Victor Lazarte
General Partner @ Benchmark
San Francisco, United States
Victor Lazarte is a Series A investor at Benchmark in San Francisco focused on Banking and Software. Victor Lazarte is based out of San Mateo, California and he served as General Partner.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
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Industries Victor Lazarte invests in
Stages Victor Lazarte invests in
Countries Victor Lazarte invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$10M
- Series A
- $5.6M–$60M
- Series B
- $100M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Banking 3 (21%)
- Software 3 (21%)
- Financial Services 3 (21%)
- Payments 2 (14%)
- Generative AI 2 (14%)
Stage
- Series A 7 (50%)
- Seed 3 (21%)
- Series B 2 (14%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (7%)
Country
- Brazil 5 (36%)
- United States 5 (36%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Applied Compute is an AI startup that builds custom AI models and Specific Intelligence solutions for enterprises. | $80M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 29, 2025 | ||
| Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next employees. | $350M / Series C / Oct 27, 2025 | ||
| Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models. | $100M / Series B / Aug 07, 2025 | ||
| Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next employees. | $100M / Series B / Feb 20, 2025 | ||
| Decart is an AI platform significantly improves the training and inference of large generative models. | $32M / Series A / Dec 19, 2024 | ||
| Mercor is a better way to hire. We're an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next employees. | $30M / Series A / Sep 19, 2024 | ||
| HeyGen creates AI-generated videos from text, images, or audio, featuring avatars, voiceovers, and translations. It offers hyper-realistic avatars, text-based video editing, and automated multilingual dubbing. Users can also generate product ads, social content, and personalized training or marketing videos at scale. | $60M / Series A / Mar 25, 2024 | ||
| Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations. | $1.3M / Seed / Dec 16, 2022 | ||
| NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life. | $10M / Seed / Jul 28, 2022 | ||
| Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges. | $13.3M / Series A / Dec 08, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Benchmark
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.
Benchmark Contacts
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Bruce Dunlevie
General Partner
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Chetan Puttagunta
General Partner
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Peter Fenton
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Alex Balkanski
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Ben Rubin
Entrepreneur In Residence
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FAQ
What does Victor Lazarte invest in?
Victor Lazarte invests primarily in Banking, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Victor Lazarte invest in?
Victor Lazarte typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$10M at Seed, $5.6M–$60M at Series A and $100M–$100M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Victor Lazarte's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Victor Lazarte took part in.
How do I contact Victor Lazarte?
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When did Victor Lazarte last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Victor Lazarte closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 14 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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