{"id":15852,"date":"2026-02-17T23:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jack-altman-joins-benchmark-as-gp\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:56:15","slug":"jack-altman-joins-benchmark-as-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jack-altman-joins-benchmark-as-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This news is a big deal, especially since Altman has been running his own VC firm, Alt Capital, since at least 2024. The fund raised a $150 million Fund I in early 2024 and then, just last September, announced a $274 million Fund II, raised in just a week. On LinkedIn, Altman called the past two years running Alt Capital as an investor &ldquo;the most rewarding&rdquo; of his life, adding that he loved &ldquo;new ideas and being part of a team with a mission.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alt Capital invested in at least 52 companies, according to PitchBook, including Rippling, Antares Nuclear, and CompLabs. It&rsquo;s unclear what happens to Alt Capital or whether Benchmark has acquired its portfolio, as Altman also announced that his teammates from the fund will be following him to Benchmark.&nbsp;(That&rsquo;s also unusual, given Benchmark has historically been structured as flat firm with primarily GPs only, versus layers of investors.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Altman also said he will retain the board seats at the companies he backed while at Alt Capital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Altman, a younger brother of OpenAI co-founder Sam, is also the founder of the HR platform Lattice, which he still chairs, per his LinkedIn profile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner.&nbsp; This news is a big deal, especially since Altman has been running his own VC firm, Alt Capital, since at least 2024. The fund raised a $150 million Fund I in early 2024 and then, just last September,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jack-altman-joins-benchmark-as-gp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}