VC Victor Lazarte is leaving Benchmark to launch his own firm

After two years as an enterprise capitalist for the top shelf firm benchmark, Victor Lajart is leaving that company to start his investment gig, he announced X on Thursday,

Lazarte co-founder mobile gaming company is known in technology for Wildlife Studio, which was finally given an estimated $ 3 billion price in 2020. Wildlife raised money from VCS crowd including benchmarks.

During its two years in benchmark, Lazarte invested in recruitment and data labeling startups MarserAI Video Intelligence platform Hagen, and AI Infrastructure Company Dect ai,

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

Lajart is the second investor to leave the post from the benchmark partnership this year. Sara Towell announced in April that she was infection in one Venture partner,

The remaining partners in the firm stored after the departure of Lajart include Peter Fanton, Eric Vyacia and Chetan Putaganta.

Unlike most VC firms, where senior partners usually receive a large part of management fees and profits, benchmarks operate as one. Equal participationAll general partners divide fees and equally with returns. The benchmark and Lajart did not immediately respond to our request for additional comments.