Risin Ventures Competitors

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build long-standing companies. With more than 150 IPOs and 420-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $19 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer’s storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio).

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.

8VC is a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit www.8VC.com