Investing Profile

Ken Chenault Jr.

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Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Benchstrength
benchstrengthvc.comNew York, New York
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Benchstrength Managing Partner
$500K - $10.0M
$2.0M
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
The Folklore Group
SeedApr 2024$3M
$5M
Co-investors: Odile Roujol (fab Ventures), Ajay Relan (Slauson & Co.), Yohei Nakajima (Untapped Capital)
Altis Labs
SeedJun 2023$6M
$6M
Gusto
Series CJul 2018$140M
$700M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Dan Rose (Coatue), Pejman Nozad (Pear VC), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Louis Beryl (Andreessen Horowitz), Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Ram Shriram (Sherpalo Ventures), Julia Popowitz (Broadway Angels), Max Levchin (Scifi Vc), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Matt Mullenweg (Audrey Capital), Eric Ries (Long-Term Stock Exchange), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Wesley Chan (FPV Fund), Laela Sturdy (CapitalG), Hiten Shah (FYI), Jason Green (Emergence Capital Partners), Christian Jensen (Dragoneer Investment Group), Jeff Abbott (Blitzscaling Ventures), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Jessica Verrilli (Adverb Ventures), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Mariam Naficy (Heretic Ventures), Matt Rogers (Incite Ventures), Ronald Conway Sr. (NewCo), Jay Simons (Bond), Marco Zappacosta (Thumbtack, Inc.), Aditya Agarwal (South Park Commons), Matt Mickiewicz (Unstoppable Domains), Clara Shih (Gusto), Aston Motes (UnitedMasters), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Aaron Patzer (Vital Software), Seth Sternberg (Auto Insurance Specialists), Ryan Holmes (LOI Venture), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Adam Nash (Gusto), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp.com), Matt Humphrey (Quiet Capital), Tien Tzuo, Erick Tseng, Justin Rosenstein, Larry Augustin, Jeff Seibert, Doug Sleeter, Charlie Cheever, Dharmesh Shah, Tobias Lutke, Kris Duggan, Phil Libin, Josh Silverman, Drew Houston, Sam Altman, Aaron Levie, Jared Leto
Beauty Bakerie Cosmetics Brand
Seed RoundOct 2017$3M
$20M
Co-investors: Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Jaisa Minor (New Voices Fund)
Compass
Seed RoundDec 2012$8M
$1.1B
Co-investors: Sandy Miller (IVP), Todd Chaffee (IVP), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Moritz Baier-Lentz (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jonathan Keidan (Torch Capital), Jordan Fudge (Sinai Ventures), Mitchell Green (Lead Edge Capital), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), Sean Seton-Rogers (Pro Founders Capital), Allen Morgan (Venture Sherpa/Active Angel Investor), Daniel Recanati (Earth and beyond ventures), Amir Banifatemi (K5 Ventures), Cyrus Massoumi (Humbition), Ken Howery (Unknown Ventures), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Marc Benioff, Anil Sethi, Oliver Thylmann