VC Victor Lazarte is leaving Benchmark to launch his own firm

Two years after the top shelf farm benchmark’s zealous capitalist, Victor Lazart leaving that company to start its own investment gig, he announced Thursday xThe

Lazart became known in Tech for Wildlife Studios, a co-founded mobile gaming company, which was worth $ 1 billion in the last 2021. Wildlife raised money from a lot of VCs, including benchmark.

In Benchmark his two years of years, Laojart hiring and invested in data labeling startups MarkerAI Video Detective Platform Hegen and AI Infrastructure Agency Your deckartThe

Leaving Benchmark to “create a new investment practice” in Lajart, he wrote in the post. He recently informed his portfolio companies about the plan to leave benchmark, according to a source.

The second investor who resigned from Benchmark’s partnership this year in Lajart. Sara Tavel announced in April that she was shifting to one InitiativeThe

After the departure of Lyzart, the partners in the store firm include Peter Fenton, Eric Visiya and Chetan Puttagunta.

Opposite most VC companies, where veteran partners usually receive a larger part of management fees and profits, act as a benchmark a PartnershipAll general partners divide the fees with and give the return evenly. Benchmark and Lazart did not respond with our request for additional comments.