Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. They work with companies in cloud technologies; virtual and software-defined networking; productivity-based applications; cybersecurity, mobility and the Internet of Things.
Benhamou Global Ventures was founded in 2004 by Eric A. Benhamou and is based in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. Benhamou Global Ventures LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, and late venture.
Benhamou Global Ventures has made 55 investments. One investment was on Jan 8, 2019, when they invested $7.5M in Flytrex. BGV has had 12 exits, the most notable ones including IntelliVision, Cyberinc, and Finjan Holdings. The firm has raised a total of $192M across 3 funds, one of them being BGV Opportunity Fund. This fund was announced on Aug 7, 2018, and raised a total of $40M.
It primarily invests in the high technology companies which includes enterprise Information Technology, cloud infrastructure, business software, and SaaS, web-scale infrastructure, business analytics, emerging Internet of Things, networking and communications, enterprise mobility, and cybersecurity. It seeks to invest in globally with a focus on companies headquartered in the United States of America including Silicon Valley, Israel, and Europe. The firm invests through personal capital.
Bow Capital is a venture capital firm with a mission to help grow companies that use technology to advance society. The firm leverages expertise and connections with the University of California, other funds, incubators, entertainment and media, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs to help companies partnered with achieving escape velocity.
Bow Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. The firm typically invests in the technology sector. Bow Capital was founded in July 2016 by Grady Burnett and Vivek Ranadive and is based in the United States.
Bow Capital has made 12 investments. One such investment was on Mar 14, 2019, when they invested $10M in ArangoDB.The firm has raised a total of $275M in a single venture fund, Bow Ventures Fund I. This fund was announced on Aug 1, 2016, and raised a total of $275M.
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Funded Companies
4iQ is a Los Altos, California-based identity intelligence and fraud detection company.
Particle (formerly Spark.io ) is a technology company that produces low cost Internet of things hardware, software, and connectivity.
Flytrex is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based company founded by Yariv Bash in 2013.
Secret Double Octopus is a Tel Aviv-based artificial intelligence company.
Drishti is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded by Prasad Akella.
Webscale Networks is a company founded in 2012 by Vladimir Shestak, Robert Shires and James Smith.
Webscale Networks, Inc. is a Santa Clara, California-based company founded in 2012 by Vladimir Shestak, Robert Shires and James Smith.
6D Bytes is a robotics company focusing on developing autonomous contactless food kiosks.
Bayshore Networks is a company that provides cyber protection for the Industrial control systems, IoT.
Macrometa Corp. is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2018.
NGD Systems is a company developing data storage and computation products.
IdentityMind Global is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded by Garrett Gafke, Dan Kolkowitz and Kieran Sherlock.
Blue Cedar is a company which develops a mobile application deployment and orchestration platform which offers no-code integration and support for multiple unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions
ConteXtream is a Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California-based company founded by David Gibor, Nachman Shelef and Sharon Barkai.
MadKudu is a Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California-based company founded by Paul Cothenet, Sam Levan and Francis Brero.
Scalefast is a global eCommerce solution that simplifies eCommerce for inspirational brands to make their store the best place to shop online.
platform.sh is a France-based company.
Pyze is a San Francisco-based company.
German Bionic is a robotics company focused on developing and building exoskeletons for use in industrial production.
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Adam Dawkins
Employee
benhvien chunhat
Employee
Crystal Zhang
Employee
Eric Benhamou
Employee
Eric Buatois
Employee
Guilhem Herail
Employee
Jamie Rodota
Employee
Michelle Grabau
Employee
Paul Gassée
Employee
Rafi Syed
Employee
Suraj Patel
Employee
Yashwanth Hemaraj
Employee
Yevgen Kanalosh
Employee
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