[10] Cohler was vice president and general manager at LinkedIn and was considered CEO Hoffman's right-hand man.

[9] At Benchmark, Cohler has backed the firm's investments in Dropbox, Asana, Quora, Greenhouse,[13] Domo, Tinder,[14] Duo Security, DeepL, Edmodo, ResearchGate, 1stdibs, Peixe Urbano, CouchSurfing, Baixing, and Zendesk.

[15][16] In 2011, he led a $7 million round of funding for Instagram,[17] which agreed in April 2012 to be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion.

[18] In March 2014, Cohler led Benchmark's investment in Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet/insured cold storage vault.

Although he departed the Benchmark fund, he was expected to continue to hold his board seats, including at Uber.