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Benchling
Benchling is a San Francisco life-sciences software company founded in 2012 by Sajith Wickramasekara and Ashu Singhal, selling a cloud R&D platform for biotech and pharmaceutical work.
Benchmark (venture capital firm)
Benchmark, also known as Benchmark Capital, is an American venture capital firm founded in 1995 on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, known for its equal partnership.
Benchmark Ai Infrastructure
Benchmark AI Infrastructure is a pair of venture capital funds run by Benchmark partners including Peter Fenton, which raised $223.94 million in 2026 and hold Cerebras Systems shares.
Benchmark Founders
Benchmark Founders is a family of companion limited partnerships of Benchmark, the Woodside, California venture capital firm known for eBay, Uber, and Twitter, not a separate firm.
Bendahara dynasty
The Bendahara dynasty was a Malay ruling house descended from the bendahara, the chief minister of the Johor Sultanate. It ruled Johor from 1699 to 1855 and Pahang to 1884.
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited, also known as Bendigo Bank, is an Australian retail bank formed in 2007 by the merger of Bendigo Bank and Adelaide Bank.
Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons is a technology company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Milan, Italy, that acquires and operates consumer digital products including Evernote, Meetup, WeTransfer, and Vimeo.
Bene Israel (בני ישראל)
Bene Israel (בני ישראל), India's oldest and largest Jewish community, Marathi-speaking oil pressers of the Konkan coast near Mumbai, tracing their origin to a legendary 175 BCE shipwreck; about 5,000 remain in India after emigration to Israel.
Benedetta Berti
Benedetta Berti is an Italian political scientist and security specialist who led NATO policy planning and became Secretary General of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in October 2025.
Benedetta Carlini
Benedetta Carlini (1590–1661) was an Italian abbess of the Theatine convent in Pescia, Tuscany, whose reported visions of Christ were judged feigned, leading to 35 years of solitary confinement.
Benedetto Accolti
Benedetto Accolti, called the Cardinal of Ravenna, was a Florentine cardinal, bishop, and secretary to Pope Clement VII who became a cardinal at 29 before falling from power in 1534.
Benedetto Croce
Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), Italian philosopher, historian, and critic born in Pescasseroli, died in Naples. Founder of La Critica, author of the Philosophy of Spirit and absolute historicism, author of the 1925 Manifesto of Anti-Fascist Intellectuals, minister, and founder of the Italian Institute for Historical Studies.
Benedict Anderson
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (1936–2015), Irish political scientist and Southeast Asia specialist at Cornell, author of Imagined Communities (1983), co-author of the Cornell Paper on Indonesia's 1965 coup, and theorist of nations as imagined communities.
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), American Revolutionary major general and hero of Ticonderoga, Valcour Island, and Saratoga, defected to the British in 1780 in the failed West Point plot, becoming America's synonym for traitor.
Benedict Biscop
Benedict Biscop, born Biscop Baducing (c. 628–690), was a Northumbrian noble turned monk who founded the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow, where Bede trained.
Benedict I
Benedict I was the 62nd pope, a Roman who reigned from 575 until his death in 579, during the Lombard invasion of Italy and a famine that besieged Rome.
Benedict II
Benedict II was the 81st pope, bishop of Rome from June 684 until his death in May 685, a Roman who secured acceptance of Christ's two wills in Spain.
Benedict III
Benedict III was the 104th pope, a Roman cardinal-priest who reigned from September 855 to his death in April 858 after a disputed election against the antipope Anastasius.
Benedict IV
Benedict IV was the 117th pope, a Roman reigning from 900 to 903, best known for crowning Louis the Blind as emperor in Rome in 901.
Benedict Joseph Flaget
Benedict Joseph Flaget (1763–1850) was a French-born Sulpician priest, the first Bishop of Bardstown from 1810 and of Louisville from 1841, remembered as the "First Bishop of the West."
Benedict of Aniane
Benedict of Aniane, born Witiza, was a Gothic noble turned monk who led Carolingian monastic reform as adviser to Emperor Louis the Pious from 814.
Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia, also known as Saint Benedict, was an Italian monk, born around 480, honored as the founder of Western monasticism and author of the Rule of Saint Benedict.
Benedict Peters
Benedict Peters is a Nigerian businessman, born in 1966, who founded and leads Aiteo, an oil and gas producer built on the 2015 OML 29 purchase.
Benedict Pictet
Benedict Pictet (Bénédict Pictet, 1655–1724) was a Genevan Reformed theologian who served as pastor, professor of theology, and rector of the Academy of Geneva.
Benedict VII
Benedict VII was the 135th pope, reigning from 974 to 983. A Roman and former bishop of Sutri, he governed in cooperation with Emperor Otto II and condemned simony.
Benedict VIII
Benedict VIII, born Theophylact, was pope from 1012 to 1024 and the first Tusculani pope; imposed by his family's force, he crowned Henry II emperor in 1014 and freed Sardinia from Muslim forces in 1016.
Benedict Welte
Benedikt Welte (1805–1885) was a German Catholic priest and Old Testament exegete who held the chair of Old Testament exegesis at Tübingen and co-edited the Kirchen-Lexikon.
Benedictines
Benedictines, formally the Order of St Benedict, are monks and nuns living by the Rule of Saint Benedict, written in the sixth century for Monte Cassino.
Benedicto Kiwanuka
Benedicto Kiwanuka (1922–1972) was a Ugandan lawyer and politician who led the Democratic Party and became Uganda's first Prime Minister and first Ugandan Chief Justice.
Beneficence
Beneficence: the bioethical obligation to act for others' benefit, one of Beauchamp and Childress's four principles (with autonomy, nonmaleficence, justice) since 1979; rooted in utilitarianism, central to the Belmont Report's research ethics.