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Eric Vishria

General Partner at Benchmark

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Eric Vishria is a General Partner at Benchmark in the San Francisco Bay Area, known for his successful investments in companies like Benchling and Amplitude. With a background in tech and a BS from Stanford University, he has a strong track record of supporting and serving on the boards of various startups, including Fireworks AI and Confluent.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2022 - Current

Fireworks AI provides advanced tools for developing and deploying generative AI models.

Raised $77,000,000.00 from Alexandr Wang, Benchmark, MongoDB, Howie Liu, AMD, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA, Databricks Ventures, Sheryl Sandberg and Frank Slootman.

  • General Partner

    2014

Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.

  • Board Member

    2014

Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.

Raised $455,900,000.00 from Axevil Capital, Employee Stock Option Fund and Junipero Capital.

  • Board Member

    2014

Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.

Raised $311,475,000.00 from Covenant Venture Capital.

  • Board Member

    2016

Cerebras Systems is an IT firm that develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.

Raised $715,000,000.00 from IPOSharks and Vishal Rao.

  • Board Member

    2016

  • Board Member

    2018

Benchling is an IT company that provides a cloud-based software platform for biology researchers and research and development organizations.

Raised $411,900,000.00 from Lone Pine Capital, Franklin Templeton and Altimeter Capital.

  • Board Member

    2020

  • Board Member

    2021

AcuityMD develops a medical technology software platform for commercializing and improving medical devices with data.

Raised $83,000,000.00 from StepStone Group, Atreides Management, Artisanal Ventures, Redpoint, Benchmark and ICONIQ Growth.

  • Board Member

    2022

Nile is a startup that intends to build a data system with serverless Postgres at its foundation.

Raised $11,600,000.00 from Elad Gil, Neha Narkhede, Jay Kreps, Dylan Field, Eric Vishria, Akshay Kothari and SV Angel.

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