Benchmark is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in AI, open-source, marketplaces, infrastructure and enterprise software. Based in San Francisco and Woodside, Benchmark works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies.
Benchmark's $425 million fund is comprised of equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company we back, with no junior investment staff.
Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes AI-native companies such as Cerebras, Cursor, DeepCogito, Fireworks AI, Greptile, HeyGen, LangChain, Legora, Manus AI, Reducto and Sema4.ai; public companies such as Asana, Amplitude, Confluent, Elastic, New Relic, Nextdoor, Stitch Fix, Snap, and Uber; and Fortune 500 companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.
About FinTech Group AG
FinTech Group AG (WKN: FTG111, ISIN: DE000FTG1111, Ticker: FTK.GR) operates with flatex one of the leading and fastest growing online brokerage businesses in Europe. Executing more than 12 million customer’s securities transactions paperless per annum. Offering their more than 280,000 own B2C customers top services at a competitive pricing based on their modern, self-developed state-of-the-art technology.
Many B2B customers, the state infrastructure and established financial services companies as well as disruptive business ideas benefit from FinTech Group’s white label banking technology and become quickly successful businesses due to the self-developed core banking system (FTG:CBS) that belongs to the most modern and most modular systems in the market. In times of bank consolidation, low interest rates and digitisation, FinTech Group is ideally positioned for further growth and well on its way to becoming Europe‘s leading provider of financial technology.
Vertex Financial is a full service working capital finance firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas serving clients nationwide. Vertex specializes in accounts receivable funding and light asset based lending.
Known for its footprint in the construction industry, Vertex has made a name for themselves for doing "outside of the box" deals over the 21 years they have been in business.
The primary industries served by Vertex are: oilfield services, temporary staffing services, manufacturing, distribution & wholesale, transportation services, and sub-contractors.
Vertex can also serve companies who are start-ups, have progressive or milestone billing, government contracts, minor tax liens, or pre-petition financial needs.
Vertex strives to overcome obstacles that traditional lenders cannot.