Bessemer Venture Partners X

Bessemer Venture Partners is a prominent venture capital firm that assists entrepreneurs in establishing robust foundations for their companies. With a portfolio that includes notable names such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, and LinkedIn, Bessemer focuses on investing across various sectors, including healthcare, information technology, cybersecurity, and software as a service (SaaS). The firm has a global presence, with investments in the United States, Israel, and India, and manages a substantial asset base of approximately $19 billion. Bessemer's investment approach spans from seed stage to growth, enabling them to support startups and established companies alike as they evolve and scale. The firm is recognized for its long-term commitment to its portfolio companies, having played a crucial role in the successful IPOs of numerous high-profile businesses.

Bennett, Kent

Partner

Sara Byrne

CFO and Partner

D'Onofrio, Mary

Partner

Sameer Dholakia

Partner

Droesch, Mike

Partner

Jeff Epstein

Operating Partner

Goldberg, Talia

Partner

Sandy Grippo

CFO

Tess Hatch

Partner

Hedin M.B.A., Andrew

Partner

Stephen Kraus

Partner

Chini Krishnan

Operating Partner

Puri, Anant Vidur

Partner

Aia Sarycheva

Investor

Smith, Scott

Operating Partner

Rob Stavis

Partner

Mayo Stuntz Jr.

Operating Partner

Janice Teng

Vice President

Katherine Walker

Vice President

David Wehrs

Partner, Platform and Investor Relations

Bryan Wu

Partner

Past deals in Ride Sharing

Optibus

Series D in 2022
Optibus leverages the power of machine learning and optimization algorithms to redefine the way mass-transportation is planned and operated. Optibus’ disruptive technology drive some of the most complex transportation operations worldwide, helping to improve the quality of service, increase efficiencies, save money, and streamline operations.

Upside

Debt Financing in 2022
Upside Travel Company, LLC operates a platform designed for small and mid-sized businesses to manage their travel needs efficiently. Founded in 2015 and based in Washington, District of Columbia, the company specializes in creating customized travel packages that include international travel, round-trip options, and combined air and hotel arrangements. Upside also offers gift cards as part of its services. The company's innovative approach aims to enhance the business travel experience, transforming it from a routine task into a more engaging and effective process. By leveraging technology and dedicated support, Upside enhances travel management for its clients, helping them navigate the complexities of business travel while optimizing costs and convenience.

Upside

Series D in 2022
Upside Travel Company, LLC operates a platform designed for small and mid-sized businesses to manage their travel needs efficiently. Founded in 2015 and based in Washington, District of Columbia, the company specializes in creating customized travel packages that include international travel, round-trip options, and combined air and hotel arrangements. Upside also offers gift cards as part of its services. The company's innovative approach aims to enhance the business travel experience, transforming it from a routine task into a more engaging and effective process. By leveraging technology and dedicated support, Upside enhances travel management for its clients, helping them navigate the complexities of business travel while optimizing costs and convenience.

House Rx

Series A in 2022
House Rx is a health technology platform focused on improving affordability and patient access to specialty medications.

Phantom Auto

Series B in 2022
Phantom Auto Inc. is a software company specializing in the remote operation of autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company develops a platform that allows remote drivers to operate various vehicles, including passenger cars, forklifts, trucks, and delivery robots, from significant distances. This technology is particularly useful in challenging environments such as construction sites, adverse weather conditions, and roadside emergencies. By enabling personnel to monitor and control vehicles from remote locations, Phantom Auto enhances safety, improves labor accessibility, and boosts productivity for its clients in logistics and other sectors.

Raft

Series A in 2021
Raft is a logistics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to automate the freight process, providing enhanced control and visibility for operators. By streamlining various tasks such as managing accounts payable invoices, customs documentation, and shipping workflows, Raft significantly reduces the need for manual input and reconciliation. This automation allows freight forwarders and customs brokers to operate more efficiently, saving valuable time and improving accuracy and compliance in their operations. The platform's real-time processing capabilities enable operators to handle shipments promptly and with greater certainty, ultimately enhancing customer service.

Shippo

Series E in 2021
Shippo is a shipping platform that assists e-commerce businesses in managing their shipping operations effectively. The company provides a multi-carrier shipping API and a web application that connects businesses with more than 40 global carriers, including USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL. Shippo's platform enables users to create shipping labels, track packages, manage billing and invoicing, and access discounted shipping rates. Additionally, it offers tools for obtaining real-time shipping rates, automating international paperwork, and facilitating returns, allowing businesses to identify delivery options that meet their needs.

Recover Together

Series C in 2021
Groups Recover Together was founded to make treatment for opioid addiction respectful, accessible, and affordable. We empower our members to regain control of their lives through a proven, evidence-based model of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with buprenorphine and weekly group therapy.

Optibus

Series C in 2021
Optibus leverages the power of machine learning and optimization algorithms to redefine the way mass-transportation is planned and operated. Optibus’ disruptive technology drive some of the most complex transportation operations worldwide, helping to improve the quality of service, increase efficiencies, save money, and streamline operations.

Shippo

Series D in 2021
Shippo is a shipping platform that assists e-commerce businesses in managing their shipping operations effectively. The company provides a multi-carrier shipping API and a web application that connects businesses with more than 40 global carriers, including USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL. Shippo's platform enables users to create shipping labels, track packages, manage billing and invoicing, and access discounted shipping rates. Additionally, it offers tools for obtaining real-time shipping rates, automating international paperwork, and facilitating returns, allowing businesses to identify delivery options that meet their needs.

Upside

Series C in 2020
Upside Travel Company, LLC operates a platform designed for small and mid-sized businesses to manage their travel needs efficiently. Founded in 2015 and based in Washington, District of Columbia, the company specializes in creating customized travel packages that include international travel, round-trip options, and combined air and hotel arrangements. Upside also offers gift cards as part of its services. The company's innovative approach aims to enhance the business travel experience, transforming it from a routine task into a more engaging and effective process. By leveraging technology and dedicated support, Upside enhances travel management for its clients, helping them navigate the complexities of business travel while optimizing costs and convenience.

Otonomo

Series C in 2020
Otonomo fuels a data ecosystem of OEMs, fleets, and more than 100 service providers. Our platform securely ingests more than 4 billion data points per day globally from over 40 million vehicles licensed on the platform, then reshapes and enriches it, to accelerate time to market for new services that improve the in-and-around the car experience. Privacy by design and neutrality are at the core of our platform, which enables GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy-regulation-compliant solutions using both personal and aggregate data. Use cases include emergency services, mapping, EV management, subscription-based services, parking, predictive maintenance, insurance, media, in-vehicle services, traffic management, and smart city solutions.

Shippo

Series C in 2020
Shippo is a shipping platform that assists e-commerce businesses in managing their shipping operations effectively. The company provides a multi-carrier shipping API and a web application that connects businesses with more than 40 global carriers, including USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL. Shippo's platform enables users to create shipping labels, track packages, manage billing and invoicing, and access discounted shipping rates. Additionally, it offers tools for obtaining real-time shipping rates, automating international paperwork, and facilitating returns, allowing businesses to identify delivery options that meet their needs.

Culdesac

Venture Round in 2019
Culdesac Inc. develops and manages post-car real estate services in the United States. It offers ridesharing, bikes and scooters, and same-day grocery delivery services. Culdesac Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Beyond

Series A in 2019
Beyond is the #1 Revenue Management Platform for short-term rental managers and owners to get, grow, and keep revenue. Our suite of tools has helped our partners see as much as a 40% increase in booking revenue. To date, we’ve supported over 340,000 properties in more than 7,500 cities worldwide. We pioneered pricing for the short-term rental market, and that was just the beginning. Since our founding in 2013, we’ve developed a wide range of tools like Signal, Relay, Insights, Guidance, and Projections to give short-term rental managers and owners what they need to succeed. Come learn more at www.beyondpricing.com and see what we can do for your business.

Phantom Auto

Series A in 2019
Phantom Auto Inc. is a software company specializing in the remote operation of autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company develops a platform that allows remote drivers to operate various vehicles, including passenger cars, forklifts, trucks, and delivery robots, from significant distances. This technology is particularly useful in challenging environments such as construction sites, adverse weather conditions, and roadside emergencies. By enabling personnel to monitor and control vehicles from remote locations, Phantom Auto enhances safety, improves labor accessibility, and boosts productivity for its clients in logistics and other sectors.

Highrise

Seed Round in 2018
Highrise is a creative mobile community where people create avatars, express themselves, and make friends. Its platform includes built-in user-generated avatars that let its users engage in real-time virtual chats, read reviews, surf across the latest news feed and keep in touch with their friends to customize and self-designed games, enabling users to make new friends, host real-time games and create fun contents for publicizing. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Highrise

Seed Round in 2018
Highrise is a creative mobile community where people create avatars, express themselves, and make friends. Its platform includes built-in user-generated avatars that let its users engage in real-time virtual chats, read reviews, surf across the latest news feed and keep in touch with their friends to customize and self-designed games, enabling users to make new friends, host real-time games and create fun contents for publicizing. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rocketrip

Series C in 2018
Rocketrip, Inc. is a travel management platform that incentivizes employees to make cost-effective travel decisions for business purposes. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the platform provides real-time insights into travel expenses, helping employees understand reasonable spending limits. By establishing a custom-calibrated Price to Beat, Rocketrip motivates employees to select lower-cost options for flights, car rentals, and hotel accommodations, thereby enabling them to earn rewards for saving the company money. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing online booking processes, ensuring minimal disruption. Rocketrip is utilized by notable enterprises such as iHeartMedia, Feld Entertainment, and Twitter, and operates as a subsidiary of Mondee Holdings Inc.

TravelTriangle

Series C in 2018
TravelTriangle.com is an exciting new way of buying trips online in India (currently). They promote local travel agents and get you best trips from them. They have created a marketplace where travelers can interact with local travel agents. This also empowers local travel agents to come online and compete with big fishes. Travelers on the other hand get customized trips at cheap prices and also with a taste of local salt. The dreams of a heavenly vacation are often overshadowed by the nightmares of one that turns out to be total disaster due to technical hitches. A holiday today can be more taxing than your workplace if not planned right. The misfortunes like travel agent's craftiness, the discontent over the abode, all travel and no rest can actually be done without! It's a vacation after all! Bringing to the same platform an assortment of agents with the best they have to offer, traveltriangle.com gives the traveller a chance to compare and choose the one most suited to him. Once you have submitted your trip request, you're poured with options; competing quotes from travel agents on your desired holiday plan. Hence, you are saved the trouble of calling up and negotiating with travel agents individually. Also, the reasonable quotes of travel agents add to your delight! exclaims Sanchit, flaunting of the winning cards up his sleeve. While traveltriangle.com is soon going to expedite newer spaces, it is continually striving to improve its present services to give its visitors worldwide a splendid vacation! So, the next time you have so much as a thought of a holiday; let traveltriangle.com take care of the rest and you would be glad you did.

Shippo

Series B in 2017
Shippo is a shipping platform that assists e-commerce businesses in managing their shipping operations effectively. The company provides a multi-carrier shipping API and a web application that connects businesses with more than 40 global carriers, including USPS, UPS, FedEx, and DHL. Shippo's platform enables users to create shipping labels, track packages, manage billing and invoicing, and access discounted shipping rates. Additionally, it offers tools for obtaining real-time shipping rates, automating international paperwork, and facilitating returns, allowing businesses to identify delivery options that meet their needs.

Recover Together

Venture Round in 2017
Groups Recover Together was founded to make treatment for opioid addiction respectful, accessible, and affordable. We empower our members to regain control of their lives through a proven, evidence-based model of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with buprenorphine and weekly group therapy.

Raise

Series C in 2017
Raise is a digital payment platform that allows consumers to purchase discounted gift cards and earn savings on transactions across various retailers. The platform allows users to buy and sell gift cards, facilitating a marketplace where individuals can exchange unwanted gift cards for cash or other cards. Raise also offers a rewards program that enables customers to earn points on purchases, which can be redeemed for future savings. By partnering with numerous brands, Raise enhances consumer choice and accessibility to various products and services while promoting cost-effective shopping solutions.

Rabbit

Series B in 2017
Rabbit is the way to watch anything online with anyone. Discover, share and watch content anywhere with your friends. React and respond in-the-moment or when you have time. Even if you're in a different city, another country, or on the other side of the world, Rabbit allows you to keep in touch while watching your favorite shows together. Rabbit is a Series B start-up that’s backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Goodwater Capital and others.

Swiggy

Series E in 2017
Swiggy is an on-demand food delivery platform that brings food from neighborhood restaurants directly to customers' doors. The company's food delivery platform lists local restaurants and menu lists on an app for users to order from and track the delivery of its delivery executives, enabling users to order food with speed and convenience. Its service is used to pick up and drop off a diverse array of items, including laundry and document or parcel deliveries to business clients and retail customers.

Otonomo

Series B in 2017
Otonomo fuels a data ecosystem of OEMs, fleets, and more than 100 service providers. Our platform securely ingests more than 4 billion data points per day globally from over 40 million vehicles licensed on the platform, then reshapes and enriches it, to accelerate time to market for new services that improve the in-and-around the car experience. Privacy by design and neutrality are at the core of our platform, which enables GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy-regulation-compliant solutions using both personal and aggregate data. Use cases include emergency services, mapping, EV management, subscription-based services, parking, predictive maintenance, insurance, media, in-vehicle services, traffic management, and smart city solutions.

TravelTriangle

Series B in 2017
TravelTriangle.com is an exciting new way of buying trips online in India (currently). They promote local travel agents and get you best trips from them. They have created a marketplace where travelers can interact with local travel agents. This also empowers local travel agents to come online and compete with big fishes. Travelers on the other hand get customized trips at cheap prices and also with a taste of local salt. The dreams of a heavenly vacation are often overshadowed by the nightmares of one that turns out to be total disaster due to technical hitches. A holiday today can be more taxing than your workplace if not planned right. The misfortunes like travel agent's craftiness, the discontent over the abode, all travel and no rest can actually be done without! It's a vacation after all! Bringing to the same platform an assortment of agents with the best they have to offer, traveltriangle.com gives the traveller a chance to compare and choose the one most suited to him. Once you have submitted your trip request, you're poured with options; competing quotes from travel agents on your desired holiday plan. Hence, you are saved the trouble of calling up and negotiating with travel agents individually. Also, the reasonable quotes of travel agents add to your delight! exclaims Sanchit, flaunting of the winning cards up his sleeve. While traveltriangle.com is soon going to expedite newer spaces, it is continually striving to improve its present services to give its visitors worldwide a splendid vacation! So, the next time you have so much as a thought of a holiday; let traveltriangle.com take care of the rest and you would be glad you did.

Otonomo

Series A in 2016
Otonomo fuels a data ecosystem of OEMs, fleets, and more than 100 service providers. Our platform securely ingests more than 4 billion data points per day globally from over 40 million vehicles licensed on the platform, then reshapes and enriches it, to accelerate time to market for new services that improve the in-and-around the car experience. Privacy by design and neutrality are at the core of our platform, which enables GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy-regulation-compliant solutions using both personal and aggregate data. Use cases include emergency services, mapping, EV management, subscription-based services, parking, predictive maintenance, insurance, media, in-vehicle services, traffic management, and smart city solutions.

Swiggy

Series D in 2016
Swiggy is an on-demand food delivery platform that brings food from neighborhood restaurants directly to customers' doors. The company's food delivery platform lists local restaurants and menu lists on an app for users to order from and track the delivery of its delivery executives, enabling users to order food with speed and convenience. Its service is used to pick up and drop off a diverse array of items, including laundry and document or parcel deliveries to business clients and retail customers.

Rocketrip

Series B in 2016
Rocketrip, Inc. is a travel management platform that incentivizes employees to make cost-effective travel decisions for business purposes. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the platform provides real-time insights into travel expenses, helping employees understand reasonable spending limits. By establishing a custom-calibrated Price to Beat, Rocketrip motivates employees to select lower-cost options for flights, car rentals, and hotel accommodations, thereby enabling them to earn rewards for saving the company money. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing online booking processes, ensuring minimal disruption. Rocketrip is utilized by notable enterprises such as iHeartMedia, Feld Entertainment, and Twitter, and operates as a subsidiary of Mondee Holdings Inc.

Otonomo

Series A in 2015
Otonomo fuels a data ecosystem of OEMs, fleets, and more than 100 service providers. Our platform securely ingests more than 4 billion data points per day globally from over 40 million vehicles licensed on the platform, then reshapes and enriches it, to accelerate time to market for new services that improve the in-and-around the car experience. Privacy by design and neutrality are at the core of our platform, which enables GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy-regulation-compliant solutions using both personal and aggregate data. Use cases include emergency services, mapping, EV management, subscription-based services, parking, predictive maintenance, insurance, media, in-vehicle services, traffic management, and smart city solutions.

Rabbit

Series A in 2015
Rabbit is the way to watch anything online with anyone. Discover, share and watch content anywhere with your friends. React and respond in-the-moment or when you have time. Even if you're in a different city, another country, or on the other side of the world, Rabbit allows you to keep in touch while watching your favorite shows together. Rabbit is a Series B start-up that’s backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Goodwater Capital and others.

TravelTriangle

Series B in 2015
TravelTriangle.com is an exciting new way of buying trips online in India (currently). They promote local travel agents and get you best trips from them. They have created a marketplace where travelers can interact with local travel agents. This also empowers local travel agents to come online and compete with big fishes. Travelers on the other hand get customized trips at cheap prices and also with a taste of local salt. The dreams of a heavenly vacation are often overshadowed by the nightmares of one that turns out to be total disaster due to technical hitches. A holiday today can be more taxing than your workplace if not planned right. The misfortunes like travel agent's craftiness, the discontent over the abode, all travel and no rest can actually be done without! It's a vacation after all! Bringing to the same platform an assortment of agents with the best they have to offer, traveltriangle.com gives the traveller a chance to compare and choose the one most suited to him. Once you have submitted your trip request, you're poured with options; competing quotes from travel agents on your desired holiday plan. Hence, you are saved the trouble of calling up and negotiating with travel agents individually. Also, the reasonable quotes of travel agents add to your delight! exclaims Sanchit, flaunting of the winning cards up his sleeve. While traveltriangle.com is soon going to expedite newer spaces, it is continually striving to improve its present services to give its visitors worldwide a splendid vacation! So, the next time you have so much as a thought of a holiday; let traveltriangle.com take care of the rest and you would be glad you did.

STRATIM Systems

Series B in 2015
STRATIM builds enterprise logistics platform for transportation companies to modernize fleet operations, unify systems, ensure high vehicle up-time, and deliver better mobility experiences. The company aims to enable the transportation industry to thrive in this complexity by providing powerful yet easy-to-use technology that simplifies the management of fleets at scale. STRATIM has three product lines: The STRATIM Platform unifies and oversees your entire logistical operation through a suite of software tools; The STRATIM Exchange connects you to vendors that enable real time fulfillment of your requests on the ground; and The STRATIM Marketplace enables fleet owners and their vendors to transact with each other. The company was incorporated in the year 2014 as Zirx and later on re-branded as STRATIM in 2017.

GroupAhead

Seed Round in 2015
GroupAhead, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing mobile applications tailored for real-life groups, facilitating enhanced communication and connection among members. Its platform allows organizations, including clubs, professional associations, faith-based groups, schools, and non-profits, to create dedicated mobile apps. These apps feature functionalities such as posting updates, sharing photos, joining discussions, browsing member lists, and sending automatic push notifications about new posts and events. By providing a focused environment for member interaction, GroupAhead aims to increase engagement and attendance at events while simplifying organizational management. Established in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, GroupAhead addresses the needs of various member-based organizations through its innovative approach to communication.

Raise

Series B in 2015
Raise is a digital payment platform that allows consumers to purchase discounted gift cards and earn savings on transactions across various retailers. The platform allows users to buy and sell gift cards, facilitating a marketplace where individuals can exchange unwanted gift cards for cash or other cards. Raise also offers a rewards program that enables customers to earn points on purchases, which can be redeemed for future savings. By partnering with numerous brands, Raise enhances consumer choice and accessibility to various products and services while promoting cost-effective shopping solutions.

TaxiForSure

Series C in 2014
TaxiForSure.com is an aggregator of car rentals and taxis in India. They work with various taxi operators and enable them with technology to ensure that customers get an easily accessible, safe, reliable taxi ride ‘for sure’.

Life360

Series C in 2014
Life360 is a platform for today’s busy families, bringing them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate with, and protect the people they care about most. Their mobile app provides millions of families in over 140 countries with services such as private location sharing, location history, drive details, crash detection, roadside assistance and help alerts through our free and paid membership subscription. Life360 has raised +$100M from Bessemer Venture Partners, DCM, Fontinalis Partners, BMW iVentures, Allstate, Bullpen Capital, Founders Fund (FF Angel), Launch Capital, Kapor Capital, and 500 startups. Founded in 2008, Life360 is based in San Francisco with offices in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Ft. Lauderdale.

TaxiForSure

Series B in 2014
TaxiForSure.com is an aggregator of car rentals and taxis in India. They work with various taxi operators and enable them with technology to ensure that customers get an easily accessible, safe, reliable taxi ride ‘for sure’.

Raise

Series A in 2013
Raise is a digital payment platform that allows consumers to purchase discounted gift cards and earn savings on transactions across various retailers. The platform allows users to buy and sell gift cards, facilitating a marketplace where individuals can exchange unwanted gift cards for cash or other cards. Raise also offers a rewards program that enables customers to earn points on purchases, which can be redeemed for future savings. By partnering with numerous brands, Raise enhances consumer choice and accessibility to various products and services while promoting cost-effective shopping solutions.

Life360

Series B in 2013
Life360 is a platform for today’s busy families, bringing them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate with, and protect the people they care about most. Their mobile app provides millions of families in over 140 countries with services such as private location sharing, location history, drive details, crash detection, roadside assistance and help alerts through our free and paid membership subscription. Life360 has raised +$100M from Bessemer Venture Partners, DCM, Fontinalis Partners, BMW iVentures, Allstate, Bullpen Capital, Founders Fund (FF Angel), Launch Capital, Kapor Capital, and 500 startups. Founded in 2008, Life360 is based in San Francisco with offices in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Ft. Lauderdale.

WireOver

Seed Round in 2012
WireOver is a desktop application that leverages peer-to-peer technology for sending files privately. It's free and unlimited, solving an unmet need for sending large files easily. Pro accounts get incredibly strong security, with end-to-end encryption.

Life360

Series A in 2011
Life360 is a platform for today’s busy families, bringing them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate with, and protect the people they care about most. Their mobile app provides millions of families in over 140 countries with services such as private location sharing, location history, drive details, crash detection, roadside assistance and help alerts through our free and paid membership subscription. Life360 has raised +$100M from Bessemer Venture Partners, DCM, Fontinalis Partners, BMW iVentures, Allstate, Bullpen Capital, Founders Fund (FF Angel), Launch Capital, Kapor Capital, and 500 startups. Founded in 2008, Life360 is based in San Francisco with offices in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Ft. Lauderdale.

Revver

Venture Round in 2006
The first user generated video site to offer revenue share, Revver is a video sharing site. Revver was founded in 2004 before user generated video had even begun to take off. For months into its infancy Revver looked to be a viable alternative if not legitimate challenger to YouTube. Its 50/50 revenue share model landed some high profile content like Ask a Ninja, LonelyGirl15 and the Diet Coke and Mentos guys. Users were immediately enticed by the chance not only to be a web celebrity but to make some cash while they were at it. According to Compete.com, Revver page views are still growing, however, they hit appr. 1 million monthly while YouTube achieves close to 250 million. Competitors in the user generated video area include [Veoh](http://crunchbase.com/organization/veoh), [YouTube](http://crunchbase.com/organization/youtube), Sony owned [Crackle](http://crunchbase.com/organization/crackle), [DailyMotion](http://crunchbase.com/organization/dailymotion), [Metacafe](http://crunchbase.com/organization/metacafe), [iFilm](http://crunchbase.com/organization/ifilm) and others. Ian Clarke, original Revver Co-founder, now runs social news site [Thoof](http://crunchbase.com/organization/thoof).

Revver

Series B in 2006
The first user generated video site to offer revenue share, Revver is a video sharing site. Revver was founded in 2004 before user generated video had even begun to take off. For months into its infancy Revver looked to be a viable alternative if not legitimate challenger to YouTube. Its 50/50 revenue share model landed some high profile content like Ask a Ninja, LonelyGirl15 and the Diet Coke and Mentos guys. Users were immediately enticed by the chance not only to be a web celebrity but to make some cash while they were at it. According to Compete.com, Revver page views are still growing, however, they hit appr. 1 million monthly while YouTube achieves close to 250 million. Competitors in the user generated video area include [Veoh](http://crunchbase.com/organization/veoh), [YouTube](http://crunchbase.com/organization/youtube), Sony owned [Crackle](http://crunchbase.com/organization/crackle), [DailyMotion](http://crunchbase.com/organization/dailymotion), [Metacafe](http://crunchbase.com/organization/metacafe), [iFilm](http://crunchbase.com/organization/ifilm) and others. Ian Clarke, original Revver Co-founder, now runs social news site [Thoof](http://crunchbase.com/organization/thoof).

Revver

Series A in 2005
The first user generated video site to offer revenue share, Revver is a video sharing site. Revver was founded in 2004 before user generated video had even begun to take off. For months into its infancy Revver looked to be a viable alternative if not legitimate challenger to YouTube. Its 50/50 revenue share model landed some high profile content like Ask a Ninja, LonelyGirl15 and the Diet Coke and Mentos guys. Users were immediately enticed by the chance not only to be a web celebrity but to make some cash while they were at it. According to Compete.com, Revver page views are still growing, however, they hit appr. 1 million monthly while YouTube achieves close to 250 million. Competitors in the user generated video area include [Veoh](http://crunchbase.com/organization/veoh), [YouTube](http://crunchbase.com/organization/youtube), Sony owned [Crackle](http://crunchbase.com/organization/crackle), [DailyMotion](http://crunchbase.com/organization/dailymotion), [Metacafe](http://crunchbase.com/organization/metacafe), [iFilm](http://crunchbase.com/organization/ifilm) and others. Ian Clarke, original Revver Co-founder, now runs social news site [Thoof](http://crunchbase.com/organization/thoof).

BestOffer

Series B in 2000
BestOffer is engaged in the online buying and selling of used cars. It also provides information, online person-to-person auctions, pricing, inspections, test drives, financing, insurance, warranty, and escrow services. BestOffer was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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