Benchmark's Five General Partners to Take One Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Benchmark's full partnership will appear together on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, which runs October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Jack Altman, Peter Fenton, Chetan Puttagunta, Everett Randle and Eric Vishria will discuss where the next generation of startups will emerge and which founder assumptions deserve reconsideration. The session comes after Benchmark raised roughly $2 billion, including a $750 million flagship fund and its first $1.25 billion growth fund — a shift from its concentrated early-stage playbook. The panel will weigh how AI has reshaped venture deployment, including whether defensibility lies in models, infrastructure, proprietary data or distribution. Benchmark partners cite Cerebras as a case study in early conviction: Vishria nearly passed on the 2016 meeting, then co-led a $25 million Series A. Benchmark held a 9.5% stake at Cerebras' IPO.