A data-driven look at select firms’ financing strategy, investment thesis, key people, exit history, investment syndicates, and more
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Investor Teardowns
A data-driven look at select firms' financing
strategy, investment thesis, key people,
exit history, investment syndicates, and
more
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Table of Contents
Benchmark Capital Teardown
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Accel Partners Teardown
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Union Square Ventures Teardown
24
Greylock Partners Teardown
33
Sequoia Capital Teardown
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Google Ventures Teardown
49
Lowercase Capital Teardown
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Prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark recently announced the addition
of former Behance CEO Scott Belsky as its sixth general partner. Benchmark follows a
unique model in which all partners have an equal stake in the firm's success. Based on the
data, the formula seems to be working.
Here we will dive into Benchmark's investment and exit trends as part of our investor
"teardown," drilling into Benchmark's activity.
1. Where's the data & viz from? 100% of the visualizations and data you see in this
teardown are directly from the CB Insights platform's Investor Analytics tool.
2. What's a teardown? A product teardown is the act of disassembling a product to
understand its parts, functionality, etc. An investor teardown is analogous in that
we're trying to understand a firm by analyzing data around their f