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Total Funding: $11M
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Total Funding: $160M
Total Funding: $19M
Total Funding: $38M
Total Funding: $980M
2022
2022
Launched the GameCraft podcast with co-host Blake Robbins. GameCraft is a modern history of the video game business. The first 8 episodes trace the game industry's transition from the early 1990's packaged goods business to the modern era of mobile games and online games-as-services.
2007
General Partner from 2007 to 2019, during the most successful investing run in Benchmark's history and one of the best fund performances in the history of venture capital. In this period, we made early-stage investments in Twitter, Instagram, New Relic, Quora, Riot Games, Snapchat, Uber, StitchFix, Elastic, Docker, and Discord, among many others, generating billions in profits for our Limited Partners.
2013
Series A investor in revolutionary voice and messaging service for desktop and mobile games. Made the initial investment when company was publishing multiplayer mobile games, and assisted CEO Jason Citron in pivoting the company to its current business, serving tens of millions of daily users.
2016
Part of initial ownership group that launched MLS expansion club, going from a cold start to the most successful club in the league, with two Supporter's Shield wins and an MLS Cup championship, in 5 years. Helped build football analytics practice with GM John Thorrington.
2017
2017
Series A investor in multiverse startup founded by Frederic Deschamps and Jordan Maynard.
2012
2012
Series A investor in Santa Monica-based game publisher headed by CEO Jenova Chen, creator of the remarkable Sky, Journey, Flower, and Flow games.
2013 - 2021
2013 - 2021
Series A investor in autonomous electric vehicle company for industrial applications.
2012 - 2018
2012 - 2018
Series A investor in mobile messaging and media company. Saw business grow from 20 employees with headquarters in the CEO's house, through IPO on New York Stock Exchange and growth to $18 billion market cap.
2015 - 2018
2015 - 2018
Series A investor and board member through sale to Microsoft.
2007 - 2017
2007 - 2017
Series A investor in platform-as-service company, one of the pioneering companies behind Ruby on Rails.