Bessemer Venture Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital company with investments in companies ranging from seed-stage to growth. The company has over $4 billion invested in the companies in its portfolio. It has other offices in places such as New York City, Boston, Israel, and India.
Product
As of 2019, the company has raised ten venture capital funds, four of which were over $1 billion. It is known for backing seed-stage, Series A, and Series B companies. Bessemer Venture Partners state that they intentionally invest early in a company so that they can see it through its growth stage.
Notable investments that the company have made include Pinterest, LinkedIn, Blue Apron, Shopify, and Fiverr.
Community Involvement
The company has created a fellowship program for college students. The Bessemer Fellowship Program places qualified college students with growing technology companies in the Bay Area. The students work at said company for eight to 12 weeks where they can learn skills and the operations that take place in start-up companies.
Timeline
Bessemer Venture Partners was founded.
Funded Companies
SymantecSymantec is a Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California-based company founded by Gary Hendrix, Doug Monahan and Earl Sacerdoti.
TIBCO SoftwareA software company offering a suite of business intelligence and analytics products and services.
Palo Alto, California
SkypeCommunications company, now a subsidiary of Microsoft.
Luxembourg City
TwilioA cloud communications platform for building SMS, Voice & Messaging applications on an API built for global scale that was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
San Francisco
California
United States
SnapdealA company operating an online marketplace for products such as mobile devices, electronics, apparel and accessories.
New Delhi
SisenseA software company offering a platform for data analysts and data engineers to transform data into actionable business insights.
London
Tokyo
Tel Aviv
Scottsdale, Arizona
New York City
Israel
Melbourne
Box (company)A cloud content management company. It was founded in 2005 and has headquarters located in Redwood City, California.
Redwood City, California
ShopifyShopify is an Ottawa-based cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses, founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke.
Berlin
Ottawa
Stockholm
Singapore
Sydney
Vilnius
Vancouver
Toronto
Waterloo, Ontario
Shenzhen
Montreal
Bangalore
ScaleFactorScaleFactor is an Austin, Texas-based SaaS company offering services in bookkeeping and accounting.
Austin, Texas
Fabric (insurance company)Fabric Insurance is a Brooklyn-based digital insurance broker.
Brooklyn
QualcommAn American global semiconductor and telecommunications company.
San Diego
K HealthK Health is an AI-powered health app that empowers consumers with health information based on the experiences of others.
New York
ZapierZapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use.
PinterestPinterest is a photo sharing, publishing website, social media web and mobile application company.
Life360
FiverrFiverr is an online freelance marketplace for creative and professional services.
Kenna SecurityA technology company offering a software-as-a-service risk and vulnerability intelligence platform for measuring rick and prioritizing remediation efforts.
Second MeasureA company developing platform that analyzes consumer credit card transactions to help companies understand consumer behavior, performance, and rank against their competitors.
San Mateo, California
GainsightGainsight, Inc. is a privately held service as a software company founded in 2009 by Jim Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
F5 Networks
Seattle
ZestfulA company providing team activity subscription for companies
Denver
EloquaEloqua is a Virginia-based company founded by Mark Organ.
PagerDutyPagerDuty is company providing an operations performance platform for small, mid-size and enterprise. It participated in the S10 cohort of Y Combinator.
CanvaCanva is a company operating as an online graphic design platform. It provides users with a drag-and-drop design tool and a library of stock photographs, graphic elements and fonts.
Australia
ScyllaDBA software company offering a NoSQL database compatible with Apache Cassandra.
Associated investment funds
People
Ambar Bhattacharyya
Employee
Andrew Hedin
Employee
Andrew Walsh
Employee
Aneesha Raghunathan
Employee
Anna Khan
Employee
Ashley Elsner
Employee
Babak Nivi
Employee
Ben Donald
Employee
Ben Mathews
Employee
Brian Feinstein
Employee
Brian Truong
Employee
Byron Deeter
Employee
Chris Dixon
Employee
Chris Farmer
Employee
Christopher Perusse
Employee
David Cowan
Employee
David Wehrs
Employee
Ethan Kurzweil
Employee
Fred Shilmover
Employee
Gabrielle Preiser
Employee
Jason Putorti
Employee
Jeff Epstein
Employee
Jeremy Levine
Employee
Justin Label
Employee
Kent Bennett
Employee
Further reading
Bessemer Venture Partners has a brand new $1.85B fund
Kate Clark
Web
October 25, 2018
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners
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References
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