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Benchmark Cancels Plans for Third Israel Fund

Posted on: January 10th, 2010

Benchmark Capital will not raise a third fund focused on Israel, as first reported by Israeli newspaper The Marker. Silicon Valley-based Benchmark launched its Israeli affiliate in 2001 with a $26...

Deborah Gage

Whoever Buys Yelp Will Inherit The Lawsuits

Posted on: December 18th, 2009

Benchmark Capital Bessemer Venture Partners DAG Ventures Google Yelp

In light of today's reports that Google and maybe other companies are negotiating to buy Yelp, we wonder what an acquisition would mean for the various lawsuits that are filed against Yelp's users. ...

Deborah Gage

VC Predictions For 2010 Offer Few Surprises

Posted on: December 16th, 2009

Benchmark Capital nvca

The National Venture Capital Association's annual survey of what VCs expect to happen in 2010 could have been written in part by Bill Gurley, the sage of Sand Hill Road. (Once again we link to his Aug...

Deborah Gage

Bill Gurley’s Stock Speech

Posted on: December 8th, 2009

Benchmark Capital

Ever since his infamous blog post in August -- when he warned how LPs, having been burned in the downturn, were pulling back on their venture investments and predicted the industry would shrink by 50%...

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Seeking Alpha Raises $7 million

Posted on: December 2nd, 2009

Accel Partners Benchmark Capital DAG Ventures

Seeking Alpha, a financial blog, raised a $7M series B funding round, led by new investor DAG Ventures with full participation from existing investors Benchmark Capital & Accel Partners. From t...

Deborah Gage

Asana Raises $9 Million For Web Collaboration Software

Posted on: November 24th, 2009

Andreessen Horowitz Benchmark Capital

What the company does exactly is still a mystery, but it was founded in December by two veterans of Facebook -- Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein. A couple of former Google engineers are also inv...

Deborah Gage

Bill Gurley: Everything I Said In August Is Still True

Posted on: October 29th, 2009

Benchmark Capital

Gurley's long, thoughtful essay on the state of venture capital, in which he described an industry that could shrink by half as Limited Partners -- hit by a declining stock market and poor returns fro...

Deborah Gage

ScanSafe, Too, Got An Offer It Couldn’t Refuse

Posted on: October 27th, 2009

Benchmark Capital Scale Venture Partners

Cisco is buying the Web security company for $183 million in cash and retention incentives, which means all 150 employees will be moving to Cisco, said ScanSafe co-founder Roy Tuvey. He said ScanSa...

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Michael Wolfe Rejoins Benchmark Capital

Posted on: October 22nd, 2009

Benchmark Capital

Michael Wolfe has rejoined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur-in-residence. His last Benchmark-backed company was Vontu, which was acquired by Symantec in 2007. PRESS RELEASE Benchmark Capita...

Alastair Goldfisher

On a Cloud, Q&A with CTERA CEO Liran Eshel

Posted on: October 21st, 2009

Benchmark Capital Ctera Networks

Liran Eshel jokes that he has managed two startups in the last year. For one, Eshel is CEO and co-founder of CTERA Networks, a provider of a cloud computing storage device, which raised an undisclo...

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MySQL Founder Joins Benchmark Capital

Posted on: September 30th, 2009

Benchmark Capital

Marten Mickos, founder and former CEO of MySQL, has joined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur-in-residence. Following Sun Microsystem' acquisition of MySQL in early 2008 for approximately $1 billio...

Dan Primack

Fund Size: It’s About The Change, Not The Dollars

Posted on: September 28th, 2009

Benchmark Capital Twitter Union Square Ventures

Twitter confirmed the obvious on Friday, with a short blog post about how it had raised a new round of VC funding. No dollar or valuation info, of course (Twitter is to financial info what Bill Belich...

Deborah Gage

Stanford’s Investment Loss May Be Largest Ever

Posted on: September 25th, 2009

Benchmark Capital Stanford Unversity

It's not a surprise -- Stanford University president John Hennessy warned in April that the university's endowment would probably drop 30% this year due to the world economic crisis -- but a 25.9% plu...

Benchmark Cancels Plans for Third Israel Fund

Whoever Buys Yelp Will Inherit The Lawsuits

VC Predictions For 2010 Offer Few Surprises

Bill Gurley’s Stock Speech

Seeking Alpha Raises $7 million

Asana Raises $9 Million For Web Collaboration Software

Bill Gurley: Everything I Said In August Is Still True

ScanSafe, Too, Got An Offer It Couldn’t Refuse

Michael Wolfe Rejoins Benchmark Capital

On a Cloud, Q&A with CTERA CEO Liran Eshel

MySQL Founder Joins Benchmark Capital

Fund Size: It’s About The Change, Not The Dollars

Stanford’s Investment Loss May Be Largest Ever

Amazon Shrugs in Colorado

VC Bookworm

Why and How Universities Should Embrace Startup Culture

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