Benchmark portfolio: 13 rounds in AI and data
Rounds where Benchmark led or took part, newest first. Led: 2.
- Instinct raises $250M Series B, . AI apps. Led by Index Ventures, Benchmark. Consumer AI assistant that connects to a user's apps and devices and is reached by text and phone calls.
- Mercor raises $350M Series C, . AI apps. Led by Felicis. Mercor runs a marketplace that matches domain experts with AI labs and companies for contract work such as model training and evaluation.
- LangChain raises $125M Series B, . Developer tools. Led by IVP. LangChain makes open source frameworks and the LangSmith platform for building, testing and deploying LLM agents.
- Sierra raises $350M, . AI apps. Led by Greenoaks Capital. Builds AI agents that handle customer service for large companies.
- Sema4.ai raises $25M Series A, . AI apps. Sema4.ai provides an enterprise platform for building and running AI agents.
- ClickHouse raises $350M Series C, . Databases. Led by Khosla Ventures. ClickHouse builds an open source column-oriented database for real-time analytics, offered as a managed cloud service.
- Mercor raises $100M Series B, . AI apps. Led by Felicis. Mercor runs a marketplace that matches domain experts with AI labs and companies for contract work such as model training and evaluation.
- Cursor raises $105M Series B, . Developer tools. Led by Thrive Capital. Makes Cursor, an AI code editor that writes, edits and reviews code with AI agents.
- Mercor raises $30M Series A, . AI apps. Mercor recruits domain experts to produce training and evaluation data for AI labs.
- Legora raises $25M Series A, . AI apps. Led by Redpoint Ventures. Legora makes a collaborative AI workspace for lawyers and law firms.
- Fireworks AI raises $52M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Sequoia Capital. Fireworks AI offers an inference cloud for running, fine-tuning and scaling open-source generative AI models.
- HeyGen raises $60M Series A, . AI apps. Led by Benchmark. HeyGen provides AI avatar video generation and video translation tools for businesses.
- Sema4.ai raises $31M Series A, . AI apps. Sema4.ai provides an enterprise platform for building and running AI agents.