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"I do think you'll see some dead unicorns this year," Bill Gurley, a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark, has said.

Mingle raised $125,000 in seed financing from angel investors and Highlight raised money from the esteemed venture capital firm Benchmark Capital and from Charlie Cheever, formerly of Facebook and a co-founder of Quora.

In 1999, a group led by the Silicon Valley venture firm, Benchmark Capital, sunk $65 million in to MVP.com, an Internet venture involving John Elway, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky.

In February, 2011, the venture-capital firm Benchmark became Uber's lead investor, providing twelve million dollars in financing, at a company valuation of sixty million dollars, and a Benchmark partner named Bill Gurley joined Uber's board.

"I would expect that there will be a lot of companies that look at this successful offering and make plans for follow-on offerings," said Robert C. Kagle, a Zipcar board member and partner at venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, one of Zipcar's first major investors.

City officials have no firm benchmarks as they evaluate the success of the effort, saying it will take time to assess the scope of the problem.

Building on Hajer's notions of 'story-lines' and 'discourse coalitions', it argues that recovering the non-human, material components that construct regulation offers sufficiently firm ground for evaluating regulatory power even in the absence of the firm benchmarks assumed by interest accounts.

The new company raised $75m of funding in 2014 from Silicon Valley VC firms Benchmark Capital and Greylock Partners, and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.

It is backed by $75m of funding from venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and Greylock Partners, as well as Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos' personal investment firm.

The venture capital firms Benchmark Capital, Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital are also large stockholders, as is DST Global, a Russian firm that made a fortune on its early investments in Facebook, DealBook writes.