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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