{"id":644702,"date":"2024-11-20T03:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ben-lings-bling-capital-has-already-nabbed-another-270m-for-fourth-fund\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T03:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:45:57","slug":"ben-lings-bling-capital-has-already-nabbed-another-270m-for-fourth-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ben-lings-bling-capital-has-already-nabbed-another-270m-for-fourth-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ben Ling\u2019s Bling Capital has already nabbed another $270M for fourth fund"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Bling Capital, one of the more prolific and well-connected seed VC firms, has nabbed another $270 million for a new flagship fourth fund. About half of those fresh millions are earmarked for its opportunity fund, money set aside to make follow-on investments into winners, Bling general<\/a> partner Kyle Lui tells TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

Bling<\/a> is the firm founded in 2018 by Ben Ling, a former general partner at Khosla Ventures, where he backed such companies as GitLab and Webflow. He earned his Valley street cred from exec roles at Google, YouTube, and Facebook<\/a>. He also became such a stellar angel investor (Airtable, Lyft, Square, Palantir, others), that it\u2019s clear that seed investing is his true calling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Those experiences shaped his VC firm, which operates what it calls a Product Council, a network of leaders at major tech firms that help advise Bling\u2019s startups. With the new fund, the firm\u2019s network is adding advisors to its roster from a bunch of the hottest startups, including from Notion, OpenAI, Scale AI, and Stripe.<\/a><\/p>\n

All told, Ling has corralled about 19 unicorns under his belt. Lui, who was previously a partner at DCM, has notched at least seven unicorns, including names like DocSend and Hims.<\/p>\n

In its six years, Bling has already invested in 170 companies, it says, including such names as Rippling, and Vise. The new fund isn\u2019t a huge step up from its last one, which launched about two years ago. That one was $212 million total, also split nearly evenly between a new seed fund and an opportunity fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our Technology<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bling Capital, one of the more prolific and well-connected seed VC firms, has nabbed another $270 million for a new flagship fourth fund. About half of those fresh millions are earmarked for its opportunity fund, money set aside to make follow-on investments into winners, Bling general partner Kyle Lui tells TechCrunch. Bling is the firm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fullsizeoutput_56-e1607011180580.jpeg?w=1162","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[152764,152765,74839,151477,152766],"class_list":["post-644702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ben-ling","tag-bling-capital","tag-fundraising","tag-venture","tag-venture-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}