Another VC Boomerang: Benchmark General Partner Grimshaw Leaves for Thrive

Miles Grimshaw, a general partner at Benchmark, is leaving the firm to rejoin Thrive Capital, the New York venture capital firm where he started his career in 2013, according to a Thrive spokesperson.

Grimshaw’s departure represents a rare resignation from Benchmark, a storied early-stage venture firm with early bets on Twitter, Uber and Snap. The firm has only six general partners, including Grimshaw, who joined the firm three years ago at age 29. His exit bolsters the investing ranks of Josh Kushner’s Thrive, which has been raising increasingly large funds to go after big, later-stage bets like Stripe and OpenAI.