Ben Ling

Ben Ling

Bling Capital

About

Role

General Partner

Type

Seed fund

Bio

Ben is the Founder and General Partner of Bling Capital. He has backed 10 "unicorn" billion dollar companies, with the best yet to come.

Previously, Ben was a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health businesses. There, he led investments in Wattpad, Tapingo, Gitlab, True Accord, Webflow, among many others.

Previously, Ben served in senior operating roles at Google, YouTube and Facebook. He also is an active angel investor with early stakes in Airtable, Lyft, Square, Palantir, Quora, Gusto, Udemy and others.

About Investments

We invest in anything FAANG companies will buy or build. Our sectors of focus include: Consumer Tech, Internet & Mobile, Marketplace, Data, Fintech, SaaS, Automation, and some frontier-technologies.

Investments

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed, Series A

Check Range

$500K-$1M

Geography

US/Canada

Leads Rounds

Prefers to

Investment Highlights

GitLab, Gusto, Instacart, Lucidchart, Lyft, Palantir, Square, Udemy

Get in touch

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Disclaimers and footnotes

    Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC. Deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank.