# Rich Barton

> Rich Barton is a seed investor at Benchmark backing Internet and Mobile. See 30 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richbarton
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Rich_Barton

Rich Barton is a seed investor at Benchmark in Seattle focused on Internet and Mobile. Rich Barton is co-founder and the CEO of Zillow and served as the company's first chief executive officer from 2005 until September 2010.Before co-founding Zillow, Barton served as the president, chief executive officer, and board director at IPO in 1999, and remained as CEO until 2003. Barton co-founded

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 5 | 17% |
| Mobile | 4 | 13% |
| Travel | 3 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 10% |
| Social Media | 3 | 10% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 23% |
| Series A | 7 | 23% |
| Series D | 4 | 13% |
| Series C | 3 | 10% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nextdoor | Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $18.6M | Post-IPO Equity | Jan 17, 2023 | http://nextdoor.com |
| Nextdoor | Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $170M | Series H | May 14, 2019 | http://nextdoor.com |
| Sigma IQ | Sigma IQ can dramatically improve your matching reconciliations.Since Sigma IQ requires no implementation, we can demo our patent-pending solution using your actual data. | $3.5M | Seed | Jan 23, 2019 | https://www.sigmaiq.com/ |
| RealSelf | RealSelf brings transparency to the elective medical & aesthetic treatment market which represents a wide range of services—from a simple skin treatment to cosmetic surgery. At the heart of RealSelf is a community of people sharing personal experiences, unbiased stories, and candid advice. Thousand of medical experts also participate onRealSelf. Doctors and clinicians have posted over two million answers to questions and routinely upload educational videos, special offers, and patient before & after photos. |  | Series C | Aug 10, 2018 | https://www.realself.com |
| Inspo Network | Inspo is a Creator-driven media company transforming the $50B lifestyle market for creators, consumers, and brands. Inspo helps leading Creators inspire their audiences through original, short-form premium video experiences. Its video platform creates thousands of original, television-quality shows reaching more than 120 million loyal viewers.Inspo enables Brands to integrate their products into Creator videos with ease, certainty and scale. | $5.5M | Seed | Jun 13, 2018 | http://insponetwork.com |
| Pioneer Square Labs | Pioneer Square Labs is a studio that creates and launches technology startups. They provide market research, concept validation, engineering, data science, visual, UX design, and product management services. They also provide recruiting, fundraising, marketing, company formation, finance, operations, legal, and HR services. | $15M | Series B | Jan 18, 2018 | https://psl.com |
| Artsy | Artsy is the world’s largest online art marketplace. Browse over 1 million artworks by iconic and emerging artists from 4000+ galleries and top auction houses. | $50M | Series D | Jul 18, 2017 | http://artsy.net |
| Pike13 | Pike13 is a comprehensive, mobile-first, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides cloud-based client management tools to the personal services economy. The technology is optimized to work on smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers to enable personal service businesses, which are inherently mobile, the ability to run their businessesfrom anywhere, at any time.This market includes fitness and yoga studios, dance and music schools, physical therapists, acupuncturists, adventure guides, tutors, teachers, and other businesses and franchises. Using Pike13, business owners can easily manage client relationships, automate billing, securely process credit cards, schedule classes and appointments, track attendance, automate email marketing, and create a customized and branded client-facing experience.The company debuted in spring 2013 and has already improved the efficiency and profitability of several hundred personal services businesses. | $3.5M | Series A | Jan 04, 2016 | http://pike13.com |
| Pioneer Square Labs | Pioneer Square Labs is a studio that creates and launches technology startups. They provide market research, concept validation, engineering, data science, visual, UX design, and product management services. They also provide recruiting, fundraising, marketing, company formation, finance, operations, legal, and HR services. | $12.5M | Series A | Oct 01, 2015 | https://psl.com |
| Nextdoor | Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $110M | Series D | Mar 04, 2015 | http://nextdoor.com |

10 of 30 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Second Avenue Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/second-avenue-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Version One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/version-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Allen & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allen-and-company) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Benchmark

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Benchmark invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs building startups into transformational companies. They focus on early-stage venture investing in mobile, marketplaces, social, and infrastructure and enterprise software. Founded in 1995, the firm has offices in Woodside and San Francisco, California.The firm has been recognized for itscommitment to open source and is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The five equal general partners who take board seats and a hands-on approach to every entrepreneur and company they back, with no junior investment staff. Current general partners are Chetan Puttagunta, Sarah Tavel, Victor Lazarte, Peter Fenton, and Eric Vishria. Benchmark has had 37 exits since beginning of 2011; 14 IPOs and 23 M&As representing a total market value of more than $60 billion.Benchmark’s current portfolio of early-stage venture investments includes private market leaders such as Uber, Snapchat, Tinder, Stitch Fix, Elastic and Cyanogen; recent IPOs and acquisitions such as Twitter, Instagram, Yelp, League of Legends, Jasper, OpenTable, New Relic, Hortonworks, Amplitude, Confluent, GrubHub, Zendesk and Zillow; and franchise companies from Juniper to eBay to Red Hat.

5 contacts available at Benchmark.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Dunlevie | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-dunlevie |
| Chetan Puttagunta | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chetan-puttagunta |
| Peter Fenton | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-fenton |
| Alex Balkanski | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-balkanski |
| Ben Rubin | Entrepreneur In Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-rubin |

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## FAQ

### What does Rich Barton invest in?

Rich Barton invests primarily in Internet, Mobile and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Rich Barton?

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### When did Rich Barton last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rich Barton closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 30 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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