Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners is a $4 billion venture capital firm founded in 1911 and based in California, specializing in investments across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare sectors globally, from seed stage to growth. The firm supports founders by providing guidance and resources, starting with seed and Series A investments and maintaining involvement throughout the development of their companies. Bessemer has a diverse portfolio, having funded early-stage companies such as Pinterest, Blue Apron, Skype, and Twitch, and has played a role in the successful initial public offerings of 117 companies, including Twilio, Yelp, and LinkedIn. The firm also operates several specialized funds targeting various sectors, including information technology, software, and digital health, with a presence in key markets such as India and Israel.

Rob Arditi

Partner

Kent Bennett

Partner

Mark S. Bercow

Operating Partner

Charles Birnbaum

Partner

Robert H. Buescher

Administrative Partner

Sara Byrne

Director, GP Accounting

Chris Chesney

Associate

J. Edmund Colloton

Managing Partner and COO

Ed Colloton

Partner

David Cowan

Partner

Mary D'Onofrio

Partner

Byron Deeter

Partner

Sameer Dholakia

Partner

Mike Droesch

Partner

David Erickson

Operating Partner

Alex Ferrara

Partner

Adam Fisher

Partner

Christopher Gabrieli

Partner

Talia Goldberg

Partner

Bob Goodman

Partner

Robert P. Goodman

Partner

Sandy Grippo

Chief Financial Officer and Partner

Vishal Gupta

Partner

Felda Hardymon

Partner

Tess Hatch

Partner

Andrew Hedin

Partner

Amit Karp

Partner

Stephen Kraus

Partner

Ethan Kurzweil

Partner

Waikit Lau

Associate

Jeremy Levine

Partner

Emily Lu

Venture Capitalist

Bennett Mathews

Senior Associate

Robert O'Neil

Partner

Anant Vidur Puri

Partner

Dan Ramirez

Associate

Elliott Robinson

Partner & Co-Founder of the Growth Investment Practice

Rob Stavis

Partner

Ariel Sterman

vice_president

Nancy Straface

Vice president of investment accounting

Mayo Stuntz

Operating Partner

Connor Watumull

Senior Associate

David Wehrs

Partner

Augie Wilkinson

Director, Portfolio Monitoring and Analysis

Past deals in Data Visualization

Imply

Series D in 2022
Imply Data, Inc. specializes in developing exploratory analytic software solutions, centered around its flagship Imply analytics platform, which leverages Apache Druid. This open-source analytics data store enables users to perform interactive and exploratory analysis on both real-time and historical data, making it particularly effective for event-driven and streaming data scenarios. Imply also offers additional tools such as Pivot, a visual data explorer, Plywood, a JavaScript framework for optimized database queries, and PlyQL, a SQL-like query language tailored for Druid. The company's solutions cater to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media, hospitality, retail, gaming, and technology. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, Imply aims to transform how organizations analyze and utilize their data.

Firebolt

Series C in 2022
Firebolt Analytics Inc. is a startup that specializes in developing a cloud data warehousing platform designed for fast and efficient analytics. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Firebolt's platform enables users to streamline analytics and gain insights through continuous data ingestion and comprehensive database management system capabilities. It supports ANSI SQL, handles semi-structured data, and ensures end-to-end security. The software-as-a-service solution leverages an efficient SQL query engine that separates storage and compute resources, allowing businesses to scale their analytics infrastructure without compromising performance. Firebolt's data warehouses can manage multi-terabyte and petabyte-scale data, facilitating interactive, high-performance analytics that empower analysts and improve the return on investment in data collection.

Visor

Seed Round in 2021
Visor is a company that specializes in providing visual planning tools designed to enhance the efficiency of product and engineering teams. Founded in 2016 by Michael Yaroshefsky, Visor offers a spreadsheet-like platform that integrates bidirectionally with Jira, enabling users to customize views for various stakeholders. This tool allows both large and small businesses to effectively plan and track their projects, providing a comprehensive overview of their workflows. Headquartered in New York, Visor aims to streamline project management and improve collaboration within teams.

Firebolt

Series B in 2021
Firebolt Analytics Inc. is a startup that specializes in developing a cloud data warehousing platform designed for fast and efficient analytics. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Firebolt's platform enables users to streamline analytics and gain insights through continuous data ingestion and comprehensive database management system capabilities. It supports ANSI SQL, handles semi-structured data, and ensures end-to-end security. The software-as-a-service solution leverages an efficient SQL query engine that separates storage and compute resources, allowing businesses to scale their analytics infrastructure without compromising performance. Firebolt's data warehouses can manage multi-terabyte and petabyte-scale data, facilitating interactive, high-performance analytics that empower analysts and improve the return on investment in data collection.

Imply

Series C in 2021
Imply Data, Inc. specializes in developing exploratory analytic software solutions, centered around its flagship Imply analytics platform, which leverages Apache Druid. This open-source analytics data store enables users to perform interactive and exploratory analysis on both real-time and historical data, making it particularly effective for event-driven and streaming data scenarios. Imply also offers additional tools such as Pivot, a visual data explorer, Plywood, a JavaScript framework for optimized database queries, and PlyQL, a SQL-like query language tailored for Druid. The company's solutions cater to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, media, hospitality, retail, gaming, and technology. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, Imply aims to transform how organizations analyze and utilize their data.

Firebolt

Series A in 2020
Firebolt Analytics Inc. is a startup that specializes in developing a cloud data warehousing platform designed for fast and efficient analytics. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Firebolt's platform enables users to streamline analytics and gain insights through continuous data ingestion and comprehensive database management system capabilities. It supports ANSI SQL, handles semi-structured data, and ensures end-to-end security. The software-as-a-service solution leverages an efficient SQL query engine that separates storage and compute resources, allowing businesses to scale their analytics infrastructure without compromising performance. Firebolt's data warehouses can manage multi-terabyte and petabyte-scale data, facilitating interactive, high-performance analytics that empower analysts and improve the return on investment in data collection.

Databand

Series A in 2020
Databand is a software company that specializes in providing a development framework and work management platform tailored for machine learning (ML) projects. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in the United States, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, Databand's platform addresses the unique challenges of ML development by offering a system that streamlines the integration, production, and testing of ML pipelines. It enhances visibility for data scientists and engineers, enabling them to build solutions quickly, iterate effectively, and productize improvements. The platform serves as a central monitoring hub, allowing teams to collaborate and manage pipeline run information, metadata, and project metrics in a cohesive manner. This specialized approach helps organizations, ranging from startups to large enterprises, overcome traditional limitations in ML development, ensuring robust data health standards while scaling their infrastructure.

Firebolt

Venture Round in 2020
Firebolt Analytics Inc. is a startup that specializes in developing a cloud data warehousing platform designed for fast and efficient analytics. Founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, Firebolt's platform enables users to streamline analytics and gain insights through continuous data ingestion and comprehensive database management system capabilities. It supports ANSI SQL, handles semi-structured data, and ensures end-to-end security. The software-as-a-service solution leverages an efficient SQL query engine that separates storage and compute resources, allowing businesses to scale their analytics infrastructure without compromising performance. Firebolt's data warehouses can manage multi-terabyte and petabyte-scale data, facilitating interactive, high-performance analytics that empower analysts and improve the return on investment in data collection.

Sisense

Series F in 2020
Sisense Inc. specializes in developing advanced business intelligence and data analytics software solutions. Its flagship product, Sisense, allows users to manage, analyze, and visualize complex data from diverse sources through interactive dashboards and data visualizations. The company enhances analytic adoption by offering Sisense Fusion, an AI-driven analytics cloud platform that integrates analytics into both customer-facing applications and employee workflows. Serving a broad range of industries, including retail, healthcare, and manufacturing, Sisense caters to businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. With a commitment to customer success, Sisense has been recognized as a leader in the business intelligence sector and has established strategic partnerships, such as with Narrative Science. Founded in 2005, Sisense is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in London and Sydney.

Sisense

Series E in 2018
Sisense Inc. specializes in developing advanced business intelligence and data analytics software solutions. Its flagship product, Sisense, allows users to manage, analyze, and visualize complex data from diverse sources through interactive dashboards and data visualizations. The company enhances analytic adoption by offering Sisense Fusion, an AI-driven analytics cloud platform that integrates analytics into both customer-facing applications and employee workflows. Serving a broad range of industries, including retail, healthcare, and manufacturing, Sisense caters to businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. With a commitment to customer success, Sisense has been recognized as a leader in the business intelligence sector and has established strategic partnerships, such as with Narrative Science. Founded in 2005, Sisense is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in London and Sydney.

Sisense

Series D in 2016
Sisense Inc. specializes in developing advanced business intelligence and data analytics software solutions. Its flagship product, Sisense, allows users to manage, analyze, and visualize complex data from diverse sources through interactive dashboards and data visualizations. The company enhances analytic adoption by offering Sisense Fusion, an AI-driven analytics cloud platform that integrates analytics into both customer-facing applications and employee workflows. Serving a broad range of industries, including retail, healthcare, and manufacturing, Sisense caters to businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises. With a commitment to customer success, Sisense has been recognized as a leader in the business intelligence sector and has established strategic partnerships, such as with Narrative Science. Founded in 2005, Sisense is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with additional offices in London and Sydney.

Baremetrics

Seed Round in 2015
Baremetrics is a cloud-based analytics platform that provides seamless, one-click integration with Stripe accounts to deliver comprehensive SaaS analytics. By eliminating the complexities of traditional analytics setups, it allows businesses to access vital metrics, forecasts, and insights without the need for extensive configuration or data imports. The platform offers tools to generate actionable reports and insights, enabling teams to make informed, data-driven decisions efficiently. With its focus on automatic data analysis and reporting, Baremetrics aims to simplify the process of monitoring and understanding business performance for organizations utilizing various productivity tools.

BrightBytes

Series C in 2015
BrightBytes provides the first SaaS-based data analytics platform that measures and links technology use in education to learning outcomes. It leverages data to understand and improve learning with technology. Its team is made up of Data Scientists, Educational Researchers, Developers, and Data Visualization Experts. The platform also enables educators to cleanse, integrate, and bi-directionally to manage complex data from multiple systems. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

Baremetrics

Seed Round in 2014
Baremetrics is a cloud-based analytics platform that provides seamless, one-click integration with Stripe accounts to deliver comprehensive SaaS analytics. By eliminating the complexities of traditional analytics setups, it allows businesses to access vital metrics, forecasts, and insights without the need for extensive configuration or data imports. The platform offers tools to generate actionable reports and insights, enabling teams to make informed, data-driven decisions efficiently. With its focus on automatic data analysis and reporting, Baremetrics aims to simplify the process of monitoring and understanding business performance for organizations utilizing various productivity tools.

BrightBytes

Series B in 2014
BrightBytes provides the first SaaS-based data analytics platform that measures and links technology use in education to learning outcomes. It leverages data to understand and improve learning with technology. Its team is made up of Data Scientists, Educational Researchers, Developers, and Data Visualization Experts. The platform also enables educators to cleanse, integrate, and bi-directionally to manage complex data from multiple systems. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

Discoverly

Seed Round in 2013
Discoverly is a tool to navigate and employ your social data. It's about time we put social to work.

Hadapt

Series A in 2011
Hadapt is a developer of an adaptive analytical platform designed to facilitate complex analytics on both structured and unstructured data. This platform operates in private and public cloud environments, providing a cloud-optimized system for data analysis. Hadapt's Adaptive Query Execution solution enhances performance by dynamically load balancing queries in virtualized settings, enabling analytical workloads to be efficiently distributed between relational database engines and Hadoop, an open-source parallel data processing framework. Additionally, the platform supports SQL, making it versatile for various analytical tasks.

Vertica

Series B in 2007
Vertica Systems, Inc. specializes in developing advanced data management solutions, particularly through its flagship product, the Vertica Analytic Database. This platform is designed for high-performance data analysis at scale, enabling users to conduct near-real-time and ad hoc queries across large datasets. Vertica's offerings include a cloud-based version of its analytic database and a hardware/software appliance, catering to diverse applications such as data warehousing, fraud detection, and business intelligence. The company also supports early-stage companies through its Vertica Startup Accelerator program, which provides access to its analytics platform and resources to help entrepreneurs develop innovative solutions for big data challenges. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, Vertica has established strategic partnerships with various technology firms to enhance its ecosystem and drive innovation in data analytics.

Vertica

Series A in 2006
Vertica Systems, Inc. specializes in developing advanced data management solutions, particularly through its flagship product, the Vertica Analytic Database. This platform is designed for high-performance data analysis at scale, enabling users to conduct near-real-time and ad hoc queries across large datasets. Vertica's offerings include a cloud-based version of its analytic database and a hardware/software appliance, catering to diverse applications such as data warehousing, fraud detection, and business intelligence. The company also supports early-stage companies through its Vertica Startup Accelerator program, which provides access to its analytics platform and resources to help entrepreneurs develop innovative solutions for big data challenges. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, Vertica has established strategic partnerships with various technology firms to enhance its ecosystem and drive innovation in data analytics.

Vertica

Venture Round in 2005
Vertica Systems, Inc. specializes in developing advanced data management solutions, particularly through its flagship product, the Vertica Analytic Database. This platform is designed for high-performance data analysis at scale, enabling users to conduct near-real-time and ad hoc queries across large datasets. Vertica's offerings include a cloud-based version of its analytic database and a hardware/software appliance, catering to diverse applications such as data warehousing, fraud detection, and business intelligence. The company also supports early-stage companies through its Vertica Startup Accelerator program, which provides access to its analytics platform and resources to help entrepreneurs develop innovative solutions for big data challenges. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, Vertica has established strategic partnerships with various technology firms to enhance its ecosystem and drive innovation in data analytics.

Vibrant Solutions

Series A in 2001
The ViewLogic platform analyzes large volumes of network data and streamlines the greatly detailed processes involved in revenue assurance.