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Benchmark
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Benchmark
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Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure, and enterprise software.
Joined June 2009
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Government and healthcare are two parts of the economy where productivity has slipped, and AI can help turn that around. @btaylor on Sierra being certified FedRAMP High so federal agencies can build better experiences for the people using their services.
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Yesterday I joined @CNBC Squawk Box Europe to talk about what's really happening in the legal industry right now. This isn't disruption in the traditional sense. It's expansion. With our technology, more legal services are being done, not fewer. But the way they're delivered is
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Brendan has one of the clearest views of how AI will shape labor economics, where the frontier is going, and how enterprises are adapting to the changing landscape. Was awesome to have him in the office for a conversation. We are big fans of @mercor_ai!After working with both frontier labs and enterprises across industries, @mercor_ai CEO @BrendanFoody joined our CEO @ypatil125 to discuss why proprietary data and custom models are what keep a company competitive at the frontier.
00:00 - Benchmark repostedThe biggest opportunity in AI isn't building models. It's being the person who understands the business problem and the tech well enough to connect them. More from @btaylor and @Rivian CEO @RJScaringe on @CNN: cnn.com/The1on1
00:00 - Benchmark repostedToday, I'm excited to announce that @WeAreLegora has acquired Cadastral. Cadastral is an AI agent platform built specifically for commercial real estate, trusted by JLL, AvalonBay, Equity Residential, and Empire State Realty Trust. In just over a year, they've signed 50+ firms
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Sierra just hit $200M in ARR. It took seven quarters to get to $100M, and only two more quarters to add our next $100M. Proud of the team and very grateful to our customers and partners.Sierra just hit $100M in ARR, just seven quarters since we launched in February 2024. @claybavor and I are very grateful to our customers and proud of the Sierra team, who has redefined the meaning of intensity and craftsmanship. I have never had this much fun in my career.
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Another decade long journey! @s2o and @hungryblank started Contentful in Berlin but always had global ambitions. In 2016, they started building out GTM in SF. In 2019 they brought on @sm_sloan to lead scaling from 10s of ARR to nearly 200. And then 2 years ago, they broughtWe have signed a definitive agreement to acquire @contentful, a leading headless and composable content platform. 🚀 Upon close, we’ll enhance Agentforce with a native, enterprise-grade content layer – helping customers dynamically orchestrate and deliver personalized - Benchmark reposted
A great live conversation with @tbpn. Our CEO @DLeitersdorf joined @johncoogan and @jordihays following our latest funding round to talk about Decart, realtime AI, and what it takes to build the infrastructure behind the next generation of models. Thanks for having us!
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Remarkable collaboration between SpaceX and Starcloud! Truly excited about the future of data centers in space.
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.@cerebras is now running Kimi K2.6 - the leading trillion parameter open source model - at ~1000 tokens per second in enterprise trials. 6.7x faster than the next-fastest GPU cloud. 10x faster than Claude Opus. 3x faster than Gemini Flash 3.5 (Google’s latest fast model). A
