Benchmark

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionAI · Seed

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
3
Confirmed lead rounds
1
1 roles undisclosed
New companies
3
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$185M
3 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed3

By primary sector

AI1
Enterprise software1
Fintech1

By country

Brazil2
United States1

Rounds

3 in this selection
Hone

Persistent AI systems that learn company workflows and work toward ongoing business goals.

$60MSeed
Lead
Decade

AI-native wealth advisory pairing clients with human advisors and personalized AI

$85MSeed
Participant
Pax

Connects cameras, police records, and criminal databases into a unified AI intelligence platform for law enforcement

$40MSeed
Role not disclosed