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
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