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 PaaS

Portainer

Series A in 2022
Portainer.io Limited specializes in developing open-source user interface tools for managing container-based environments. The company provides a comprehensive container management platform known as Portainer CE, which includes features for application management, cluster management, and various other management services such as identity, storage, and network management. For enterprise customers, Portainer offers Portainer Business, which focuses on container management and orchestration. The platform supports a range of environments, including Kubernetes, Docker, Azure container instances, and Edge computing. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, with an office in Palo Alto, California, Portainer aims to simplify container orchestration systems, making them more accessible and user-friendly for both software developers and IT operations professionals. The intuitive interface provided by Portainer accelerates the adoption of container technology, enhances security, and streamlines software delivery, ultimately aiding enterprises in faster deployment and troubleshooting processes.

Teleport

Series C in 2022
Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere on the planet. Our open source products provide a Unified Access Plane (UAP) for developers and security professionals seeking to simplify secure access to servers, applications, and data across all environments. Our Unified Access Plane solution includes Teleport Server Access, Teleport Kubernetes Access, and Teleport Application Access. Teleport is the UAP of choice among leading companies, including Elastic, Samsung, NASDAQ, and IBM. We are backed by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator and S28 Capital. Teleport is a pioneer in environment-free computing. Headquartered in Oakland, California, we embrace a remote-first work culture. For more information, visit us at https://goteleport.com/ or on Twitter @goteleport

Salto

Series B in 2021
Salto Labs Inc. provides a dashboard for companies to manage their business applications and services. It offers universal configuration language, multi service, multi environment, and dual works mode services. The company provides technology, which includes NaCL, workspace, state, graph view, adapters, fetch, and deploy. It offers business applications, which includes Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, and HubSpot. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Portainer

Series A in 2021
Portainer.io Limited specializes in developing open-source user interface tools for managing container-based environments. The company provides a comprehensive container management platform known as Portainer CE, which includes features for application management, cluster management, and various other management services such as identity, storage, and network management. For enterprise customers, Portainer offers Portainer Business, which focuses on container management and orchestration. The platform supports a range of environments, including Kubernetes, Docker, Azure container instances, and Edge computing. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, with an office in Palo Alto, California, Portainer aims to simplify container orchestration systems, making them more accessible and user-friendly for both software developers and IT operations professionals. The intuitive interface provided by Portainer accelerates the adoption of container technology, enhances security, and streamlines software delivery, ultimately aiding enterprises in faster deployment and troubleshooting processes.

Salto

Series A in 2020
Salto Labs Inc. provides a dashboard for companies to manage their business applications and services. It offers universal configuration language, multi service, multi environment, and dual works mode services. The company provides technology, which includes NaCL, workspace, state, graph view, adapters, fetch, and deploy. It offers business applications, which includes Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, and HubSpot. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Portainer

Seed Round in 2020
Portainer.io Limited specializes in developing open-source user interface tools for managing container-based environments. The company provides a comprehensive container management platform known as Portainer CE, which includes features for application management, cluster management, and various other management services such as identity, storage, and network management. For enterprise customers, Portainer offers Portainer Business, which focuses on container management and orchestration. The platform supports a range of environments, including Kubernetes, Docker, Azure container instances, and Edge computing. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, with an office in Palo Alto, California, Portainer aims to simplify container orchestration systems, making them more accessible and user-friendly for both software developers and IT operations professionals. The intuitive interface provided by Portainer accelerates the adoption of container technology, enhances security, and streamlines software delivery, ultimately aiding enterprises in faster deployment and troubleshooting processes.

Salto

Venture Round in 2019
Salto Labs Inc. provides a dashboard for companies to manage their business applications and services. It offers universal configuration language, multi service, multi environment, and dual works mode services. The company provides technology, which includes NaCL, workspace, state, graph view, adapters, fetch, and deploy. It offers business applications, which includes Salesforce, NetSuite, Marketo, and HubSpot. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Ravello Systems

Series C in 2015
Ravello Systems Inc. specializes in cloud-based virtualization software solutions that allow enterprises to develop, test, and deploy multi-VM applications across various cloud environments, including AWS and Google Cloud. The company offers services such as virtual training for complex application environments, on-demand OpenStack labs for development and testing, and VMware ESXi lab environments for demonstrations and proof of concepts. As the first provider of a Cloud Application Hypervisor, Ravello enables users to encapsulate their applications, facilitating operation on-premise or across any cloud without requiring modifications. This capability supports a true hybrid cloud implementation. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, Ravello Systems operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and is supported by prominent venture capital firms.

Piazza

Series B in 2014
Piazza Technologies, Inc. develops and operates an online collaboration and social learning network platform for students and teachers to communicate about problems in real time. It connects students, TAs, and professors. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Stratoscale

Series A in 2013
Stratoscale is the cloud infrastructure company, providing comprehensive cloud infrastructure software solutions for enterprise IT, development teams and service providers. The company’s comprehensive cloud data center software, Stratoscale Symphony, can be deployed in minutes on commodity x86 servers, providing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience with the ability to augment aging VMware infrastructure. Stratoscale was named a “Cool Vendor in Servers and Virtualization” by Gartner and is backed by over $70M from leading investors including: Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm Ventures, SanDisk and Leslie Ventures.

Plesk

Venture Round in 2013
Plesk is a WebOps platform that specializes in managing, automating, and scaling applications, websites, and hosting businesses. It provides users with the tools to create cloud-based web applications and websites tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) while ensuring automatic security for these digital assets. The platform offers various solutions, including shared hosting, WordPress management, and infrastructure designed for service providers and developers. Headquartered in Switzerland, Plesk operates six global offices in locations such as Toronto, Cologne, Barcelona, Tokyo, and Novosibirsk.

Odin

Venture Round in 2013
Odin provides the software that powers the cloud ecosystem, from small and local hosters to some of the world’s largest telecommunication companies. By partnering with Odin, service providers gain access to industry expertise, a catalog of the most in-demand cloud applications, and the most comprehensive selection of software including web server management, server virtualization, provisioning, and billing automation.

Ravello Systems

Series B in 2012
Ravello Systems Inc. specializes in cloud-based virtualization software solutions that allow enterprises to develop, test, and deploy multi-VM applications across various cloud environments, including AWS and Google Cloud. The company offers services such as virtual training for complex application environments, on-demand OpenStack labs for development and testing, and VMware ESXi lab environments for demonstrations and proof of concepts. As the first provider of a Cloud Application Hypervisor, Ravello enables users to encapsulate their applications, facilitating operation on-premise or across any cloud without requiring modifications. This capability supports a true hybrid cloud implementation. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, Ravello Systems operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and is supported by prominent venture capital firms.

Piazza

Series A in 2012
Piazza Technologies, Inc. develops and operates an online collaboration and social learning network platform for students and teachers to communicate about problems in real time. It connects students, TAs, and professors. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Ravello Systems

Series A in 2011
Ravello Systems Inc. specializes in cloud-based virtualization software solutions that allow enterprises to develop, test, and deploy multi-VM applications across various cloud environments, including AWS and Google Cloud. The company offers services such as virtual training for complex application environments, on-demand OpenStack labs for development and testing, and VMware ESXi lab environments for demonstrations and proof of concepts. As the first provider of a Cloud Application Hypervisor, Ravello enables users to encapsulate their applications, facilitating operation on-premise or across any cloud without requiring modifications. This capability supports a true hybrid cloud implementation. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, Ravello Systems operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and is supported by prominent venture capital firms.

PA Semi

Venture Round in 2009
PA Semi is a fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl who was the lead designer for the DEC Alpha and StrongARM processors. The company previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSPARC.

Parallels

Venture Round in 2009
Parallels develops cross-platform virtualization and automation solutions which allow users to access applications, files, and computers in one place on any device or operating system. It offers businesses and individuals with solutions built for Mac, Windows, iOS, AndroidTM, and the cloud. The company’s products include Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition, Parallels 2X Remote Application Server (2X RAS), Parallels Access, Parallels Transporter, and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). Parallels was founded in 2000 and is based in Renton, Washington.

PA Semi

Series C in 2006
PA Semi is a fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl who was the lead designer for the DEC Alpha and StrongARM processors. The company previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSPARC.

Parallels

Venture Round in 2005
Parallels develops cross-platform virtualization and automation solutions which allow users to access applications, files, and computers in one place on any device or operating system. It offers businesses and individuals with solutions built for Mac, Windows, iOS, AndroidTM, and the cloud. The company’s products include Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition, Parallels 2X Remote Application Server (2X RAS), Parallels Access, Parallels Transporter, and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). Parallels was founded in 2000 and is based in Renton, Washington.

Pelago Networks

Series B in 2002
Pelago Networks is a provider of enhanced voice, data, and video services to their business customers via wireless or wireline broadband access networks.

Pelago Networks

Series A in 2000
Pelago Networks is a provider of enhanced voice, data, and video services to their business customers via wireless or wireline broadband access networks.