John Monagle

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Benchstrength

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2021
VC🌍 United States
11
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Board Observer
Sep 2021
At Blank Street, we’re on a mission to become the defining food and beverage brand of our generation. From the very beginning, we’ve set out to add a spark to ordinary experiences through elevated products, attention-to-detail, and a commitment to making every moment memorable. We’re motivated by the millions of customers we serve across cities, and know that our potential is unlimited. It all starts with our people and their commitment to make magic happen each and every day.
Investor
May 2021
Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way to search and sustainably sample design materials. Executing complex searches across hundreds of brands in seconds, architects and designers can find and order all the material samples they need in one place. Samples ordered by midnight (ET) are shipped carbon neutral in a single box and delivered by 10:30 AM the next day. The future of sampling is here.
Investor
Mar 2021
RingCentral Events is your go-to platform for running personalized, AI-powered events that reflect your brand and foster community. From planning to execution, our comprehensive solution covers every aspect of in-person, virtual, and hybrid event management, ensuring your events create a lasting impression. With features like custom branding, interactive engagement tools, 40+ app integrations, and in-depth event analytics, RingCentral Events makes your events seamless and engaging. Trusted by companies like Spotify, HubSpot, and Square, its the go-to platform for businesses of all sizes.. Transform your event strategy with RingCentral Events.
Investor
Jan 2021
Bloom & Wild is re-inventing the $60B global flower industry. Over a billion flower exchanges take place every year and industry satisfaction levels are low. Driven by our core belief that you can never care too much or be too thoughtful, we do things a little differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. And we’ve seen impressive traction to date. We are Europe’s largest direct to consumer flower company. As the inventor of letterbox flowers, Bloom & Wild is powered by great ideas that are rooted in continuously improving the experience for our customers. On a mission to make sending and receiving flowers the joy it should be for both the sender and the recipient, we promise beautiful, brilliantly-designed letterbox surprises and make-a-statement bouquets. Our flowers are sent as the freshest buds, carefully packed and ready to bloom for arrangements that last. The result is almost 60k five star reviews and the status of the UK’s most-loved online florist. Since launching in 2013 we’ve raised £126m of venture capital and private equity funding from investors including General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Burda Principal Investments and MMC Ventures. We’ve been named one of the 5 fastest growing tech companies in Europe and are alumni of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty. We were also one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Small Companies to Work For 2020. We’ve got a brilliant ideas-led innovation culture. And we’re looking for people from all backgrounds to help drive our next exciting stage of growth. If you’re interested in joining us, please take a look at our open roles on our jobs tab. Bloom & Wild acquired bloomon in April 2021 and Bergamotte in July 2021, cementing our position as Europes leading online flower company. Together, we are active in 8 countries. We are home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte.
late stageRetail
Investor
Jan 2021
Multiverse is the upskilling platform for AI and tech adoption. We’ve built a new model for transforming today’s workforce by combining expert human coaching with AI. Our learning drives real business impact and helps organisations close critical skills gaps - especially in data, AI and all things tech. We’ve already partnered with over 1,500 global organisations to transform their workforce through tech skills. Trusted by Microsoft, Mars, John Lewis Partnership and many more to upskill their team and unlock people’s potential and output. In 2022, we raised our $220m Series D funding - one of the largest venture rounds in EdTech history. We’re proud to be backed by some of the world’s biggest investors, including General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners and StepStone Group. We deliver a new kind of learning that boosts productivity and prepares talent for jobs of the future. We’re building a world where tech skills unlock people’s potential and output. And in doing so, providing equal access to economic opportunity - for everyone.
Investor
Oct 2020
Cazoo. Right for You. Search over 230,000 used cars from 6,000 dealers nationwide.
Investor
Aug 2016
Deliveroo is an award-winning delivery service founded in 2013 by William Shu and Greg Orlowski. Deliveroo works with approximately 176,000 best-loved restaurants and grocery partners, as well as around 150,000 riders to provide the best food delivery experience in the world. Deliveroo is headquartered in London, with offices around the globe. Deliveroo operates across 9 markets, including Belgium, France, Italy, Ireland, Qatar, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and the United Kingdom.
Investor
May 2016
Contrast Security is the world’s leader in Runtime Application Security, embedding code analysis and attack prevention directly into software. Contrast’s patented security instrumentation disrupts traditional AppSec approaches with integrated and comprehensive security observability that delivers highly accurate assessment and continuous protection of an entire application portfolio. The Contrast Runtime Security Platform enables powerful Application Security Testing and Application Detection and Response, allowing developers, AppSec teams, and SecOps teams to better protect and defend their applications against the ever-evolving threat landscape. Application Security programs need to modernize and Contrast empowers teams to innovate with confidence.
Investor
May 2016
Visor is the worlds most connected spreadsheet. Unlike disconnected spreadsheets and complicated integrations, Visor unifies three crucial capabilities in one product: Visor is flexible to evolve as your needs do, it has built-in two-way integrations you can trust, and its real-time collaboration features bring everyone together. Achieve amazing things by bringing people and data together in one place with Visor.
Investor
Dec 2015
Preempt secures all workforce identities to accelerate digital transformation. Since 80% of all breaches involve compromised credentials, Preempt unifies security visibility and control for on-premises and cloud identities. Threats are preempted and IT policy enforced in real-time using identity, behavioral, and risk analytics. Preempt protects 4M+ workforce identities across 400+ enterprises. Customers have reduced the cost required to stop advanced threats and accelerate Zero Trust and Conditional Access initiatives. Founded in 2014, Preempt is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with R&D in Israel and sales offices worldwide.
Board Observer
Aug 2015
As a leading global provider of security and cloud-based software solutions purpose-built for MSPs, Datto, a Kaseya company, believes there is no limit to what SMBs can achieve with the right technology. Datto’s proven Unified Continuity, Networking, and Business Management solutions drive cyber resilience, efficiency, and growth for MSPs. Delivered via an integrated platform, Datto’s solutions help its global ecosystem of MSP partners serve over one million businesses around the world. From proactive dynamic detection and prevention to fast, flexible recovery from cyber incidents, Datto’s solutions defend against costly downtime and data loss in servers, virtual machines, cloud applications, or anywhere data resides.
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2022
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Apr 2022
Benchstrength is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology companies that transform business and uplift communities. Based in NYC, Benchstrength invests in pre-seed and seed stage software and technology-enabled businesses across enterprise, consumer, fintech, and healthcare.
2021
Board Observer
Sep 2021
At Blank Street, we’re on a mission to become the defining food and beverage brand of our generation. From the very beginning, we’ve set out to add a spark to ordinary experiences through elevated products, attention-to-detail, and a commitment to making every moment memorable. We’re motivated by the millions of customers we serve across cities, and know that our potential is unlimited. It all starts with our people and their commitment to make magic happen each and every day.
Investor
May 2021
Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way to search and sustainably sample design materials. Executing complex searches across hundreds of brands in seconds, architects and designers can find and order all the material samples they need in one place. Samples ordered by midnight (ET) are shipped carbon neutral in a single box and delivered by 10:30 AM the next day. The future of sampling is here.
Investor
Mar 2021
RingCentral Events is your go-to platform for running personalized, AI-powered events that reflect your brand and foster community. From planning to execution, our comprehensive solution covers every aspect of in-person, virtual, and hybrid event management, ensuring your events create a lasting impression. With features like custom branding, interactive engagement tools, 40+ app integrations, and in-depth event analytics, RingCentral Events makes your events seamless and engaging. Trusted by companies like Spotify, HubSpot, and Square, its the go-to platform for businesses of all sizes.. Transform your event strategy with RingCentral Events.
Investor
Jan 2021
Bloom & Wild is re-inventing the $60B global flower industry. Over a billion flower exchanges take place every year and industry satisfaction levels are low. Driven by our core belief that you can never care too much or be too thoughtful, we do things a little differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. And we’ve seen impressive traction to date. We are Europe’s largest direct to consumer flower company. As the inventor of letterbox flowers, Bloom & Wild is powered by great ideas that are rooted in continuously improving the experience for our customers. On a mission to make sending and receiving flowers the joy it should be for both the sender and the recipient, we promise beautiful, brilliantly-designed letterbox surprises and make-a-statement bouquets. Our flowers are sent as the freshest buds, carefully packed and ready to bloom for arrangements that last. The result is almost 60k five star reviews and the status of the UK’s most-loved online florist. Since launching in 2013 we’ve raised £126m of venture capital and private equity funding from investors including General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Burda Principal Investments and MMC Ventures. We’ve been named one of the 5 fastest growing tech companies in Europe and are alumni of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty. We were also one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Small Companies to Work For 2020. We’ve got a brilliant ideas-led innovation culture. And we’re looking for people from all backgrounds to help drive our next exciting stage of growth. If you’re interested in joining us, please take a look at our open roles on our jobs tab. Bloom & Wild acquired bloomon in April 2021 and Bergamotte in July 2021, cementing our position as Europes leading online flower company. Together, we are active in 8 countries. We are home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte.
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