# David Benjamin

> David Benjamin is the co-founder and CEO of JetInsight, the San Mateo software company building what it calls the modern operating system for business aviation. A Princeton-trained electrical engineer with a Stanford MBA, he moved from writing code at Microsoft and crunching numbers as a quantitative analyst to advising airlines at the Boston Consulting Group, then turned that aviation obsession into a product: cloud quoting and fleet-management tools that aircraft charter operators use to run safer, leaner, more profitable businesses. He built the company alongside CTO Lou Montulli, the engineer who invented the web cookie at Netscape.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at JetInsight
- **Organizations:** JetInsight, The Boston Consulting Group, Microsoft, NKK Capital Management
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** High school, Ransom Everglades School, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Master of Business Administration, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads JetInsight, a business-aviation software platform used by aircraft charter operators, Built the company alongside CTO Lou Montulli, inventor of the HTTP cookie and an early Netscape engineer, Grew JetInsight to roughly 44 employees, headquartered in San Mateo, California

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Quantitative analyst at NKK Capital Management
- **early career** — Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
- **pre-2015** — Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group focused on the commercial aviation industry; promoted to post-MBA role and recognized for intellectual leadership and client service
- **2015** — Co-founded JetInsight; joined NFX Class 2 cohort in November 2015
- **2016** — JetInsight raised an early seed round (reported ~$120K)
- **2018** — JetInsight reached a Series A funding stage

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads JetInsight, a business-aviation software platform used by aircraft charter operators
- Built the company alongside CTO Lou Montulli, inventor of the HTTP cookie and an early Netscape engineer
- Grew JetInsight to roughly 44 employees, headquartered in San Mateo, California
- At BCG, earned office awards for intellectual leadership and client service and was promoted to a post-MBA role

## Latest updates

- **2018-04** — JetInsight reported at a Series A funding stage

## Links

- Website: https://jetinsight.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dbenj
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jetinsight
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/jetinsight

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