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What does Benchstrength invest in?
Benchstrength invests most often at Seed and Series A (86% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Enterprise, Consumer and Fintech.
Benchstrength highlights
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4 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 86% of its rounds
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Led 2 rounds
What they do
Benchstrength is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology companies that transform business and uplift communities.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeed
- Sectors
- EnterpriseConsumerFintech
- Based in
- New York, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first7 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Mar
- Mar
- 2025
3 rounds
- Aug
- Jun
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration3 named
JMJohn MonagleManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
KCKenneth Chenault Jr.Managing Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
KIKenneth Irvine ChenaultManaging MemberiForm ADV
We also hold 4 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$73Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Benchstrength Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 325448
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 1 we have independently watched raise
8 Point Studio
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.