Y Combinator-Backed Benchmark Joins :Harvey:
Harvey today announced its acquisition of New York-based Benchmark, a decision infrastructure platform for asset management. Benchmark helps investors make better decisions by capturing their institutional knowledge and turning it into an edge on new deals. Benchmark’s co-founders, Alec Dunn and Connor Janson, and their team will join Harvey’s product and engineering organization. This marks Harvey’s third acquisition of 2026 and follows a record Q2, in which Harvey added more than $100 million in net-new ARR.
The acquisition accelerates Harvey's asset management business. Harvey already works with 50 asset management firms, including Blue Owl Capital, Bridgewater Associates, and KKR, on workflows such as investment due diligence, data room analysis, and deal document review. Benchmark extends Harvey across the full deal process, from first screen to investment committee. Benchmark's platform is already trusted by firms representing more than $2 trillion in assets under management. Benchmark’s investors include Y Combinator and the Outsiders Fund.
Harvey’s CEO Winston Weinberg said ” When we asked our asset management customers which tools they trusted, Benchmark came up in nearly every conversation. Benchmark is built on a conviction we share: a firm's edge is its institutional knowledge, and AI should help firms capture that knowledge and apply it. We're proud to welcome Benchmark to Harvey.”
Benchmark co-founders Alec Dunn and Connor Janson said “We started Benchmark because a firm's edge lives in the deals it has already seen, and too much of that knowledge stays trapped in folders and in people's heads. We've helped some of the best investment firms in the world put that knowledge to work. Harvey is one of the best application layer companies in the AI space and we already have shared customers, so this is a natural fit.”
The Harvey and Benchmark teams are working together on a thoughtful plan to support existing Benchmark customers with continuity of service as a top priority. Given Harvey and Benchmark’s shared focus on security, compliance, and supporting highly regulated industries, integrating Benchmark’s platform capabilities into Harvey will help all of Harvey’s customer base, including but not limited to asset management firms.
