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Gary Benitt(479)

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58 Investors

Connected to Josh Elman (Greylock Partners), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), David Samuel (Freestyle Capital), and 55 other investors on Signal.

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NYU Stern School of Business Network
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Current Investing Position
Social Leverage General Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $500K
Investments On Record
22
Current Fund Size
$43M

Gary Benitt is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Gary Benitt's Investments On Record (13)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Newcase.ai
Pre SeedSep 2025$1M
$1M
Co-investors: George Damouny (Plug & Play Ventures)
Birdwatch
SeedJan 2024$3M
$3M
Co-investors: Ezra Galston (Starting Line)
Logixboard
Series BJan 2022$32M
Series AApr 2021$13M
SeedOct 2019$5M
$50M
Co-investors: Annie Kadavy (Redpoint Ventures), Teddie Wardi (Insight Partners), Ben Gorman (F Prime Capital), Chris DeVore (Founders' Co-op)
Nayya
Series AJan 2021$11M
SeedJun 2020$3M
$69M
Co-investors: Barbry McGann (Workday Ventures), Jeffrey Wald (Stealth Company (Jean-Michel Autelli)), Michael Dixon (Transformation Capital), Sean Song (Viewpoint)
Carpay
Series AJan 2021$7M
SeedFeb 2020$1M
$10M
Co-investors: Curtis Lee
Kustomer
Series CJan 2019$35M
Series BJun 2018$26M
SeedSep 2015$3M
$230M
Co-investors: Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Tomasz Tunguz (Redpoint Ventures), Neeraj Agrawal (Battery Ventures), Deepak Kamra (Canaan Partners), George Damouny (Plug & Play Ventures), John Curtius (Cedar Capital Group), Ed Sim (Boldstart Ventures), Matt Carbonara (Citi Ventures), Eliot Durbin (Boldstart Ventures), Scott Beechuk (Norwest Venture Partners), George Hu, Matt Carbonara
FORWARD Platform
SeedSep 2016$3M
SeedApr 2015$1M
$14M
Co-investors: Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures), Stonly Baptiste Blue (Third Sphere), John Connors (Ignition Partners)
Beyond
Series UnknownAug 2016$2M
SeedMar 2015$2M
$210M
Co-investors: Cyril Ebersweiler (SOSV), Jungju (Jay) Kim (Collaborative Fund (Collab Fund)), Shawn Broderick (SOSV), Don Thompson (Cleveland Avenue), Isabel Fox (Luminous Ventures), Lomax Ward (Outsized Ventures), Eric Wiesen (Bullpen Capital), Gregg Smith (Evolution VC Partners), Kai Tse, Biz Stone, Seth Goldman

Gary Benitt's Experience

General Partner Social Leverage LLC2014 - Present
Managing Partner B Squared Ventures LLC2011 - Present
COO Desk2012 - 2014
VP Operations Salesforce.com2011 - 2014
Founder & COO Assistly, Inc.2009 - 2011
Sr. Tech Dir AOL LLC2008 - 2009
COO Goowy Media, Inc.2004 - 2008
VP, Professional Services and Support eAssist Global Solutions, Inc.1999 - 2004
Director of Technology eShare Communications1996 - 1999
PC Support Bloomberg, L.P.1993 - 1994

Gary Benitt's Education

NYU Stern School of Business BS Finance, Information Systems