Eric Vishria
General Partner at Benchmark
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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.
Education
BS
1997 - 1999