Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners

Type	Limited liability company
Industry	Venture Capital
Founded	1911
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California, United States
Products	Investments
Website	www.bvp.com

Bessemer Venture Partners is an American global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Herzliya, Israel, and Mumbai and Bangalore, India. Since its inception in 1911, Bessemer has provided capital to companies such as Box, Pinterest, Quidsi (Diapers.com), Skype, TravelTriangle, Staples Inc., VeriSign, UrbanClap ^[1] and Dick’s Sporting Goods. More than 100 Bessemer companies have gone public, including recent IPO’s from Cornerstone, BroadSoft, LinkedIn, Yelp, Millennial Media, Eloqua and LifeLock

Bessemer Venture Partners is the longest-standing venture capital practice in the United States. In 1911, Henry Phipps established a family office with his share of the proceeds from the sale of Carnegie Steel. Bessemer currently manages more than $4 billion of venture capital. The firm raised a $1.6 billion fund in 2011.

Bessemer partners include Kent Bennett, Ed Colloton, David Cowan, Byron Deeter, Brian Feinstein, Alex Ferrara, Bob Goodman, Adam Fisher, Chris Gabrielli, Vishal Gupta, Felda Hardymon, Steve Kraus, Ethan Kurzweil, Jeremy Levine, Trevor Oelschig, Umesh Padval and Rob Stavis.

References

↑ Shu, Catherine. "UrbanClap, India’s Largest Services Marketplace, Fetches $25 Million Series B". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-01-14.

External links

Bessemer Venture Partners (official website)

Private equity and venture capital

Basic investment types

History

Terms and concepts

Buyout	Financial sponsor Management buyout Divisional buyout Buy–sell agreement Leveraged recapitalization Dividend recapitalization

Venture	Angel investor Business incubator Post-money valuation Pre-money valuation Seed money Startup company Venture capital financing Venture debt Venture round

Structure	Private equity firms and funds Limited partnership Limited liability company Carried interest Management fee Publicly traded private equity Business Development Company Venture capital trust Private investment in public equity (PIPE) Pledge fund

Investors

Related financial terms

Private equity and venture capital investors
Private equity firms
Venture capital firms
Angel investors
Portfolio companies

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