Miles Grimshaw
Partner at Thrive Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2013 - Current
Cursor, Chai, Github, Slack, ScaleAI, Gong, Vimeo
Thrive Capital is an investment firm that builds and invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies.
Raised $120,000,000.00 from Petershill Partners.
Board Director
2023
LangChain enables developers to accelerate their LLM application workflows by overseeing the entire project lifecycle.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Sequoia Capital.
Board Director
2015
Led the Seed and Series A
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 Director
2022
Build powerful apps from spreadsheets without code, in minutes.
Raised $23,750,000.00 from First Round, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, Benchmark and SV Angel.
Board Director
2017
Led the Seed and Series A
Lattice is a people success platform that help business leaders develop engaged, high-performing employees, and winning cultures.
Raised $330,320,000.00 from HighSage Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Dragoneer Investment Group, Haystack, Thrive Capital, Fuel Capital, Elad Gil and Shasta Ventures.
Board Director
2017
Led a financing when Monzo had ~15k beta accounts and ~30 people and before the banking license was approved. Served on the board until 2021.
General Partner
2021 - 2024
Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.
Board Director
2018 - 2023
WhatNot acquired in 2023
Supergreat is a beauty community of real people reviewing the beauty products that work for them.
Raised $29,000,000.00 from Shopify, Prosper Capital, Benchmark, TQ Ventures, Third Kind Venture Capital, Shrug Capital, Greenoaks and Thrive Capital.
Board Director
2018 - 2022
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Raised $1,352,600,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, Silver Lake, D1 Capital Partners, Franklin Templeton, T. Rowe Price, Friends & Family Capital, XN, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark and ICONIQ Growth.
Board Director
2019 - 2021
Check is a leading payroll infrastructure provider that allows platforms to build successful payroll businesses.
Raised $119,000,000.00 from Contrary, Stripe, Index Ventures, Mischief, Bedrock, Altman Capital, Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital) and Thrive Capital.