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Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

Katılım Haziran 2009
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Airbyte@AirbyteHQ·
That's a wrap on Startup Grind 🎬 Airbyte CEO @MichelTricot and @chetanp from @benchmark on the mainstage talking what it actually takes to build an AI-native company. Culture, business model, and the token path. Sharp questions from the room during Q&A. This space keeps getting better!
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Max Junestrand
Max Junestrand@MaxJunestrand·
NVentures – @nvidia's venture arm – and @Atlassian are joining our Series D extension alongside a group of new investors, bringing the total round to USD 600M. These are companies building the compute and collaboration infrastructure that agentic AI runs on. They backed us because they see what we see: that legal is one of the most complex, high-stakes knowledge work domains in the world, and building agents that can actually operate inside it, with firm data, jurisdictional knowledge, real oversight, is genuinely hard and requires deep understanding of the domain. They believe @WeAreLegora is the team to solve it. We're grateful for their support and trust! legora.com/newsroom/legor…
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Everett Randle
Everett Randle@EverettRandle·
AI markets aren’t SaaS markets OR services markets - they create their own new/incremental TAMs. Rachel does a great job of exploring how we get to the bottom of sizing these new markets in this piece
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Sajith Wickramasekara
Sajith Wickramasekara@sajithw·
In the AI era, the traditional biopharma industry is the underdog. Big tech and AI labs are building wet labs. China has overtaken Europe in molecules produced. But the tools available to the industry discuss science, not do it. The hard problem in AI for science is at the interface between the physical and digital worlds. We built an AI Scientist at that seam. It wires together the digital and physical worlds of R&D. Predictive models, data infrastructure, wet lab execution feed into a single loop that reasons, acts, and improves with every experiment. Our ambition: get molecules to the clinic twice as fast. Last fall I wrote about why biotech needs to be rebuilt for the AI era. Today I'm sharing the next chapter: what the AI Scientist is, a blueprint for how it works, and why even Richard Feynman couldn't hack it in a wet lab.
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Eric Vishria
Eric Vishria@ericvishria·
Huge get.
Lin Qiao@lqiao

🔥 I'm thrilled to welcome George Hu as President of Fireworks AI! 🔥 When George and I first met a year ago, I said to him – we are too small for you. But today, we are ready! We have come a long way to build out the next phase of our company. When the seven cofounders started the company, we wanted to honor our roots in PyTorch; torch carries the fire. We want the fire of AI to serve people everywhere. We named our company Fireworks to move the industry forward to be AI-first. Three and a half years in, we have grown substantially. Today, we process 30 trillion tokens a day, the biggest inference provider outside of the frontier labs’ APIs. We got to this impact by relentlessly defining what frontier inference is. It is the control we give to all application developers to customize their own model, deliver magically fast experience, and scale with maximum efficiency. We have built multiple product lines with Fireworks Training, Fireworks Inference and the best open models on one platform. We are accelerating to the next phase of scaling – enabling customers everywhere to experience the power of their own private models on Fireworks. This growth demands a world-class business leader, a unicorn, a one-of-a-kind. George is this leader. He is one of a very small number of people who have scaled not one but two iconic software companies. He worked alongside @Benioff at @salesforce , where he helped grow revenue from $100M to $5B+, and then did it again with @jeffiel at @twilio , driving nearly 10x growth in five years. George, thank you for your trust in me and the Fireworks team. I admire the conviction he brings to Fireworks, the same conviction I've had with the other cofounders since Day One. Let's build something generational! We're still early. The companies winning with AI are the ones who own their intelligence and their differentiation. Our job is to make that possible for every company in the world. And if your conviction is as strong as George’s and mine, we're hiring. Let’s bring the 🔥!

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Max Junestrand
Max Junestrand@MaxJunestrand·
We started @WeAreLegora to change how the world's best lawyers work. Somehow, that also led to making this with Jude Law.
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paul
paul@paulscherer·
overjoyed for all the heartfelt support. the world really needs more belongingness and mutual friends. glad i could make some new today. it’s day 0 but we’re standing on the shoulders of giants ❤️
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Sarah Tavel
Sarah Tavel@sarahtavel·
When I first met @paulscherer I was struck by his intellect, values, and vision for how technology can help bring people together in a time of extreme hyper-personalization. I've long believed one of the most important consumer opportunities in AI would be something that felt like a friend. But most of what I saw created more loneliness, not less. Paul’s vision for @eigenhq is the first in this category that felt truly different. This was something our team needed to be a part of, and @Benchmark is proud to partner with Paul on this journey. More here in Fortune (link below):
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I’m honored to share that @eigenhq has raised $15M from @Benchmark to build a mutual friend that’ll help us belong and grow, together.

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paul@paulscherer·
I’m honored to share that @eigenhq has raised $15M from @Benchmark to build a mutual friend that’ll help us belong and grow, together.
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Andrew Feldman
Andrew Feldman@andrewdfeldman·
.@cerebras data centers are live across North America. More are coming in Europe. Here's a quick peek inside one of several new facilities under construction in Toronto, Canada. Racks and racks and racks of CS-3s. The fastest AI in the world, delivered across the world.
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Sierra
Sierra@SierraPlatform·
We should be more humble in predicting the future as no-one really knows.
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Cursor@cursor_ai·
You can now run Cursor on any machine and control it from anywhere. Kick off agents from your phone to run on your devbox.
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Joshua Xu
Joshua Xu@joshua_xu_·
Introducing Avatar V. We’ve solved character consistency. Forever. Record yourself once for 15 seconds. From there, you can show up anywhere, in any look, and it still feels like you. Any photo becomes a video that looks, moves, and speaks like you, down to your mannerisms and quirks. This is the most advanced AI avatar model in the world. And we know that’s a big claim, so we brought the data to prove it. Thread below:
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TBPN@tbpn·
Sierra co-founder @btaylor says the era of web apps is over: "We made these databases, these systems of record in the 80s and 90s. And then as the web browser came out, we said, 'We're going to give you some forms and fields in the web browser to manipulate these systems of record.'" "Now we think, in the future, most people are just going to be talking to AI agents, and they're just going to be performing those actions on your behalf."
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Joshua Xu
Joshua Xu@joshua_xu_·
We built Video Agent so you can go from a single prompt to a finished video. Now with Seedance 2.0 integrated. One prompt. Your digital twin. Cinematic shots. Motion graphics. A finished video up to 3 minutes long. No separate tools, no extra steps.
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Adit
Adit@aditabrm·
Today, we’re setting the new standard for complex document extraction. Introducing Deep Extract. It utilizes an agent harness approach that repeatedly iterates and verifies outputs until they are at human-level accuracy. More below:
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ClickHouse
ClickHouse@ClickHouseDB·
We're thrilled to announce Bret Taylor, Co-Founder & CEO of Sierra, will be joining us at Open House for a fireside chat. Bret co-created Google Maps. He was CTO of Facebook. He co-led Salesforce as Co-CEO. He sits on the board of OpenAI. And now he's building Sierra, redefining how businesses connect with customers through AI. This one's not to be missed. 🔥 Spots are limited. Register today to make sure you're there. clickhou.se/4c4tLtu
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Chetan Puttagunta
Chetan Puttagunta@chetanp·
A truly sensational product and company. Legora has gone $1M to $100M ARR in less than 18 months. Setting a new speed record for the fastest ever to do it with a direct sales motion. Thrilled to have backed this remarkable group of people at seed, 7 months before they launched.
Max Junestrand@MaxJunestrand

I want to take a moment to recognize a gravity-defying achievement by the entire @WeAreLegora team. We have grown from $1M to $100M in annual recurring revenue in just under 18 months. In this time, we've grown into a truly global company with over 400 colleagues - and built the platform where legal work happens. Powering more than 1,000 teams worldwide. It is all about the people, and I couldn’t be prouder of the Legora team and thankful to our customers and partners. This achievement is as much yours as it is ours.

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