Nine partners moved directly between the twelve marquee funds — Benchmark and General Catalyst churned most
Asked:“Which partners moved between VC funds in the last decade? Consider only moves to or from the following VC funds: Accel, Sequoia, Index, Benchmark, a16z, Thrive, Lightspeed, GC, Menlo, Spark, Green Oaks, KP.”
A web-documented census of 26 partner-level move events by 25 people, 2 September 2016 – 2 September 2026, each touching at least one of the twelve named funds. Miles Grimshaw appears twice — Thrive → Benchmark in 2020 and back in 2024. Two moves ride the General Catalyst acquisition of Venture Highway; two rows carry lower confidence on timing or direction.
Each arrow is one move, placed at its year, running from the origin fund's lane to the destination's. Named funds hold their own lanes; every other firm shares the grey “outside firms” lane with the firm named at the arrowhead or tail. Colour = origin fund. Dashed grey = date not resolved or lower confidence. Hover an arrow for the person, titles and sources.
Direct moves inside the named list: 8 confident — Boyle (GC→a16z ’16), Fushman (Index→KP ’18), Lixandru (Accel→Sequoia ’20), Grimshaw (Thrive→Benchmark ’20, back ’24), Esserman (Lightspeed→Accel ’21), Randle (KP→Benchmark ’25), Love (Lightspeed→a16z ’26); a ninth, Victor Lazarte Thrive→Benchmark, is not fully dated.
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Benchmark and General Catalyst each touch 6 of the 26 moves — Benchmark almost entirely as a hirer (Tavel, Puttagunta, Grimshaw, Randle), GC as both hirer and talent exporter.
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Six spinouts into newly founded firms: Haun Ventures (Katie Haun, ex-a16z), Pace (Chris Paik, ex-Thrive), Matter (Haomiao Huang, ex-KP), Verdict (Niko Bonatsos) and Duration (Trevor Oelschig) out of GC, and Shine (Mo Koyfman, ex-Spark, timing lower-confidence).
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One acquisition-led transition: General Catalyst's purchase of India's Venture Highway carried co-founder Neeraj Arora and partner Priya Mohan onto the GC team.
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The only repeat mover is Miles Grimshaw, whose 2024 return to Thrive is the sole round trip in the window.
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Every move, one row each
| Year | Person | From | To | Titles (from → to) | Type | Source |
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Best-effort census from public web coverage: 65 source rows across two research passes, deduplicated to 26 move events by 25 people, window 2016-09-02 to 2026-09-02. A move counts when origin and destination are venture-investment organizations and at least one is on the user's named list; operating-company jobs, internal promotions and pre-window moves (e.g. Matt Murphy KP→Menlo 2015, Aaref Hilaly Sequoia→Wing) were cut. “n.d.” = date not resolved in sources; Mo Koyfman and Victor Lazarte rows are lower-confidence on timing/direction. Aliases normalized (a16z = Andreessen Horowitz, GC = General Catalyst, KP = Kleiner Perkins, etc.).