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Benchmark

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Benchmark

@benchmark

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

Joined June 2009

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Yash Patil
@ypatil125
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Brendan has one of the clearest views of how AI will shape labor economics, where the frontier is going, and how enterprises are adapting to the changing landscape. Was awesome to have him in the office for a conversation. We are big fans of @mercor_ai!
Applied Compute
@appliedcompute
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After working with both frontier labs and enterprises across industries, @mercor_ai CEO @BrendanFoody joined our CEO @ypatil125 to discuss why proprietary data and custom models are what keep a company competitive at the frontier.
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Sierra
@SierraPlatform
Jun 5
The biggest opportunity in AI isn't building models. It's being the person who understands the business problem and the tech well enough to connect them. More from @btaylor and @Rivian CEO @RJScaringe on @CNN: cnn.com/The1on1
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Max Junestrand
@MaxJunestrand
Jun 2
Today, I'm excited to announce that @WeAreLegora has acquired Cadastral. Cadastral is an AI agent platform built specifically for commercial real estate, trusted by JLL, AvalonBay, Equity Residential, and Empire State Realty Trust. In just over a year, they've signed 50+ firms
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Bret Taylor
@btaylor
May 29
Sierra just hit $200M in ARR. It took seven quarters to get to $100M, and only two more quarters to add our next $100M. Proud of the team and very grateful to our customers and partners.
Bret Taylor
@btaylor
Nov 21, 2025
Sierra just hit $100M in ARR, just seven quarters since we launched in February 2024. @claybavor and I are very grateful to our customers and proud of the Sierra team, who has redefined the meaning of intensity and craftsmanship. I have never had this much fun in my career.
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Eric Vishria
@ericvishria
Jun 1
Another decade long journey! @s2o and @hungryblank started Contentful in Berlin but always had global ambitions. In 2016, they started building out GTM in SF. In 2019 they brought on @sm_sloan to lead scaling from 10s of ARR to nearly 200. And then 2 years ago, they brought
Salesforce
@salesforce
Jun 1
We have signed a definitive agreement to acquire @contentful, a leading headless and composable content platform. 🚀 Upon close, we’ll enhance Agentforce with a native, enterprise-grade content layer – helping customers dynamically orchestrate and deliver personalized
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Decart
@DecartAI
May 29
A great live conversation with @tbpn. Our CEO @DLeitersdorf joined @johncoogan and @jordihays following our latest funding round to talk about Decart, realtime AI, and what it takes to build the infrastructure behind the next generation of models. Thanks for having us!
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Chetan Puttagunta
@chetanp
May 26
Remarkable collaboration between SpaceX and Starcloud! Truly excited about the future of data centers in space.
Philip Johnston
@PhilipJohnston
May 26
I’m super excited to share that we have signed a contract with @SpaceX @Starlink to integrate its mini laser terminals onto our satellites for high bandwidth, low latency connectivity!
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Decart
@DecartAI
May 21
A big week for Decart. Our $300M Series B marks a major step in scaling Realtime AI and infra, and bringing frontier world models into production. Thank you to everyone supporting us. We’re just getting started. @Nasdaq @NYSE
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Andrew Feldman
@andrewdfeldman
May 19
.@cerebras is now running Kimi K2.6 - the leading trillion parameter open source model - at ~1000 tokens per second in enterprise trials. 6.7x faster than the next-fastest GPU cloud. 10x faster than Claude Opus. 3x faster than Gemini Flash 3.5 (Google’s latest fast model). A
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Fireworks AI
@FireworksAI_HQ
May 18
The @cursor_ai team shipped Composer 2 and now Composer 2.5 on the same Kimi K2.5 base model. Performance benchmarks are📈. Frontier quality and open-source economics. 85% of the compute powering these gains came from RL. Fireworks powers the RL rollouts. Learn more about
Cursor
@cursor_ai
May 18
Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.
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Eric Vishria
@ericvishria
May 14
I’m so fucking proud of this team. They took an extraordinarily difficult technical swing with wafer-scale and connected on the first try. Then they spent years grinding through packaging, cooling, compilers, frameworks, early customers, and everything else required to turn a
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Jack Altman
@jaltma
May 14
Huge congrats to Andrew and the Cerebras team. What an insane accomplishment. Proud to be in the same room as my partner @ericvishria who I think is one of the best to ever do it.
Andrew Feldman
@andrewdfeldman
May 14
Ringing the @Nasdaq bell is just the beginning.
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Everett Randle
@EverettRandle
May 14
I constantly feel both proud & fortunate to work with Eric; he represents the type of partner we all aspire to be to entrepreneurs (in good times and bad), and no one deserves today more than him, @andrewdfeldman, and the whole Cerebras team. Just the beginning!
Eric Vishria
@ericvishria
Jan 14
.@benchmark co-lead the initial round for Cerebras 10 years ago. Over the following 5 years, the team amazed, delivering the technological marvel of a wafer-scale chip, the system to heat and cool it, and more recently the software layer that allows giant fleets of Cerebras
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