12 Founders backed by Benchmark in San Francisco, CA (2026)

Founders backed by Benchmark in San Francisco, CA (12)

Founders backed by Benchmark in San Francisco, CA covers 12 founders on Anysphere, Bezi and Decart and 9 other companies. The most common sectors are AI Infrastructure (6), Developer Tools (4) and Fintech (1). The remaining members span Healthtech (1). Companies represented include Deep Cogito, Exa, Greptile, Gumloop, LangChain, Mercor, New Lantern, Numeral and Reducto. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

• Founders listed: 12
• Companies represented: 12
• Top sector: AI Infrastructure (6 founders)
• Top location: San Francisco, CA (12 founders)
• Sectors represented: 4

• Adit Abraham — Reducto
• Brendan Foody — Mercor
• Daksh Gupta — Greptile
• Dean Leitersdorf — Decart
• Drishan Arora — Deep Cogito
• Harrison Chase — LangChain
• Julian Park — Bezi
• Max Brodeur-Urbas — Gumloop
• Michael Truell — Anysphere
• Sam Ross — Numeral
• Shiva Suri — New Lantern
• Will Bryk — Exa

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Narrow Benchmark founders

• Benchmark · AI Infrastructure (13 founders)
• Benchmark · Developer Tools (4 founders)

Other founder hubs

• DCVC (20 founders)
• Wellington Management (30 founders)
• Accel (60 founders)
• Franklin Templeton (22 founders)
• Bain Capital Ventures (34 founders)
• Foundry Group (18 founders)
• Venrock (25 founders)
• Mayfield Fund (39 founders)
• Tuesday Capital (20 founders)
• Goldman Sachs (29 founders)
• New Enterprise Associates (51 founders)
• Betaworks (22 founders)
• Matrix (32 founders)
• Legendary Ventures (18 founders)
• GV (23 founders)
• Canaan Partners (37 founders)
• Partech (19 founders)
• IVP (27 founders)
• BoxGroup (46 founders)
• Sutter Hill Ventures (21 founders)
• Upfront Ventures (31 founders)
• Bank of America (18 founders)
• Cleveland Avenue (23 founders)
• FJ Labs (35 founders)

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Narrow San Francisco, CA founders

• Puneet Agarwal · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Sam Teller · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Felicia Parker · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• First Round Capital · San Francisco, CA (16 founders)
• Naval Ravikant · San Francisco, CA (10 founders)
• Lightspeed Venture Partners · San Francisco, CA (7 founders)
• Hadley Harris · San Francisco, CA (5 founders)
• ValueStream Ventures · San Francisco, CA (5 founders)
• Seaplane Ventures · San Francisco, CA (4 founders)
• Prashant Matta · San Francisco, CA (4 founders)
• Adam Rothenberg · San Francisco, CA (4 founders)
• Amir Banifatemi · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Serik Kaldykulov · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Canvas Ventures · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Coinbase · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• San Francisco, CA · Logistics (42 founders)
• Aydin Senkut · San Francisco, CA (11 founders)
• Illuminate Ventures · San Francisco, CA (8 founders)
• Lowercase Capital · San Francisco, CA (6 founders)
• Sierra Ventures · San Francisco, CA (5 founders)
• Luke Nosek · San Francisco, CA (5 founders)
• Atomic Labs · San Francisco, CA (4 founders)
• Paul Vronsky · San Francisco, CA (4 founders)
• Outset Capital · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Brendan Wallace · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Ed Sim · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Hack VC · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Max Levchin · San Francisco, CA (3 founders)
• Founders Fund · San Francisco, CA (13 founders)
• Joe Montana · San Francisco, CA (9 founders)

Other founder hubs

• Watertown, MA (14 founders)
• Woburn, MA (13 founders)
• Cleveland, OH (13 founders)
• London, UK (410 founders)
• Austin, TX (209 founders)
• Paris, France (123 founders)
• San Jose, CA (107 founders)
• Miami, FL (83 founders)
• Atlanta, GA (68 founders)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil (64 founders)
• Toronto, Canada (57 founders)
• Tokyo, Japan (50 founders)
• Mexico City, Mexico (38 founders)
• Lagos, Nigeria (37 founders)
• Stockholm, Sweden (35 founders)
• Irvine, CA (31 founders)
• Salt Lake City, UT (29 founders)
• Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (28 founders)
• Vancouver, BC, Canada (27 founders)
• Zurich, Switzerland (24 founders)
• St. Louis, MO (22 founders)
• Toronto, ON, Canada (21 founders)
• Beijing, China (19 founders)
• Buenos Aires, Argentina (19 founders)

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