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BenchScale Ventures

VC
San Francisco, CAWebsite

BenchScale Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in SaaS, Other, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $200K–$750K checks and has 32 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Seed

Check Size

$200K – $750K

Portfolio

32+ companies

Team

1 partner

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused on early-stage software solutions driving efficiencies in scientific research and collaboration.

How BenchScale Ventures invests

BenchScale Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on SaaS, Other, Enterprise, Security, Fintech.

BenchScale Ventures typically writes checks of $200K–$750K per investment.

BenchScale Ventures has backed 32 companies in our records, including SciTrack, DataStream Labs, Scout RFP (now Workday).

Meet the Team

MZ

Michael Zhang

Partner

Scientific Software
B2B SaaS

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Other
Enterprise
Security
Fintech
Developer Tools
Healthcare
AI / ML

Portfolio Companies (32)

Other

SC

SciTrack

B2B SaaS
DA

DataStream Labs

Research Tech
SC

Scout RFP (now Workday)

Procurement SaaS·Early-stage

Strategic sourcing platform

SU

Superior Scale & Instrument Corp.

BO

Box.com

Cloud/SaaS·Early-stage

Cloud content collaboration platform

CI

CircleCI

DevOps·Early-stage

Continuous integration/continuous delivery platform

CL

CloudHealth

Cloud·Early-stage

Cloud cost management and optimization

DE

DemandBase

Marketing Tech·Early-stage

Account-based marketing platform

EX

ExactTarget

Marketing Tech·Early-stage

Email marketing automation (acq. by Salesforce)

EX

Expel

Cybersecurity·Early-stage

Managed detection and response security

How to pitch BenchScale Ventures
  • Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in SaaS, Other, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $200K – $750K check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Michael Zhang, Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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