1 Investments The firm's most successful investment was a 1997 investment of 6.7 million in eBay for 22.1 of the company. In the series, Kyle Chandler plays Benchmark General Partner Bill Gurley, portraying his involvement in leading Ubers' $11 million round of fundraising in February of 2011. Bruce has been a venture capitalist for thirty years, investing mainly in high-tech start-ups. Benchmark is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden. īenchmark was also featured in the Showtime original Super Pumped starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In the show, Anthony Edwards portrays Benchmark co-founder Bruce Dunlevie, who became WeWork's first major investor on the 1st of April in 2012 when Benchmark led WeWork's $17 million Series-A seed funding.
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The "maverick" firm differs from most VC firms, which are named for their founders and are structured hierarchically Benchmark was described by Fortune as "a lean operation in which its six full-time partners share profits equally." While there are no differentiation between its "junior partners" and "senior partners," there is also no CEO-like position held.īenchmark Capital was featured in the Apple TV+ original TV series WeCrashed starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway. Benchmark Capital Limited, Registered Office: Broadlands Business Campus, Langhurst Wood Road, Horsham, West Sussex, England, RH12 4QP. Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA Bio: Benchmark Founding Partner and WeWork Investor. Other notable companies funded by the firm include 1-800-Flowers, Amplitude, AOL, Art.com/, Asana, Baixing, CTERA Networks, Cerebras Systems, Confluent, Cockroach Labs, CouchSurfing, Cyanogen, Digits, Discord, Duo Security, Domo, Inc., Docker, Dropbox,, eBay, Friendster, HackerOne Instagram, JAMDAT, Juniper Networks, Marin Software, Metacafe, Minted, Modern Treasury, MySQL, New Relic, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Optimizely, Palm, Inc., ResearchGate, Seeking Alpha, ServiceSource, Sketch, Snapchat, Solv, Stitch Fix, Twitter, Tellme Networks, Uber, Ubiquity6, Vessel, WeWork, Xapo, Yelp, Inc., Zendesk, Zillow, Zipcar, and Zuora.īenchmark is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. Dunlevie Bruce Dunlevie Born: September 25, 1956. In 2011, it invested $12 million for an 11% stake in Uber, worth $7 billion in 2019 and $9.4 billion in 2023. The firm's most successful investment was a 1997 investment of $6.7 million in eBay for 22.1% of the company.
Matt Cohler, General Partner Peter Fenton, General Partner Bill Gurley, General Partner Mitch Lasky, General Partner Eric Vishria, General Partner Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner Sarah Tavel, General Partnerīenchmark is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden.
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