Benchmark

Benchmark, established in 1995, is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on technology companies, primarily in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the West Coast. The firm invests in sectors such as enterprise software, mobile, marketplaces, social infrastructure, and consumer services. Benchmark typically invests between $3 million and $15 million per company, often being the first investor. Known for its equal ownership and compensation structure among partners, Benchmark takes a hands-on approach with entrepreneurs, providing strategic guidance and support. Notable portfolio companies include Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, and successful exits like Twitter and Instagram.

Bruce Dunlevie

General Partner

Peter Fenton

General Partner

Gus Fuldner

Venture Partner

Bill Gurley

General Partner

Kevin Harvey

Co-Founder and General Partner

Jill Jarrett

CFO

Bob Kagle

Owner and General Partner

Mitch Lasky

Partner

Victor Lazarte

General Partner

Victor Lazarte

General Partner

Chetan Puttagunta

General Partner

Steven Spurlock

Operating Partner

Sarah Tavel

General Partner

Eric Vishria

General Partner

Past deals in Virtualization

Scale Computing

Series E in 2015
Scale Computing, Inc. specializes in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions tailored for midsized companies. The company’s flagship product, the HC3 platform, consolidates servers, storage, and virtualization into a single, integrated system that simplifies management and enhances application performance. By leveraging self-healing and automation technologies, HC3 minimizes downtime and reduces the complexities associated with traditional IT infrastructure, such as separate virtualization and disaster recovery software. This approach allows organizations to improve application uptime while lowering overall costs. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Scale Computing aims to enable clients to focus on application management rather than infrastructure concerns.

Scale Computing

Series D in 2012
Scale Computing, Inc. specializes in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions tailored for midsized companies. The company’s flagship product, the HC3 platform, consolidates servers, storage, and virtualization into a single, integrated system that simplifies management and enhances application performance. By leveraging self-healing and automation technologies, HC3 minimizes downtime and reduces the complexities associated with traditional IT infrastructure, such as separate virtualization and disaster recovery software. This approach allows organizations to improve application uptime while lowering overall costs. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Scale Computing aims to enable clients to focus on application management rather than infrastructure concerns.

Xeround

Series C in 2011
Xeround is a database-as-a-service provider specializing in elastic and scalable solutions for MySQL applications. The company addresses critical database scalability issues arising from the growth of cloud computing and big data, enabling service providers and customers to manage data more effectively. Xeround offers a patented technology that combines the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases with the simplicity and scalability of NoSQL data stores. Its cloud-designed database solution supports multi-tenancy, high availability, auto-scaling, and self-healing features, ensuring continuous service during schema changes and resource modifications. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, and development operations in Israel, Xeround aims to facilitate seamless data management and synchronization across cloud environments.

Scale Computing

Series B in 2010
Scale Computing, Inc. specializes in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions tailored for midsized companies. The company’s flagship product, the HC3 platform, consolidates servers, storage, and virtualization into a single, integrated system that simplifies management and enhances application performance. By leveraging self-healing and automation technologies, HC3 minimizes downtime and reduces the complexities associated with traditional IT infrastructure, such as separate virtualization and disaster recovery software. This approach allows organizations to improve application uptime while lowering overall costs. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Scale Computing aims to enable clients to focus on application management rather than infrastructure concerns.

Xeround

Series B in 2008
Xeround is a database-as-a-service provider specializing in elastic and scalable solutions for MySQL applications. The company addresses critical database scalability issues arising from the growth of cloud computing and big data, enabling service providers and customers to manage data more effectively. Xeround offers a patented technology that combines the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases with the simplicity and scalability of NoSQL data stores. Its cloud-designed database solution supports multi-tenancy, high availability, auto-scaling, and self-healing features, ensuring continuous service during schema changes and resource modifications. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, and development operations in Israel, Xeround aims to facilitate seamless data management and synchronization across cloud environments.

G.ho.st

Series A in 2008
An acronym for the Global Hosted Operating SysTem, G.ho.st (pronounced "ghost") is a free virtual computer that hosts all of your data and applications on the web so that they are accessible from any Internet browser and not tied down locally to any one computer. G.ho.st combines multiple web software applications in their virtual computer to provide users with a web desktop, webmail, online file system, 15 GB of storage, single sign in, and sharing. The company also makes sure to keep users' globally hosted files/applications secure and backed up. Recently founded in 2006, G.ho.st is self-funded by company founder and CEO Zvi Schreiber. G.ho.st actually launched in 2007 and is currently in public Alpha. The company plans on releasing a Beta version later in 2007. Not only is it unique in its vision to create a free, fully functional, and globally accessible virtual computer, G.ho.st is also unique for putting together a collaborative team in the heart of the Middle East. With a wall at the West Bank dividing them in two, the G.ho.st team is comprised of both Israelis and Palestinians, and prides itself on collaboration. The company should be lauded for their efforts to bridge the differences between the two sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as they have also pledged 10% of their founding equity to a G.ho.st Peace Foundation. Primary competitors: [eyeOS](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eyeOS), [Desktoptwo](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/desktoptwo), and [YouOS](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/youos). Ghost.cc is going to shutdown December 9 ,2010 and G.ho.st is going to be back and everything will be the way it was back then when it was a web based os

Qlusters

Series C in 2007
Qlusters, Inc. was a technology company that specialized in data center solutions, focusing on software provisioning and management of virtual environments. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York, the company developed openQRM, a software tool designed to streamline data center operations. Despite its innovative offerings, Qlusters ceased operations in July 2008.

Xeround

Series B in 2007
Xeround is a database-as-a-service provider specializing in elastic and scalable solutions for MySQL applications. The company addresses critical database scalability issues arising from the growth of cloud computing and big data, enabling service providers and customers to manage data more effectively. Xeround offers a patented technology that combines the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases with the simplicity and scalability of NoSQL data stores. Its cloud-designed database solution supports multi-tenancy, high availability, auto-scaling, and self-healing features, ensuring continuous service during schema changes and resource modifications. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, and development operations in Israel, Xeround aims to facilitate seamless data management and synchronization across cloud environments.

Blue Lane Technologies

Series B in 2006
Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. specializes in providing vulnerability shields for both physical and virtual server infrastructure, focusing on the protection of various operating systems, applications, and databases at the application layer. The company's key products include VirtualShield, which offers features such as application-aware firewalling, inter-VM flow visibility and analytics, application policy control, and intrusion prevention, and ServerShield, a network security appliance designed to enhance server security. Blue Lane Technologies serves multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, high technology, hosting, and retail. Founded in 2002 and based in Cupertino, California, the company operates as a subsidiary of VMware, enhancing its capabilities in the cybersecurity landscape.

Xeround

Series A in 2005
Xeround is a database-as-a-service provider specializing in elastic and scalable solutions for MySQL applications. The company addresses critical database scalability issues arising from the growth of cloud computing and big data, enabling service providers and customers to manage data more effectively. Xeround offers a patented technology that combines the transactional and query capabilities of relational databases with the simplicity and scalability of NoSQL data stores. Its cloud-designed database solution supports multi-tenancy, high availability, auto-scaling, and self-healing features, ensuring continuous service during schema changes and resource modifications. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, and development operations in Israel, Xeround aims to facilitate seamless data management and synchronization across cloud environments.

Blue Lane Technologies

Series B in 2005
Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. specializes in providing vulnerability shields for both physical and virtual server infrastructure, focusing on the protection of various operating systems, applications, and databases at the application layer. The company's key products include VirtualShield, which offers features such as application-aware firewalling, inter-VM flow visibility and analytics, application policy control, and intrusion prevention, and ServerShield, a network security appliance designed to enhance server security. Blue Lane Technologies serves multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, high technology, hosting, and retail. Founded in 2002 and based in Cupertino, California, the company operates as a subsidiary of VMware, enhancing its capabilities in the cybersecurity landscape.

Qlusters

Series B in 2004
Qlusters, Inc. was a technology company that specialized in data center solutions, focusing on software provisioning and management of virtual environments. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York, the company developed openQRM, a software tool designed to streamline data center operations. Despite its innovative offerings, Qlusters ceased operations in July 2008.

Blue Lane Technologies

Series A in 2003
Blue Lane Technologies, Inc. specializes in providing vulnerability shields for both physical and virtual server infrastructure, focusing on the protection of various operating systems, applications, and databases at the application layer. The company's key products include VirtualShield, which offers features such as application-aware firewalling, inter-VM flow visibility and analytics, application policy control, and intrusion prevention, and ServerShield, a network security appliance designed to enhance server security. Blue Lane Technologies serves multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, high technology, hosting, and retail. Founded in 2002 and based in Cupertino, California, the company operates as a subsidiary of VMware, enhancing its capabilities in the cybersecurity landscape.

Qlusters

Series A in 2002
Qlusters, Inc. was a technology company that specialized in data center solutions, focusing on software provisioning and management of virtual environments. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, and New York, the company developed openQRM, a software tool designed to streamline data center operations. Despite its innovative offerings, Qlusters ceased operations in July 2008.

Mazu Networks

Series A in 2000
Mazu Networks, Inc. specializes in network infrastructure software that enables IT organizations to manage, secure, and optimize the performance and availability of business services. The company provides solutions such as Mazu Profiler, a network behavior analysis system that delivers behavioral analytics, user identification, and application fingerprinting, while integrating with other systems to support various IT initiatives, including application performance management and security compliance. Mazu Profiler Discovery aids in identifying configuration items across networks for inventory and dependency management. The company's offerings assist in data center migration, disaster recovery planning, and virtualization, catering to clients in sectors like financial services, technology, and media. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mazu Networks also has offices in several major U.S. cities and operates as a subsidiary of Riverbed Technology.

Red Hat

Venture Round in 1998
Red Hat, Inc. is a leading provider of open source software solutions, specializing in operating systems, virtualization, management, middleware, cloud, mobile, and storage technologies for enterprises around the globe. The company is best known for its flagship product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which serves as a robust operating system platform for hybrid cloud environments. In addition to its core operating system, Red Hat offers a suite of solutions, including Red Hat Satellite for system management, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for managing multiple operating systems, and Red Hat JBoss Middleware for application development and integration. The company also provides cloud solutions, mobile application development platforms, and tools for managing large datasets. Red Hat further enhances its offerings through consulting, support, and training services. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat is recognized for its commitment to free and open source software, solidifying its position as a major player in the enterprise IT landscape.
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