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Benchmark Capital

Company nameBenchmark Capital
Company typeLimited liability company
IndustryVenture Capital
Founded1995
HeadquartersMenlo Park, California, United States
ProductsInvestments

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Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups. In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999. Other high profile investments include Ariba, Juniper Networks, Red Hat, and Twitter. The firm's general partners include Alex Balkanski, Matt Cohler, Bruce Dunlevie, Peter Fenton, Bill Gurley, Kevin Harvey, Bob Kagle, Mitch Lasky and Steve Spurlock.

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Benchmark Capital Raising Price Target To $320 On Priceline.com After Earnings ... - Benzinga Tweet this news
Benzinga---Benchmark Capital- is severely lifting its price target on shares of Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) after the online travel site reported blow out earnings ... - Date : Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:10:05 GMT+00:00
Benchmark Capital Raising Price Target To $50 On OpenTable (OPEN) - Benzinga Tweet this news
Benzinga---Benchmark Capital- is pushing up its price target on OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN) after the dining service provider reported outstanding quarterly results. ... - Date : Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:45:03 GMT+00:00
Benchmark Capital Has $10 Target On Infospace (INSP) - Benzinga Tweet this news
Benzinga---Benchmark Capital- has a Buy rating and $10 price target on shares of Infospace (NASDAQ: INSP) after the company reported earnings yesterday after the bell. ... - Date : Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:27:21 GMT+00:00
Benchmark Capital Maintains “Buy” rating on VMWare (NYSE: VMW) - American Banking News Tweet this news
American Banking News---Benchmark Capital- analysts maintained a “buy” rating and boosted its price target on shares of VMWare (NYSE: VMW) from $72.00 to $96.00. ... - Date : Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:16:15 GMT+00:00
Game-streaming firm Gaikai raises funding from Intel Capital and Limelight ... - VentureBeat Tweet this news
VentureBeat--Other investors include Rustic Canyon Partners, -Benchmark Capital-, TriplePoint Capital and an unidentified investor.--- - Date : Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:47:20 GMT+00:00
Benchmark Analysts Lowers Price Target on BP (NYSE: BP) Stock - American Banking News Tweet this news
American Banking News---Benchmark capital- analysts lowered their price target on shares of BP (NYSE: BP) from $49.00 to $41.00 and re-affirmed their “buy” rating on BP shares. ... - Date : Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:12:22 GMT+00:00
Reports: Move Networks Shutting Down, Seeking Buyer - Digital Media Wire Tweet this news
Digital Media Wire--The company raised nearly $70 million in venture capital, from backers including -Benchmark Capital-, Microsoft, Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital and ... - Date : Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:53:33 GMT+00:00
One Less Thing for Flash to Worry About - SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) Tweet this news
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)---...- over $90 million in investments from Microsoft and Cisco, Hummer Winblad, Comcast, -Benchmark Capital- and Steamboat Ventures and Televista with it. ... - Date : Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:31:36 GMT+00:00
Eucalyptus Adds Windows VM Support - socalTech.com Tweet this news
socalTech.com--Eucalyptus is venture backed by -Benchmark Capital- and BV Capital, and the firm is headed by Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL.--- - Date : Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:22:28 GMT+00:00
Eteract Showcase in iMatch 2009 - PR-inside.com (press release) Tweet this news
PR-inside.com (press release)--The top 5-10 startups will get an opportunity to pitch to top notch international investors from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, -Benchmark Capital- and Google. i. ... - Date : Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:32:58 GMT+00:00

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