Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners, established in 1911, is a prominent venture capital firm headquartered in Redwood City, California, with a global presence. The firm invests in early-stage to growth-stage companies across various sectors, including software, TMT, healthcare, fintech, and consumer products. With a portfolio boasting successful companies like Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, and Yelp, Bessemer Venture Partners has a proven track record in helping entrepreneurs build enduring companies. The firm manages multiple funds, totaling over $4 billion in assets, and provides support to founders from seed stage through to growth, fostering long-term relationships with its portfolio companies.

Anurag Begwani

Vice President

Thomas Berger

Partner

Charles Birnbaum

Partner

Sam Bondy

Investor

Sara Byrne

Partner and CFO

Aparna Chaganty

Investor

Justina Chung

Vice President

David Cowan

Partner

Brian Cramer

Operating Partner

Mary D'Onofrio

Partner

Byron Deeter

Partner

Sameer Dholakia

Partner

John Drake

Investor

Mike Droesch

Vice President

Jeff Epstein

Operating Partner

Brian Feinstein

Partner

Adam Ferrara

Partner

Alex Ferrara

Partner

Adam Fisher

Partner

Andrew Geisse

Operating Partner

Talia Goldberg

Partner

Bob Goodman

Partner

Alexa Grabelle

Investor

Sandy Grippo

COO and Partner

Sofia Guerra

Vice President, Cambridge office

Felda Hardymon

Partner

Tess Hatch

Partner

Andrew Hedin

Partner

Nithin Kaimal

COO

Eric Kaplan

Vice President and Investor

Amit Karp

Partner

Hannah Kim

Vice President

Stephen Kraus

Partner

Ethan Kurzweil

Partner

Lindsey Li

Vice President

Grace Ma

Investor

Maha Malik

Investor

Bhavik Nagda

Investor

Aditya Nidmarti

Investor

Bob O'Neil

Venture Partner

Darsh Patel

Investor

Anant Vidur Puri

Partner

Caty Rea

Vice President

Elliott Robinson

Partner and Co-Founder of the Growth Investment Practice

Raj Sabhlok

Operating Partner

Aia Sarycheva

Vice President

Jason Scheller

Investor

Yael Schiff

Vice President

Andrew Schmitt

Investor

David Selverian

Investor

Madeline Shue

Investor

Smith, Scott

Operating Partner

Robert Stavis

Partner

Ariel Sterman

Partner

Nancy Straface

Director of IT and Managed Services

Mayo Stuntz

Operating Partner

Alexandra Sukin

Vice President

Vatsalya Tandon

Investor

Janice Teng

Vice President

Katherine Walker

Vice President

Christopher Wan

Vice President

Bryan Wu

Partner

Alex Yuditski

Investor

Past deals in Real Time

Render

Series C in 2025
Render is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that provides a unified cloud platform designed to enhance the developer experience. The platform enables developers and teams to build, run, and host applications and websites with features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automatic deployments from GitHub. Render's goal is to eliminate the need for server management by offering a flexible and powerful cloud solution that supports various types of applications, including web apps, static sites, background workers, APIs, cron jobs, Docker files, and PostgreSQL databases. This approach aims to reduce complexity and cost, allowing software teams to deliver products quickly and at any scale.

Wrapbook

Venture Round in 2024
Wrapbook is a production payroll and cost-tracking platform designed to streamline the payroll process for the entertainment industry. It connects teams—comprising accounting, production, cast, and crew—through a user-friendly interface that simplifies various tasks. The platform allows companies to process payments with ease, track expenses in real-time, and generate payroll reports on demand. Additionally, it offers features such as smart onboarding, automated timecards, and built-in union compliance, enhancing security and efficiency in payroll management. By providing digital payment services for vendors and contractors, as well as tools for tax filing, billable time tracking, and expense approval, Wrapbook enables clients to concentrate on their creative work without the distraction of complex systems and compliance challenges.

JARS AI

Seed Round in 2024
JARS AI is a technology company that develops a web-based platform for creating personalized, interactive shows using advanced generative AI. The platform leverages multiple large language models to transform social chat prompts into short, real-time episodes, allowing users to enjoy content based on live chat submissions.

Axion Ray

Series A in 2024
Axion Ray is an integrity intelligence platform that specializes in automating engineering and quality analytics for manufacturing teams. The company leverages advanced artificial intelligence to extract actionable insights from unstructured manufacturing data in real time. By identifying potential engineering issues months in advance, Axion Ray enables businesses to intervene proactively, minimizing the risk of costly recalls. Its technology is designed to enhance decision-making for engineering leaders across various industries, including automotive, aerospace, and defense. By collaborating with manufacturers, Axion Ray identifies safety and quality risks from diverse data sources such as service networks, dealerships, connected sensors, production, and supplier management.

Render

Series B in 2023
Render is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2018 that provides a unified cloud platform designed to enhance the developer experience. The platform enables developers and teams to build, run, and host applications and websites with features such as free secure sockets layer (SSL), a global content delivery network (CDN), and automatic deployments from GitHub. Render's goal is to eliminate the need for server management by offering a flexible and powerful cloud solution that supports various types of applications, including web apps, static sites, background workers, APIs, cron jobs, Docker files, and PostgreSQL databases. This approach aims to reduce complexity and cost, allowing software teams to deliver products quickly and at any scale.

Entropik

Series B in 2023
Entropik is a human insights company that specializes in measuring and analyzing customer experience (CX), user experience (UX), and market research (MR) in real time. The company has developed an online emotion intelligence platform that utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to assess cognitive and emotional responses of consumers. By tracking user activation and valence levels through touch gestures, Entropik's patented Emotion AI technologies enhance quantitative, qualitative, and UX research methods. This integration allows companies to make faster, more informed, and less biased decisions, ultimately enabling brands to optimize customer experience journeys and address real business challenges effectively.

Imply

Series D in 2022
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.

Teleport

Series C in 2022
Teleport is a software company that specializes in providing solutions for deploying and managing applications across various cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure environments. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oakland, California, with additional offices in Seattle and Toronto, Teleport offers a range of products including a unified access platform, server access, Kubernetes access, application access, and cloud services. The company's Infrastructure Identity Platform modernizes identity, access, and policy management for both human and non-human identities, thereby enhancing engineering efficiency and resilience against security threats. Teleport's approach integrates access management, zero trust networking, identity governance, and identity security into a cohesive platform, streamlining operations and reducing the complexity typically associated with traditional on-premises software. This enables engineers to securely access computing resources anywhere while meeting compliance requirements in restricted and regulated environments.

Arcion

Series A in 2022
Arcion is a cloud-native data mobility platform that specializes in high-performance, real-time data pipelines. The company offers an autonomous migration and cloud-neutral database replication solution, allowing businesses to efficiently migrate database updates to streaming data pipelines. This capability provides a consistent, real-time view of customer data and business intelligence across various applications and business units. By streamlining data migration processes, Arcion helps organizations reduce migration and licensing costs while enhancing the productivity of their engineering teams.

Firebolt

Series C in 2022
Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2019. It is designed to provide an efficient data analytics experience at any scale, integrating the high-performance capabilities of a modern database architecture with the extensive scalability of data lakes. Firebolt’s platform enables data engineering and development teams to create data applications that ensure quick, user-friendly access to insights at terabyte scale. By leveraging advanced technology and recent academic research in the big data field, Firebolt allows analysts and end-users to obtain timely results without concerns over performance or cost.

Firebolt

Series B in 2021
Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2019. It is designed to provide an efficient data analytics experience at any scale, integrating the high-performance capabilities of a modern database architecture with the extensive scalability of data lakes. Firebolt’s platform enables data engineering and development teams to create data applications that ensure quick, user-friendly access to insights at terabyte scale. By leveraging advanced technology and recent academic research in the big data field, Firebolt allows analysts and end-users to obtain timely results without concerns over performance or cost.

Imply

Series C in 2021
Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, offers a comprehensive real-time analytics platform that leverages the capabilities of Apache Druid, an open-source database optimized for event-driven and streaming data. The company's multi-cloud platform enables organizations to ingest and visualize petabyte-scale datasets in real-time, facilitating monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics with sub-second query response times. This innovative approach, termed analytics-in-motion, allows businesses to transition from traditional, static analytics solutions to interactive and highly scalable options. Imply serves a diverse clientele, including some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, providing tools for building analytics-powered applications and addressing various business intelligence and operational analytics needs. With a presence in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Imply is at the forefront of a new category of real-time analytics solutions.

Firebolt

Series A in 2020
Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2019. It is designed to provide an efficient data analytics experience at any scale, integrating the high-performance capabilities of a modern database architecture with the extensive scalability of data lakes. Firebolt’s platform enables data engineering and development teams to create data applications that ensure quick, user-friendly access to insights at terabyte scale. By leveraging advanced technology and recent academic research in the big data field, Firebolt allows analysts and end-users to obtain timely results without concerns over performance or cost.

Streamloots

Venture Round in 2020
Streamloots is a marketplace that enables live streamers and their viewers to engage in real-time interactions. Founded in 2018 and based in San Mateo, California, with an additional location in Cartagena, Spain, Streamloots allows streamers to create and sell custom interactive content, such as emotes, sounds, and chat commands. This platform transforms interactions into products that viewers can purchase, collect, and trade, enhancing the streaming experience and fostering a deeper connection between influencers and their audiences. By offering a structured way for streamers to monetize their engagement, Streamloots facilitates a unique and interactive environment across various streaming platforms.

Firebolt

Venture Round in 2020
Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2019. It is designed to provide an efficient data analytics experience at any scale, integrating the high-performance capabilities of a modern database architecture with the extensive scalability of data lakes. Firebolt’s platform enables data engineering and development teams to create data applications that ensure quick, user-friendly access to insights at terabyte scale. By leveraging advanced technology and recent academic research in the big data field, Firebolt allows analysts and end-users to obtain timely results without concerns over performance or cost.

Streamloots

Series A in 2020
Streamloots is a marketplace that enables live streamers and their viewers to engage in real-time interactions. Founded in 2018 and based in San Mateo, California, with an additional location in Cartagena, Spain, Streamloots allows streamers to create and sell custom interactive content, such as emotes, sounds, and chat commands. This platform transforms interactions into products that viewers can purchase, collect, and trade, enhancing the streaming experience and fostering a deeper connection between influencers and their audiences. By offering a structured way for streamers to monetize their engagement, Streamloots facilitates a unique and interactive environment across various streaming platforms.

Netdata

Series A in 2020
Netdata, Inc. is a monitoring software company headquartered in Redwood City, California, founded in 2018. The company specializes in health monitoring and performance troubleshooting solutions that diagnose slowdowns and anomalies in various infrastructures. Its software is designed to collect metrics from a wide range of sources, including servers, containers, and applications, in real-time and at high resolution. Netdata’s platform features interactive web dashboards that provide immediate insights into system performance through clear visualizations and health alarms. It supports over 800 integrations and uses machine learning for unsupervised anomaly detection, allowing it to automatically identify and alert users to issues in their environments. The solution is scalable, functioning effectively from single servers to extensive multi-cloud deployments, and is designed for low maintenance with automated dashboards and alerts. Netdata's modular architecture also allows for easy integration with other monitoring solutions, making it a versatile choice for organizations seeking to enhance their system performance and reliability.

Netdata

Venture Round in 2020
Netdata, Inc. is a monitoring software company headquartered in Redwood City, California, founded in 2018. The company specializes in health monitoring and performance troubleshooting solutions that diagnose slowdowns and anomalies in various infrastructures. Its software is designed to collect metrics from a wide range of sources, including servers, containers, and applications, in real-time and at high resolution. Netdata’s platform features interactive web dashboards that provide immediate insights into system performance through clear visualizations and health alarms. It supports over 800 integrations and uses machine learning for unsupervised anomaly detection, allowing it to automatically identify and alert users to issues in their environments. The solution is scalable, functioning effectively from single servers to extensive multi-cloud deployments, and is designed for low maintenance with automated dashboards and alerts. Netdata's modular architecture also allows for easy integration with other monitoring solutions, making it a versatile choice for organizations seeking to enhance their system performance and reliability.

Highrise

Seed Round in 2018
Highrise is a creative mobile community where people create avatars, express themselves, and make friends. Its platform includes built-in user-generated avatars that let its users engage in real-time virtual chats, read reviews, surf across the latest news feed and keep in touch with their friends to customize and self-designed games, enabling users to make new friends, host real-time games and create fun contents for publicizing. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Highrise

Seed Round in 2018
Highrise is a creative mobile community where people create avatars, express themselves, and make friends. Its platform includes built-in user-generated avatars that let its users engage in real-time virtual chats, read reviews, surf across the latest news feed and keep in touch with their friends to customize and self-designed games, enabling users to make new friends, host real-time games and create fun contents for publicizing. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rabbit

Series B in 2017
Rabbit, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in developing a web and mobile application designed for shared viewing experiences. Founded in 2011, Rabbit enables users to connect with friends through video chat and content sharing, allowing them to watch shows, movies, and videos together in real-time, regardless of their physical location. The platform supports interactions such as creating personalized rooms for group chats, discovering new content, and listening to music collaboratively. By integrating with social media, users can invite friends and engage in shared entertainment experiences, enhancing communication and connection through video and multimedia.

Fam

Convertible Note in 2017
Fam's mission is to build products that revolutionize the way teens and millennials communicate. They believe in a calculated combination of live group video and group chat messaging to execute this. It is the world’s first group video chat app for iMessage, with over 7 million users. Their app instantly connects with the family and friends closest to its user through group video calling, right from their iPhone, and Android text message app.

Rabbit

Series A in 2015
Rabbit, Inc. is a technology company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in developing a web and mobile application designed for shared viewing experiences. Founded in 2011, Rabbit enables users to connect with friends through video chat and content sharing, allowing them to watch shows, movies, and videos together in real-time, regardless of their physical location. The platform supports interactions such as creating personalized rooms for group chats, discovering new content, and listening to music collaboratively. By integrating with social media, users can invite friends and engage in shared entertainment experiences, enhancing communication and connection through video and multimedia.

N Toggle

Series A in 2015
nToggle delivers heightened efficiency and transparency for buyers and sellers amidst the rapid rise of programmatic advertising. nToggle's proprietary algorithm-driven software platform helps supply and demand partners manage the ever expanding bid stream. nToggle's big data platform “toggles” real time bidding requests across all digital media utilizing the latest analytical and machine learning techniques to optimally match supply and demand.

LiveAuctioneers

Venture Round in 2014
LiveAuctioneers is an online marketplace that facilitates live auctions for art, antiques, jewelry, and collectibles, connecting buyers and sellers from around the globe. The platform broadcasts thousands of auctions in real time, providing customers with the opportunity to participate in bidding for unique items from virtually any location. By offering a diverse selection of collectibles and fine art, LiveAuctioneers enables users to access rare and valuable pieces in an engaging live bidding format.

Life360

Series C in 2014
Life360, Inc. is a mobile application company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that focuses on enhancing family connectivity and safety. Founded in 2007, Life360 provides a platform for families to communicate, share locations, and monitor driving safety. The app, which serves millions of users in over 140 countries, offers features such as private location sharing, location history, crash detection, roadside assistance, and emergency alerts through both free and paid subscriptions. As the world's largest family-oriented social network, Life360 has over 50 million monthly active users and consistently ranks among the top social networking apps in the United States. The company's mission is to help families stay connected and secure by providing essential tools that address the needs of modern family life.

Life360

Series B in 2013
Life360, Inc. is a mobile application company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that focuses on enhancing family connectivity and safety. Founded in 2007, Life360 provides a platform for families to communicate, share locations, and monitor driving safety. The app, which serves millions of users in over 140 countries, offers features such as private location sharing, location history, crash detection, roadside assistance, and emergency alerts through both free and paid subscriptions. As the world's largest family-oriented social network, Life360 has over 50 million monthly active users and consistently ranks among the top social networking apps in the United States. The company's mission is to help families stay connected and secure by providing essential tools that address the needs of modern family life.

Life360

Series A in 2011
Life360, Inc. is a mobile application company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that focuses on enhancing family connectivity and safety. Founded in 2007, Life360 provides a platform for families to communicate, share locations, and monitor driving safety. The app, which serves millions of users in over 140 countries, offers features such as private location sharing, location history, crash detection, roadside assistance, and emergency alerts through both free and paid subscriptions. As the world's largest family-oriented social network, Life360 has over 50 million monthly active users and consistently ranks among the top social networking apps in the United States. The company's mission is to help families stay connected and secure by providing essential tools that address the needs of modern family life.

ACTIV Financial Systems

Venture Round in 2010
ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc. is a provider of real-time multi-asset financial market data and solutions, focusing on electronic trading strategies. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, the company offers a range of products including ActivWorkstation, which provides access to comprehensive market data, and low-latency feed solutions through ActivFeed. Their technology suite includes ActivMiddleware for building large-scale real-time distributed systems and ActivMessaging for efficient message delivery. Additionally, ACTIV Financial provides managed solutions such as hosted delivery and co-location management, serving exchanges, enterprises, and automated trading platforms. The company's offerings encompass algorithmic and electronic trading tools, market making solutions, and support services, catering to a diverse clientele that includes brokerage firms, proprietary traders, and hedge fund managers. With data centers located globally, including in major financial hubs like New York, London, and Tokyo, ACTIV Financial Systems is positioned to meet the demands of the fast-paced financial markets.

Streambase Systems

Series D in 2009
StreamBase Systems offers software enabling businesses to swiftly develop systems that analyze and respond to real-time streaming data, facilitating immediate decision-making. Their Event Processing Platform comprises a rapid application development environment (StreamBase Studio), a high-speed event server, and extensive connectivity options for both real-time and historical data. This platform is employed by investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies to create applications that enhance revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risk. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Streambase Systems

Series C in 2007
StreamBase Systems offers software enabling businesses to swiftly develop systems that analyze and respond to real-time streaming data, facilitating immediate decision-making. Their Event Processing Platform comprises a rapid application development environment (StreamBase Studio), a high-speed event server, and extensive connectivity options for both real-time and historical data. This platform is employed by investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies to create applications that enhance revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risk. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Streambase Systems

Series B in 2005
StreamBase Systems offers software enabling businesses to swiftly develop systems that analyze and respond to real-time streaming data, facilitating immediate decision-making. Their Event Processing Platform comprises a rapid application development environment (StreamBase Studio), a high-speed event server, and extensive connectivity options for both real-time and historical data. This platform is employed by investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies to create applications that enhance revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risk. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

HyperRoll

Series C in 2004
HyperRoll is a provider of data warehouse performance acceleration software that significantly enhances the efficiency of data management. Its flagship offering, the HyperRoll Data Performance Management Suite, improves load times, query times, and overall throughput for data warehouses, enabling organizations to respond quickly to changes in data and metadata. The suite is designed to reduce the total cost of ownership for data warehouses through its innovative software architecture. In addition to its core performance management solutions, HyperRoll also delivers a range of services including advisory, consulting, education, and technical support, catering to various sectors such as consumer products, retail, finance, supply chain, and customer relationship management.

Streambase Systems

Series A in 2003
StreamBase Systems offers software enabling businesses to swiftly develop systems that analyze and respond to real-time streaming data, facilitating immediate decision-making. Their Event Processing Platform comprises a rapid application development environment (StreamBase Studio), a high-speed event server, and extensive connectivity options for both real-time and historical data. This platform is employed by investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies to create applications that enhance revenue, reduce costs, and mitigate risk. The company is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Traffic.com

Venture Round in 1999
Traffic.com believe that we are a leading provider of accurate, real-time traffic information in the United States, based on the quality of our traffic data and the extent of their geographic coverage. They offer detailed traffic information, including specific speeds, travel times and delay times.

Relevance AI

Relevance AI is a company that specializes in developing a vector platform designed to transform unstructured data into actionable insights and build end-to-end large language model applications. The company's platform leverages artificial intelligence vectors to reveal the semantics of qualitative data with minimal labeling or training, making it accessible and affordable for companies of any size. Relevance AI offers two main products: AI Tools, which facilitate seamless integration into workflows for automating repetitive tasks, and AI Agents, which streamline complete workflows in areas such as marketing, sales, and research. The company aims to empower teams by enabling businesses to automate intricate reasoning tasks without the need for a team of expert AI engineers, thereby ensuring that limitations are driven by ideas rather than organizational size.

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source database management system specializing in online analytical processing (OLAP). It uniquely stores data column-wise, reducing storage needs and enhancing query performance through vectorized processing. This design enables real-time analytics by efficiently handling large datasets, offering enterprises a reliable, scalable solution for data processing.
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