Eric Vishria
General Partner at Benchmark
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2014 - Current
Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, infrastructure, and enterprise software.
Board Member
2014
Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Raised $455,900,000.00 from Axevil Capital, Employee Stock Option Fund and Junipero Capital.
Board Member
2016
Cerebras Systems is an IT firm that develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Raised $715,000,000.00 from IPOSharks and Vishal Rao.
Board Member
2016
Board Member
2018
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 Member
2020
Board Member
2021
AcuityMD develops a medical technology software platform for commercializing and improving medical devices with data.
Raised $83,000,000.00 from StepStone Group, Atreides Management, Artisanal Ventures, Redpoint, Benchmark and ICONIQ Growth.
Board Member
2022
Nile is a startup that intends to build a data system with serverless Postgres at its foundation.
Raised $11,600,000.00 from Elad Gil, Neha Narkhede, Jay Kreps, Dylan Field, Eric Vishria, Akshay Kothari and SV Angel.
Board Member
2022
Fireworks AI provides advanced tools for developing and deploying generative AI models.
Raised $77,000,000.00 from Alexandr Wang, Benchmark, MongoDB, Howie Liu, AMD, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA, Databricks Ventures, Sheryl Sandberg and Frank Slootman.
Board Member
2023
Education
BS
1997 - 1999