Profile

Benjamin Ling

Location: USA

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.

NUMBER

#44

Xs

795

Investments

100

Exits

63
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Overview
About Benjamin Ling
Number of Portfolio Companies 12
Location USA

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.

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Company name
ENTRY ROUND
VALUATION at entry ($M)
Xs
VALUATION 
Lyft
$5,39M
3818,18
$20 580M
Rippling
$7,1M
1591,55
$11 300M
Airtable
Series A1
$12M
977,5
$11 730M
Udemy
Series A1
$5M
798
$3 990M
Gusto
Seed
$19,4M
515,46
$10 000M
Lucid Software
Seed
$7M
428,57
$3 000M
PagerDuty
$6,49M
272,73
$1 770M
VTS
Series A
$16,5M
103,03
$1 700M
Palantir Technologies
Series D
$640M
34,38
$22 000M
Quora
Series B
$400M
5
$2 000M
Zenefits
$500M
4
$2 000M
Block
Series C
$1 502,63M
1,96
$2 950M

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2024