Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners, established in 1911, is a prominent venture capital firm headquartered in Redwood City, California, with a global presence. The firm invests in early-stage to growth-stage companies across various sectors, including software, TMT, healthcare, fintech, and consumer products. With a portfolio boasting successful companies like Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, and Yelp, Bessemer Venture Partners has a proven track record in helping entrepreneurs build enduring companies. The firm manages multiple funds, totaling over $4 billion in assets, and provides support to founders from seed stage through to growth, fostering long-term relationships with its portfolio companies.

Anurag Begwani

Vice President

Kent Bennett

Partner

Thomas Berger

Partner

Charles Birnbaum

Partner

Sam Bondy

Investor

Sara Byrne

CFO and Partner

Hansae Catlett

Vice President

Aparna Chaganty

Investor

Justina Chung

Vice President

David Cowan

Partner

Brian Cramer

Operating Partner

Mary D'Onofrio

Partner

Sakib Dadi

Vice President

Byron Deeter

Partner

Sameer Dholakia

Partner

John Drake

Investor

Jeff Epstein

Operating Partner

Brian Feinstein

Partner

Adam Ferrara

Partner

Alex Ferrara

Partner

Adam Fisher

Partner

Andrew Geisse

Operating Partner

Talia Goldberg

Partner

Alexa Grabelle

Investor

Sandy Grippo

CFO

Sofia Guerra

Vice President, Cambridge office

Felda Hardymon

Partner

Tess Hatch

Partner

Andrew Hedin

Partner

Nithin Kaimal

COO

Eric Kaplan

Vice President and Investor

Amit Karp

Partner

Hannah Kim

Vice President

Stephen Kraus

Partner

Lindsey Li

Vice President

Grace Ma

Investor

Maha Malik

Investor

Bhavik Nagda

Investor

Aditya Nidmarti

Investor

Bob O'Neil

Venture Partner

Darsh Patel

Investor

Anant Vidur Puri

Partner

Caty Rea

Vice President

Elliott Robinson

Partner and Co-Founder of the Growth Investment Practice

Aia Sarycheva

Vice President

Jason Scheller

Investor

Yael Schiff

Vice President

David Selverian

Investor

Madeline Shue

Investor

Smith, Scott

Operating Partner

Robert Stavis

Partner

Mayo Stuntz

Operating Partner

Alexandra Sukin

Investor

Vatsalya Tandon

Investor

Janice Teng

Vice President

Katherine Walker

Vice President

Christopher Wan

Vice President

Bryan Wu

Partner

Alex Yuditski

Investor

Past deals in Open Source

Fern

Series A in 2025
Fern is a platform for generating software development kits (SDKs), also called client libraries, and application programming interface (API) documentation. Developer-focused companies build with Fern, typically starting by uploading their OpenAPI or Swagger specifications. Fern supports generating SDKs in popular programming languages, including Python, TypeScript, Java, Go, C#, and Ruby. Fern is open source and backed by Y Combinator. Fern has native integrations with GitHub, Postman, NPM, PyPI, Nuget, and RubyGems.

Appwrite

Series A in 2022
Appwrite is a developer-focused company that provides an open-source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform designed to simplify the development of web, mobile, and native applications. Its platform includes essential features such as a real-time database, a variety of authentication methods, storage and file management, image manipulation, and serverless functions. By offering these tools, Appwrite enables developers to build secure applications more efficiently, allowing them to focus on their unique project requirements without getting bogged down by repetitive tasks. Additionally, Appwrite empowers users to maintain control over their data while using their preferred coding languages and tools, making it a versatile choice for developers at any scale.

Appsmith

Series A in 2021
Appsmith is a developer of an open-source low-code application platform established in mid-2019. The platform enables developers to efficiently build, deploy, and manage custom internal applications, particularly focusing on CRUD functionalities. With over 5 million downloads and usage among more than 1,000 enterprises across over 100 countries, Appsmith aims to simplify the development of internal tools by streamlining operations, automating processes, and facilitating the integration of various applications and data. Additionally, the platform enhances legacy applications by allowing developers to incorporate new features, all while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance.

Appwrite

Seed Round in 2021
Appwrite is a developer-focused company that provides an open-source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform designed to simplify the development of web, mobile, and native applications. Its platform includes essential features such as a real-time database, a variety of authentication methods, storage and file management, image manipulation, and serverless functions. By offering these tools, Appwrite enables developers to build secure applications more efficiently, allowing them to focus on their unique project requirements without getting bogged down by repetitive tasks. Additionally, Appwrite empowers users to maintain control over their data while using their preferred coding languages and tools, making it a versatile choice for developers at any scale.

Salto

Series B in 2021
Salto Labs Inc. specializes in business application configuration, providing a comprehensive dashboard for companies to manage their applications and services. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Salto offers a unique solution that employs an Open Source and an Enterprise SaaS product to facilitate multi-application configuration. At the core of its technology is NaCl (Not Another Configuration Language), which allows for the automatic extraction and declarative representation of configurations from various business applications, including Salesforce, NetSuite, and HubSpot. This innovative approach enables collaborative editing and deployment of configurations, with capabilities for testing, tracking, and rolling back changes as needed. Salto's structured language enhances usability by allowing text searches, re-use of configurations, inline documentation, and easy auditing of changes, ultimately streamlining business operations and reducing errors. The company is backed by notable investors and has expanded its presence with offices in both Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Cypress.io

Series B in 2020
Cypress.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing front-end testing tools for software applications, catering to both developers and QA engineers. Founded in 2014 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Cypress.io provides an automated end-to-end and component testing solution designed for web applications. Its core offering, the open-source Cypress App, integrates various testing tools with a user-friendly graphical interface to facilitate monitoring and debugging of tests. Additionally, the company offers Cypress Cloud, a hosted service that enhances continuous integration (CI) processes by leveraging insights from previous test runs to improve debugging workflows, test suite analytics, and CI orchestration. With over 3,700 customers across 78 countries and 65 industries, Cypress has facilitated the execution of more than 5 billion tests, significantly improving developer efficiency while managing CI costs.

Salto

Series A in 2020
Salto Labs Inc. specializes in business application configuration, providing a comprehensive dashboard for companies to manage their applications and services. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Salto offers a unique solution that employs an Open Source and an Enterprise SaaS product to facilitate multi-application configuration. At the core of its technology is NaCl (Not Another Configuration Language), which allows for the automatic extraction and declarative representation of configurations from various business applications, including Salesforce, NetSuite, and HubSpot. This innovative approach enables collaborative editing and deployment of configurations, with capabilities for testing, tracking, and rolling back changes as needed. Salto's structured language enhances usability by allowing text searches, re-use of configurations, inline documentation, and easy auditing of changes, ultimately streamlining business operations and reducing errors. The company is backed by notable investors and has expanded its presence with offices in both Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Earthly Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Earthly Technologies, Inc. is an open-source platform focused on build automation for the post-container era. Founded in 2020 and based in Redwood City, California, the company offers tools that enable users to execute builds within containers, create Docker images, and generate various output artifacts, including binaries and packages. Its primary product, Earthly, is a CI/CD framework designed for simplicity and repeatability, allowing developers to write builds once and run them anywhere. Additionally, Earthly CI provides a fast and efficient CI/CD platform, while Earthly Satellites serve as remote build runners compatible with any CI system. The platform enhances developer productivity by facilitating parallel execution, managing dependencies, and incorporating automatic build caching for consistent integration.

Nebulous

Seed Round in 2020
Nebulous, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. The company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a marketplace for data storage. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform aimed at developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files to enable fast streaming. As a core contributor and maintainer of the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.

ScyllaDB

Series C in 2019
ScyllaDB is a company specializing in the development of high-performance, scalable column store database software, particularly suited for data-intensive applications. It offers both open-source and enterprise versions of its product, which can be deployed in various environments, alongside ScyllaDB Cloud, a fully-managed Database as a Service available on major cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. The software is designed to support wide-column NoSQL workloads and is fully compatible with popular systems such as Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Founded as Cloudius Systems, ScyllaDB is based in Herzliya, Israel, and aims to deliver exceptional performance and low latency while reducing costs, enabling organizations to leverage modern multi-core servers effectively as their data needs evolve.

Salto

Venture Round in 2019
Salto Labs Inc. specializes in business application configuration, providing a comprehensive dashboard for companies to manage their applications and services. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Salto offers a unique solution that employs an Open Source and an Enterprise SaaS product to facilitate multi-application configuration. At the core of its technology is NaCl (Not Another Configuration Language), which allows for the automatic extraction and declarative representation of configurations from various business applications, including Salesforce, NetSuite, and HubSpot. This innovative approach enables collaborative editing and deployment of configurations, with capabilities for testing, tracking, and rolling back changes as needed. Salto's structured language enhances usability by allowing text searches, re-use of configurations, inline documentation, and easy auditing of changes, ultimately streamlining business operations and reducing errors. The company is backed by notable investors and has expanded its presence with offices in both Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Nebulous

Seed Round in 2019
Nebulous, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. The company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a marketplace for data storage. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform aimed at developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files to enable fast streaming. As a core contributor and maintainer of the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.

Cypress.io

Series A in 2019
Cypress.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing front-end testing tools for software applications, catering to both developers and QA engineers. Founded in 2014 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Cypress.io provides an automated end-to-end and component testing solution designed for web applications. Its core offering, the open-source Cypress App, integrates various testing tools with a user-friendly graphical interface to facilitate monitoring and debugging of tests. Additionally, the company offers Cypress Cloud, a hosted service that enhances continuous integration (CI) processes by leveraging insights from previous test runs to improve debugging workflows, test suite analytics, and CI orchestration. With over 3,700 customers across 78 countries and 65 industries, Cypress has facilitated the execution of more than 5 billion tests, significantly improving developer efficiency while managing CI costs.

Cypress.io

Seed Round in 2018
Cypress.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing front-end testing tools for software applications, catering to both developers and QA engineers. Founded in 2014 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Cypress.io provides an automated end-to-end and component testing solution designed for web applications. Its core offering, the open-source Cypress App, integrates various testing tools with a user-friendly graphical interface to facilitate monitoring and debugging of tests. Additionally, the company offers Cypress Cloud, a hosted service that enhances continuous integration (CI) processes by leveraging insights from previous test runs to improve debugging workflows, test suite analytics, and CI orchestration. With over 3,700 customers across 78 countries and 65 industries, Cypress has facilitated the execution of more than 5 billion tests, significantly improving developer efficiency while managing CI costs.

ScyllaDB

Series C in 2018
ScyllaDB is a company specializing in the development of high-performance, scalable column store database software, particularly suited for data-intensive applications. It offers both open-source and enterprise versions of its product, which can be deployed in various environments, alongside ScyllaDB Cloud, a fully-managed Database as a Service available on major cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. The software is designed to support wide-column NoSQL workloads and is fully compatible with popular systems such as Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Founded as Cloudius Systems, ScyllaDB is based in Herzliya, Israel, and aims to deliver exceptional performance and low latency while reducing costs, enabling organizations to leverage modern multi-core servers effectively as their data needs evolve.

ScyllaDB

Series B in 2017
ScyllaDB is a company specializing in the development of high-performance, scalable column store database software, particularly suited for data-intensive applications. It offers both open-source and enterprise versions of its product, which can be deployed in various environments, alongside ScyllaDB Cloud, a fully-managed Database as a Service available on major cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. The software is designed to support wide-column NoSQL workloads and is fully compatible with popular systems such as Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Founded as Cloudius Systems, ScyllaDB is based in Herzliya, Israel, and aims to deliver exceptional performance and low latency while reducing costs, enabling organizations to leverage modern multi-core servers effectively as their data needs evolve.

Sedona Systems

Series B in 2016
Sedona Systems has developed NetFusion, a multi-layer application platform aimed at optimizing and controlling the optical and IP layers (L0-L3) of service provider networks. This platform enables service providers to achieve optically-aware IP routing and IP-informed optical switching, effectively doubling WAN capacity while enhancing agility, availability, and flexibility. By utilizing centralized open-source software, NetFusion connects seamlessly with equipment from major vendors through SDN controllers or management systems. The platform automates the management of both optical and IP resources, significantly improving operational efficiency and providing full visibility into transport and routing. As a result, Sedona Systems’ solutions can lead to substantial cost savings, potentially reducing core network expenses by up to 80% over five years.

Sedona Systems

Series A in 2014
Sedona Systems has developed NetFusion, a multi-layer application platform aimed at optimizing and controlling the optical and IP layers (L0-L3) of service provider networks. This platform enables service providers to achieve optically-aware IP routing and IP-informed optical switching, effectively doubling WAN capacity while enhancing agility, availability, and flexibility. By utilizing centralized open-source software, NetFusion connects seamlessly with equipment from major vendors through SDN controllers or management systems. The platform automates the management of both optical and IP resources, significantly improving operational efficiency and providing full visibility into transport and routing. As a result, Sedona Systems’ solutions can lead to substantial cost savings, potentially reducing core network expenses by up to 80% over five years.

ScyllaDB

Venture Round in 2013
ScyllaDB is a company specializing in the development of high-performance, scalable column store database software, particularly suited for data-intensive applications. It offers both open-source and enterprise versions of its product, which can be deployed in various environments, alongside ScyllaDB Cloud, a fully-managed Database as a Service available on major cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. The software is designed to support wide-column NoSQL workloads and is fully compatible with popular systems such as Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Founded as Cloudius Systems, ScyllaDB is based in Herzliya, Israel, and aims to deliver exceptional performance and low latency while reducing costs, enabling organizations to leverage modern multi-core servers effectively as their data needs evolve.

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source database management system specializing in online analytical processing (OLAP). It uniquely stores data column-wise, reducing storage needs and enhancing query performance through vectorized processing. This design enables real-time analytics by efficiently handling large datasets, offering enterprises a reliable, scalable solution for data processing.
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