Benchmark breaks its own rule with a $2bn raise and a first growth fund
The discipline was the whole identity. For more than twenty years Benchmark kept its funds around $425m and backed only young companies, taking a roughly 20% stake in each and trusting that selectivity, not scale, would produce the returns. That model has now bent. The firm has closed $2bn across two new funds, according to […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
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