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Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is a $4B venture capital firm that started with innovations in the steel industry but now funds consumer, enterprise and healthcare startups around the world, from seed stage to growth.
BVP have funded the early stages of well known household names such as Pinterest, Blue Apron, Skype, Skybox Imaging, Twitch and Periscope. They have also helped build over 120 IPOs in the last 50 years including Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, Shopify and Wix.
BVP's 15 investing partners operate from offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Israel, and India.
Map showing the location of Bessemer Venture Partners
Menlo Park,
United States
Key people
Scott Ring
Partner & General counsel
Scott Smith
Operating Partner
Sisi Song
Vice President
Nancy Straface
Vice president of investment accounting
Sara Byrne
Director, GP Accounting
Mayo Stuntz
Operating Partner
Andy Geisse
Operating Partner
Chris Gabrieli
Partner - Cambridge, Massachusetts Emeritus
Lindsay McNeil
Senior Associate Counsel
Nadia Buonocore
Director of Fund Accounting and Operations
Sandy Grippo
CFO
Tess Hatch
Partner
Ross Biestman
CRO Executive in Residence
Felda Hardymon
Partner
David Cowan
Partner
Robert Goodman
Partner
Robert Stavis
Partner
Ed Colloton
Partner
Stephen Kraus
Partner
Chini Krishnan
Operating Partner
Byron Deeter
Partner
Vishal Gupta
Managing Director, Partner
Jeremy Levine
Partner
Adam Fisher
Partner
Kent Bennett
Partner
Brian Feinstein
Partner
Ethan Kurzweil
Partner
Ashton Newhall
Advisory Board Member
Jeff Epstein
Operating Partner
Amit Karp
Partner
Alex Ferrara
Partner
Charles Birnbaum
Partner
Miia Laukkarinen
VP of Talent
Sakib Dadi
Vice President
Andrew Geisse
Operating Partner
Augie Wilkinson
Director of Portfolio Monitoring & Analysis
Dhruv Jain
Venture Capital Investor
David Wehrs
Partner, Head of BVP Funded
Chris Parker
Business Development & Community
Michael Segal
Vice President
Talia Goldberg
Partner
Mary D'Onofrio
Partner
Rani Yadav
EIR
Ben Mathews
Vice President
Elliott Robinson
Partner, Bessemer Growth
Mike Droesch
Partner
Alexandra Sukin
Investor
Andrew Hedin
Principal
Janice Teng
Vice President
Shannon Stubo Brayton
Partner and Chief Marketing Officer
Michael Giampapa
Vice President
Hansae Catlett
Vice President
Libby Leffler
Operating Advisor
Bryan Wu
Partner
Sameer Dholakia
Partner
Katherine Walker
Vice President
Sagnik Nandy
Operating Advisor