Benchmark (syarikat modal usaha niaga)
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| Jenis/bentuk sah | syarikat liabiliti terhad |
|---|---|
| Industri | Modal teroka |
| Ditubuhkan | 1995 |
| Pengasas | Bob Kagle Bruce Dunlevie Andy Rachleff Kevin Harvey Val Vaden |
| Ibu pejabat | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Tokoh penting | 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 Partner |
| Tapak web | www |
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Benchmark ialah sebuah syarikat modal usaha niaga yang berpangkalan di San Francisco. Syarikat ini menyediakan wang benih kepada syarikat pemula .
Sejarah
[sunting | sunting sumber]Pelaburan syarikat yang paling berjaya ialah pelaburan pada tahun 1997 iaitu sebanyak $6.7 juta ke dalam dalam syarikat eBay untuk 22.1% pegangan untuk seluruh syarikat. [1] Pada tahun 2011, ia melabur sebanyak $12 juta untuk 11% kepentingan dalam syarikat Uber, yang bernilai $7 bilion pada tahun 2019. [2]
Pelaburan syarikat yang paling bermasalah ialah pelabuaran ke dalam syarikat WeWork, sebuah syarikat rangkaian sosial untuk penyewaan pejabat yang bermasalah. Pada 1 April tahun 2012, Benchmark menjadi pelabur utama pertama syarikat WeWork apabila ia menerajui pembiayaan benih Siri-A WeWork yang bernilai $17 juta. [3] [4]
Antara syarikat yang telah dilabur oleh Benchmark termasuk Dropbox, [5] Twitter, Uber, [6] Snapchat, Instagram, [7] Discord, [8] Domo, [9] New Relic, [10] Nextdoor, [11] Stitch Betulkan, [12] WeWork, [13] Yelp, [14] Zendesk, [15] Zillow [16] dan Zipcar . [17]
Struktur rakan kongsi
[sunting | sunting sumber]Benchmark terkenal dengan memperkenalkan konsep pemilikan sama rata dan struktur pampasan yang pertama untuk rakan kongsinya. [18] Syarikat "maverick" [19] ini berbeza daripada kebanyakan firma VC, yang dinamakan untuk pengasasnya dan disusun mengikut hierarki; Benchmark disifatkan oleh Fortune sebagai " sebuah operasi yang adil di mana enam rakan kongsi berkongsi keuntungan dengan sama rata." [19] Tiada pembezaan antara "rakan kongsi junior" dan "rakan kongsi kanan," kerana setiap rakan kongsi mendapat manfaat yang sama daripada keuntungan syarikat. Di samping itu, tiada jawatan seperti CEO di dalam Benchmark. [20]
Pejabat
[sunting | sunting sumber]Firma itu mengumumkan pada Mei tahun 2012 yang bahawa ia akan berkembang dari ibu pejabatnya di Menlo Park, California dengan membuka sebuah pejabat cawangan kedua dengan lebih daripada 10,000 kaki persegi di koridor teknologi baru muncul di kejiranan Mid-Market San Francisco. [21]
Dalam budaya popular
[sunting | sunting sumber]Benchmark Capital telah dipaparkan dalam rancangan original televisyen yang dibiayai Apple TV+ bertajuk WeCrashed yang dibintangi oleh pelakon Jared Leto dan Anne Hathaway. Dalam rancangan itu, Anthony Edwards menggambarkan pengasas bersama Benchmark Bruce Dunlevie, yang pada 1 April tahun 2012, menjadi pelabur utama pertama untuk syarikat WeWork apabila ia mengetuai pembiayaan benih Siri-A WeWork yang bernilai $17 juta.
Benchmark juga dipaparkan dalam sebuah rancangan oleh Showtime bertajuk Super Pumped yang dibintangi oleh Joseph Gordon-Levitt . Dalam siri ini, Kyle Chandler memainkan watak Rakan Kongsi Umum Benchmark Bill Gurley, dengan menggambarkan penglibatannya dalam mengetuai pengumpulan dana untuk syarikat Ubers sebanyak $11 juta pada Februari 2011.
Pelaburan
[sunting | sunting sumber]Benchmark telah melabur dalam lebih daripada 250 buah syarikat pemula sejak penubuhannya pada tahun 1995. Senarai syarikat termasuk:
- 1-800-Flowers
- Amplitude[22]
- AOL
- Art.com/Allposters.com
- Asana[23]
- Baixing
- CTERA Networks
- Cerebras Systems[24]
- Confluent[25]
- Cockroach Labs[26]
- CouchSurfing[27]
- Cyanogen[28]
- Digits[29]
- Discord[8]
- Duo[30]
- Domo[31]
- Docker[32]
- Dropbox
- EBags.com
- eBay
- Friendster
- HackerOne[33]
- Instagram[34]
- JAMDAT
- Juniper Networks
- Marin Software[35]
- Metacafe
- Minted
- Modern Treasury[36]
- MySQL
- New Relic[37]
- Nextdoor[38]
- OpenTable
- Optimizely[39]
- Palm, Inc.
- ResearchGate[40]
- Seeking Alpha
- ServiceSource
- Sketch[41]
- Snapchat[42] - In February 2013, Snapchat confirmed a $13.5 million Series A round of funding led by Benchmark Capital, which valued the company at between $60 million and $70 million.[43] Beyond the two founders, the two biggest shareholders for the planned early 2017 Snap IPO were Benchmark and Lightspeed Venture Partners, both prior Snap investors and venture-capital firms from Silicon Valley. They held a combined stake of about 20%.[44]
- Solv[45]
- Stitch Fix[46]
- Twitter[47]
- Tellme Networks
- Uber[48]
- Ubiquity6[49]
- Vessel[50]
- Yelp
- WeWork[51]
- Xapo,[52]
- Zillow
- Zipcar
- Zuora[53][54]
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- ^ Cromwell, Schuberth. "Big winners on New Relic, Hortonworks IPOs are mostly Benchmark, Peter Fenton". Silicon Valley Business Journal.
- ^ Chapman, Lizette (March 4, 2015). "Valued at $1.1 Billion, Nextdoor's Pivot Appears to Be Paying Off". The Wall Street Journal.
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- ^ Empson, Rip. "Twitter, Yelp Board Member Peter Fenton On How Enterprise Is Learning From The Consumer Web". TechCrunch.
- ^ Connie, Loizos. "Benchmark's Newest Partner, Eric Vishria, On His First Year at the Powerhouse Firm". TechCrunch.
- ^ Jackson, Eric. "Interview With Bill Gurley: The Guy Who Backed OpenTable, Yelp, GrubHub, Twitter, Zillow And Uber". Forbes.
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- ^ a b Hempel, Jessi (11 February 2013). "Bill Gurley: The sage of Silicon Valley". Fortune.
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- ^ Levy, Ari (25 May 2012). "Benchmark Joins Twitter in San Francisco's Startup Zone". Bloomberg News.
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- ^ Lawler, Ryan (November 6, 2014). "Benchmark Backs Real-Time Data Processing Startup Confluent". TechCrunch.
- ^ Novet, Jordan (June 4, 2015). "Peter Fenton's latest investment is a database startup called Cockroach". VentureBeat.
- ^ "CouchSurfing Raises $7.6 Million in Series A From Benchmark Capital and Omidyar Network to Expand Services and Fuel Growth in Cultural Exchange Network" (Siaran akhbar). PR Newswire. 25 August 2011.
- ^ Culter, Kim-Mai (September 18, 2013). "Cyanogen Mod Raises $7M To Find A Direct-To-Consumer Route For Android Firmware". TechCrunch.
- ^ Perez, Sarah (November 6, 2019). "Stealth fintech startup Digits raises $10.5 million Series A from Benchmark and others". TechCrunch.
- ^ Lawler, Ryan (22 September 2014). "Two-Factor Authentication Startup Duo Security Raises $12 Million From Benchmark". TechCrunch.
- ^ Lacy, Sarah (July 13, 2011). "Series A Whopper: Benchmark Invests $33M in New BI Company Domo". TechCrunch.
- ^ Alex, Williams (January 21, 2014). "Docker Raises $15M For Its Open-Source Platform That Helps Developers Build Apps In The Cloud". TechCrunch.
- ^ Gage, Deborah (28 May 2014). "HackerOne Emerges With $9 Million to Root Out Software Bugs". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Gannes, Liz. "Instagram Raises $7M Led by Benchmark". All Things Digital.
- ^ "Benchmark leads series B for marin software". The New York Times. April 7, 2008.
- ^ Roof, Katie (19 December 2019). "Venture Firm Benchmark Invests in Payments Startup as Sector Heats Up". Wall Street Journal. Dicapai pada 21 June 2020.
- ^ Rao, Leena (November 16, 2011). "Cloud App Management Platform New Relic Raises $15M From DAG, Benchmark". TechCrunch.
- ^ Isaac, Mike (July 24, 2012). "Nextdoor Raises $18.6M From Benchmark, Greylock in First Major Funding Round".
- ^ Ha, Andrew (10 April 2013). "Website Testing Service Optimizely Raises $28M Round Led By Benchmark, Plans Global Expansion". TechCrunch. TechCrunch. Dicapai pada 3 June 2021.
- ^ "ResearchGate brings in strong funding round for 'scientific Facebook'". The Guardian. September 8, 2010.
- ^ Loizos, Connie (13 March 2019). "Sketch, maker of popular design tools, just landed $20 million in Series A funding from Benchmark in its first outside round". TechCrunch. Diarkibkan daripada yang asal pada 14 March 2019. Dicapai pada 15 March 2019.
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- ^ "This Startup Wants to Be the OpenTable for Urgent Care". Fortune. April 19, 2017.
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- ^ Chapman, Lizette (October 4, 2013). "Twitter Investor Benchmark Capital Gets Smaller Taste In Potbelly IPO". The Wall Street Journal.
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- ^ "AR startup Ubiquity6 lands $27M Series B to build a more user-friendly augmented reality". TechCrunch.
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- ^ Kosoff, Maya. "WeWork, a startup that rents out office space to other startups, may soon be valued at $10 billion". www.businessinsider.com. Dicapai pada 18 September 2015.
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- ^ Schonfeld, Erick (13 March 2008). "Benchmark and Benioff Put $6.5 Million Into Zuora to Create a Salesforce for Online Billing". TechCrunch. Dicapai pada 2 May 2013.
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