name

Benjamin Ling

HQ Location: USA

RANK #8

Benjamin Ling is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Bling Capital. He serves as Advisor at Chowbus. He serves as Advisor at Ignition. He serves as Board Observer at Tempo. He has backed 10 "unicorn" billion-dollar companies, with the best yet to come. He serves as Board Member at Nubrakes. Previously, he was a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS, and consumer health businesses. There, he led investments in Wattpad, Tapingo, Gitlab, True Accord, and Webflow, among many others. Previously, he served in senior operating roles at Google, YouTube and Facebook. He also is an active angel investor with early stakes in Airtable, Lyft, Square, Palantir, Quora, Gusto, Udemy, and others. While at Google, he served as Senior Director of Search and Local Business Products, which included overseeing Google Images, Videos, Books, News, and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platforms, where he was responsible for music, movies, sports, and news, as well as mobile, television, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, he was the founder and general manager of Google's commerce group, which includes Google Wallet and Google Shopping. At Facebook, he was the first director of the Facebook platform and oversaw the development of the company's developer ecosystem. He also led product, marketing, developer operations, and partner solutions. He played a crucial role in developing Facebook Connect, which helped grow Facebook across the web.

Numbers of Unicorns

12

9213

Rank (Xs)

#8

Investments

100

Exits

63

Numbers of Unicorns

12

9213

Rank (Xs)

#8

Investments

100

Exits

63

All Unicorns

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Company name

ENTRY ROUND

VALUATION at entry ($M)

VALUATION 

Udemy

Udemy

Series A1

$5M

798

$3990M

Lyft

Lyft

$5.39M

3818

$20580M

PagerDuty

PagerDuty

$6.49M

273

$1770M

Lucid Software

Lucid Software

Seed

$7M

429

$3000M

Rippling

Rippling

$7.1M

1592

$11300M

Airtable

Airtable

Series A1

$12M

978

$11730M

VTS

VTS

Series A

$16.5M

103

$1700M

Gusto

Gusto

$25M

385

$9630M

Quora

Quora

Series B

$400M

5

$2000M

Zenefits

Zenefits

$500M

4

$2000M

Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies

Series D

$640M

33

$21000M

Block

Block

Series C

$1502.63M

2

$2950M

All $100M+

Company name

ENTRY ROUND

VALUATION at entry ($M)

VALUATION 

1732

Everlane

Series A1

$5M

127

$635M

2553

Indiegogo

$3M

80

$240M

1405

DogVacay

$3.95M

36

$141.6M

952

ChickRx

$5M

50

$250M

4112

Periscope Data

$5M

25

$125M

4170

Pindrop

$5M

90

$450M

1790

Fab

Series A

$6M

167

$1000M

1474

DramaFever

Series A

$6.15M

23

$140M

5806

Tubular (Business/Productivity Software)

Series A

$7M

19

$130M

2314

HelloSign

Series A

$7.99M

22

$177.9M

5570

ThirdLove

$9.26M

75

$695M

654

BranchOut

Series A

$10.79M

12

$125M

2565

inDinero

$12M

9

$104.27M

1119

CompStak

Series A

$14.2M

15

$210M

4342

Printify

$15M

10

$150M

4033

Parse

$22M

15

$332.97M

1221

CSC Generation

Series C

$89.5M

11

$977M

6024

Vise

$96M

10

$1000M

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