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Miles Grimshaw

Partner at Thrive Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Miles Grimshaw is a Partner at Thrive Capital in San Francisco, with a background in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and board director roles in companies like Benchling and Monzo Bank. He has successfully invested in companies like Glide Apps and Supergreat, demonstrating a strong track record in identifying and supporting successful startups. Grimshaw's career highlights include serving as a General Partner at Benchmark and making strategic investments in companies like Lattice, showcasing his expertise in fundraising, due diligence, and team leadership within the startup ecosystem.

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.

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