Eric Benhamou

Company builder and venture capital investor

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Oct 2020
Evinced is the rapidly-growing technology leader in digital accessibility software, helping enterprises make their web and mobile offerings accessible to everyone. Its AI-enabled products save developer time and reduce risk via proprietary discovery and analysis algorithms that integrate directly into software development pipelines.
Board Member
Mar 2017
Blendid is transforming the way food is prepared and served to meet the unique health and taste preferences of today’s consumers. Blendid offers autonomous robotics food kiosks that use advanced technology – including robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence – to prepare and serve healthy, fresh, and delicious smoothies, known as Blends. Blends are customized and made-to-order based on an individual’s preferences, using only fresh fruit and vegetables. Licensed to food service operators, Blendid requires no full-time staff and can be accessible 24 hours a day, making it perfect for busy cafeterias, supermarkets, gyms, airports, stadiums and offices. Blendid kiosks are currently available in several Northern California locations, but will soon be available nationwide. With an expanding set of locations, Blendid is on a pathway to fulfill its mission to make healthy and delicious eating, at an affordable price, accessible for all.
early stageFood & Beverages
Board Member
Mar 2016
Virtana is the hybrid IT infrastructure management leader, delivering the deepest observability platform to ensure availability, efficiency, and resiliency across complex environments. With advanced AI-powered capabilities, Virtana helps IT teams proactively address issues, streamline operations, and transform infrastructure into strategic assets in todays rapidly evolving digital landscape. In 2023 Virtana Corp. was named: — Top 20 Coolest Cloud Monitoring Companies (Cloud 100) by CRN. — Best Place to Work in the Bay Area by Comparably. — In eight Gartner® reports for innovation in Infrastructure Monitoring and Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). Also, check out our exceptional 4.8 stars Glassdoor and 4.9 stars Comparably company ratings based on our employees feedback. Founded in 2008, more than 150 Global 2000 enterprise customers such as AstraZeneca, Dell, Apple, Geico, Costco, Nasdaq, and Boeing, have long valued Virtanas software solutions.
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Jul 2015
Ayehu has been acquired by Resolve. Named by Gartner Cool Vendor IT Process Automation, Ayehu’s No-Code Intelligent Automation and Orchestration platform use drag-and-drop visual workflow designer to automate IT tasks in minutes. This saves 90% of the time spent remediating incidents, delivers a 55% cost reduction on repetitive manual tasks and cuts ticket by more than 70%. Ayehu’s 200+ Enterprise customers, including F500 companies such as Pitney Bowes and multinational MSPs such as Cognizant and Accenture, are using Ayehu’s platform for its digital labor, increasing their operational efficiency by sending robots to work.
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2025
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Sep 2025
Totango is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Success Platforms Report, but it isn’t customer success software. Totango is a Customer Growth Platform designed to support a new post-Sales paradigm – one focused on driving measurable customer outcomes and building a repeatable, predictable customer growth engine. Totango combines scalable customer management, predictive revenue intelligence, and a strategic post-Sales methodology focused on earning expansion through proof of customer ROI. Revenue leaders across 600 organizations globally—including Schneider Electric, Verint, Docebo, and Meltwater—trust Totango products to drive retention, expansion, and deeper post-Sales revenue rigor. Totango earned 5/5 scores in Roadmap, Innovation, Pricing Transparency & Flexibility, Vision, Retention Optimization, and Scaling Customer Success criterion in the Forrester Wave™.
2020
Board Member
Oct 2020
Evinced is the rapidly-growing technology leader in digital accessibility software, helping enterprises make their web and mobile offerings accessible to everyone. Its AI-enabled products save developer time and reduce risk via proprietary discovery and analysis algorithms that integrate directly into software development pipelines.
2017
Board Member
Mar 2017
Blendid is transforming the way food is prepared and served to meet the unique health and taste preferences of today’s consumers. Blendid offers autonomous robotics food kiosks that use advanced technology – including robotics, machine vision, and artificial intelligence – to prepare and serve healthy, fresh, and delicious smoothies, known as Blends. Blends are customized and made-to-order based on an individual’s preferences, using only fresh fruit and vegetables. Licensed to food service operators, Blendid requires no full-time staff and can be accessible 24 hours a day, making it perfect for busy cafeterias, supermarkets, gyms, airports, stadiums and offices. Blendid kiosks are currently available in several Northern California locations, but will soon be available nationwide. With an expanding set of locations, Blendid is on a pathway to fulfill its mission to make healthy and delicious eating, at an affordable price, accessible for all.
early stageFood & Beverages
2016
Board Member
Mar 2016
Virtana is the hybrid IT infrastructure management leader, delivering the deepest observability platform to ensure availability, efficiency, and resiliency across complex environments. With advanced AI-powered capabilities, Virtana helps IT teams proactively address issues, streamline operations, and transform infrastructure into strategic assets in todays rapidly evolving digital landscape. In 2023 Virtana Corp. was named: — Top 20 Coolest Cloud Monitoring Companies (Cloud 100) by CRN. — Best Place to Work in the Bay Area by Comparably. — In eight Gartner® reports for innovation in Infrastructure Monitoring and Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). Also, check out our exceptional 4.8 stars Glassdoor and 4.9 stars Comparably company ratings based on our employees feedback. Founded in 2008, more than 150 Global 2000 enterprise customers such as AstraZeneca, Dell, Apple, Geico, Costco, Nasdaq, and Boeing, have long valued Virtanas software solutions.
2015
Board Member
Jul 2015
Ayehu has been acquired by Resolve. Named by Gartner Cool Vendor IT Process Automation, Ayehu’s No-Code Intelligent Automation and Orchestration platform use drag-and-drop visual workflow designer to automate IT tasks in minutes. This saves 90% of the time spent remediating incidents, delivers a 55% cost reduction on repetitive manual tasks and cuts ticket by more than 70%. Ayehu’s 200+ Enterprise customers, including F500 companies such as Pitney Bowes and multinational MSPs such as Cognizant and Accenture, are using Ayehu’s platform for its digital labor, increasing their operational efficiency by sending robots to work.
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