BenchScale Ventures — Seed VC Firm ($200K–$750K Checks)
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.
- Check size
- $200K–$750K
- Portfolio
- 32 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, Other, Enterprise, Security, Fintech, Developer Tools, Healthcare, AI / ML
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-04
Seed
$200K – $750K
32+ companies
1 partner
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).
Partners & Team
Michael Zhang
Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (32)
Other
SciTrack
DataStream Labs
Scout RFP (now Workday)
Strategic sourcing platform
Superior Scale & Instrument Corp.
Box.com
Cloud content collaboration platform
CircleCI
Continuous integration/continuous delivery platform
CloudHealth
Cloud cost management and optimization
DemandBase
Account-based marketing platform
ExactTarget
Email marketing automation (acq. by Salesforce)
Expel
Managed detection and response security
- •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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