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 Travel

Upside

Debt Financing in 2022
Upside Travel Company, LLC operates a platform designed to create customized travel packages for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded in 2015 and based in Washington, D.C., the company specializes in international travel, offering round-trip airfares and hotel accommodations, along with gift card options. Upside focuses on transforming the business travel experience by combining innovative tools and dedicated support to streamline travel management for its clients. The company aims to enhance the efficiency and enjoyment of business travel, making it a more engaging process for companies.

Upside

Series D in 2022
Upside Travel Company, LLC operates a platform designed to create customized travel packages for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded in 2015 and based in Washington, D.C., the company specializes in international travel, offering round-trip airfares and hotel accommodations, along with gift card options. Upside focuses on transforming the business travel experience by combining innovative tools and dedicated support to streamline travel management for its clients. The company aims to enhance the efficiency and enjoyment of business travel, making it a more engaging process for companies.

Upside

Series C in 2020
Upside Travel Company, LLC operates a platform designed to create customized travel packages for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded in 2015 and based in Washington, D.C., the company specializes in international travel, offering round-trip airfares and hotel accommodations, along with gift card options. Upside focuses on transforming the business travel experience by combining innovative tools and dedicated support to streamline travel management for its clients. The company aims to enhance the efficiency and enjoyment of business travel, making it a more engaging process for companies.

Skylark

Seed Round in 2019
Skylark Travel Group, Inc. is an online luxury travel agency that specializes in providing a range of travel products and solutions, including air tickets, customized holiday packages, and hotel bookings. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company focuses on enhancing the travel experience by combining advanced technology with personalized service. Skylark aims to create exceptional vacations through competitive pricing and premium amenities, offering clients the option to utilize high-tech trip-planning tools while also benefiting from expert advice when needed. The agency's approach prioritizes customer satisfaction and peace of mind, ensuring a seamless booking experience for luxury travelers.

Pana

Series A in 2019
Pana is a computer software company that specializes in mobile, online travel, and mobile commerce. The company is driven by its mission is to make travel simple, personal, and delightful. From an app, they make booking travel as easy as texting a friend, provide white-glove care for the highs and lows of travel, and offer travel perks, rewards, and experiences. Pana was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Noken

Seed Round in 2018
Noken curates trips to introduce people to a new country. Travelers adapt a Noken Travel Blueprint based on their budgets and timelines and book their accommodations, experiences and transportation. These Travel Blueprints balance helpful guidance with the ability to create your own adventure, introducing travelers to the country’s iconic landmarks as well as local gems. Once on the trip, travelers can find everything they need in the App Guide and chat with the Experience Team for real-time support. Noken gives travelers the best of both worlds: the liberation from countless hours of planning and the guidance on the ground to meet a new country.

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.

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.

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.