A venture capital firm with its headquarters in San Francisco, Benchmark Capital focuses mostly on early-stage venture investing in numerous social, mobile, local, and software firms.
More than 250 early-stage firms received investment from the company, which has returned more than $22 billion to investors.
The fact that everyone of Benchmark Capital's six full-time partners shares earnings equally, with no distinction made between their junior partners and senior partners, makes the company famous for developing the first equal ownership and remuneration structure for its partners.