Andrew Benson - Founder & Chief Executive Officer @ Hill - Crunchbase Person Profile

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Overview

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Primary Job Title Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Primary Organization
Hill

Location San Francisco, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

Investor Type
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Website benson.vc
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Andrew Benson is the Founder & CEO at Hill (Hill.com) and Co-Founder @ River Financial (River.com).

Personal Investments

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has made

investments. Their latest investment was

Series A - Lava

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Lava	—	Series A - Lava	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Risegram	—	Pre Seed Round - Risegram	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Ellis	No	Seed Round - Ellis	obfuscated obfuscation

Jobs

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has

current jobs as

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

at

and

Co-Founder

at

. Additionally,

has had

past jobs including

President & Chief Operating Officer

at

.

Hill Founder & Chief Executive OfficerJan 2025
River Co-FounderFeb 2019

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
River	President & Chief Operating Officer	2019	2022
Benson Media	CEO & Founder	Nov 2009	Dec 2018
ShoutcastCity	CEO & Founder	Aug 2011	Sep 2017
DJAB Hosting	CEO & Founder	Mar 2010	Jul 2013

Related Hubs

Hub Name	CB Rank (Hub)
Western US FinTech Companies with Seed Funding	53,670
California Seed Stage Companies With Fewer Than 10 Employees	7,894
FinTech Seed Stage Companies With Fewer Than 100 Employees	12,713
San Francisco Companies With Fewer Than 10 Employees (Top 10K)	6,716
United States FinTech Companies with Seed Funding	40,541
FinTech Seed Stage Companies With Fewer Than 1000 Employees	12,296
San Francisco Bay Area Seed Stage Companies With Fewer Than 1000 Employees	8,441
San Francisco Bay Area Seed Stage Companies (Top 10K)	8,242
FinTech Seed Stage Companies With Fewer Than 10 Employees	21,566
Western US Marketplace Companies with Seed Funding	70,436

Education

studied at

The Ohio State University

and

Stanford University

.

The Ohio State University B.S.Information Systems20132017
Stanford University Graduate StudiesInternational Security20182019

Recent News and Activity

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Funding Round•

Dec 9, 2024

Lava raised

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from Andrew Benson and 25 other investors

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Funding Round•

Jul 4, 2023

Risegram raised

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from Andrew Benson

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Funding Round•

Apr 14, 2022

Ellis raised

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from Adapt Ventures and 23 other investors

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