Bessemer Venture Partners X

Bessemer Venture Partners is a prominent venture capital firm that assists entrepreneurs in establishing robust foundations for their companies. With a portfolio that includes notable names such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, and LinkedIn, Bessemer focuses on investing across various sectors, including healthcare, information technology, cybersecurity, and software as a service (SaaS). The firm has a global presence, with investments in the United States, Israel, and India, and manages a substantial asset base of approximately $19 billion. Bessemer's investment approach spans from seed stage to growth, enabling them to support startups and established companies alike as they evolve and scale. The firm is recognized for its long-term commitment to its portfolio companies, having played a crucial role in the successful IPOs of numerous high-profile businesses.

Kent Bennett

Partner

Sara Byrne

CFO and Partner

Mary D'Onofrio

Partner

Sameer Dholakia

Partner

Mike Droesch

Partner

Jeff Epstein

Operating Partner

Alex Ferrara

Partner

Talia Goldberg

Partner

Sandy Grippo

CFO

Felda Hardymon

Partner

Tess Hatch

Partner

Andrew Hedin

Partner

Stephen Kraus

Partner

Chini Krishnan

Operating Partner

Jeremy Levine

Partner

Anant Vidur Puri

Partner

Elliott Robinson

Partner and Co-Founder of the Growth Investment Practice

Aia Sarycheva

Investor

Smith, Scott

Operating Partner

Robert Stavis

Partner

Ariel Sterman

Vice President

Mayo Stuntz

Operating Partner

Janice Teng

Vice President

Katherine Walker

Vice President

Bryan Wu

Partner

Brian Feinstein

Partner

Charles Birnbaum

Partner

Sakib Dadi

Vice President

Past deals in Real Time

Axion Ray

Series A in 2024
Axion Ray is an integrity intelligence platform that specializes in automating engineering and quality analytics for manufacturing teams. By extracting actionable insights from unstructured manufacturing data in real time, the platform enables businesses to identify potential engineering issues months in advance, thereby facilitating timely interventions to prevent costly recalls. The company collaborates with manufacturers across various sectors, including automotive, aerospace, and defense, to assess safety and quality risks derived from diverse data sources such as service networks, dealerships, connected sensors, production, and supplier management. This technology empowers engineering leaders with enhanced visibility into the future implications of current decisions and actions, ultimately supporting improved quality management and predictive capabilities within their operations.

Render

Series B in 2023
Render is a cloud hosting platform designed for developers and teams to build and run applications and websites efficiently. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company aims to simplify the development process by eliminating the need for server management. Render's platform supports a variety of functions, including the deployment of web apps, static sites, background workers, APIs, cron jobs, dockerfiles, and PostgreSQL databases. It features free secure sockets layer (SSL) certificates, a global content delivery network (CDN), and automated deployment from GitHub, all of which facilitate rapid product development and scalability. By enhancing the developer experience, Render seeks to empower teams to deliver software solutions more effectively and foster innovation in application development.

Entropik

Series B in 2023
Entropik is a human insights company that specializes in measuring, analyzing, and optimizing customer experience (CX), user experience (UX), and market research (MR) in real time. The company has developed an online emotion intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to assess the 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 efficient, and unbiased decisions, ultimately optimizing customer experience journeys and addressing real business challenges.

InfinyOn

Seed Round in 2022
InfinyOn is a programmable data streaming platform that manages data movement between users, services, and locations. The platform empowers app developers, data engineers, and IT operators to build and deploy a new generation of services that accelerate decision-making and improve customer experience.

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 designed for next-generation analytics. The platform enables organizations to handle event-driven and streaming data with high scalability and rapid data visualization, allowing decision-makers to access petabyte-scale datasets efficiently. Imply focuses on a category it terms "analytics-in-motion," which emphasizes interactive and cost-effective analytics solutions as opposed to traditional static approaches. By supporting real-time ingestion and analysis, Imply empowers leading companies globally to enhance their business intelligence and operational analytics. The company operates in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, receiving backing from notable investors in the technology sector.

Arcion

Series A in 2022
Arcion is a cloud-native data mobility platform that specializes in creating high-performance, real-time data pipelines. The platform enables autonomous migration and cloud-neutral database replication, facilitating seamless database updates to streaming data pipelines. Arcion provides businesses with a consistent, real-time view of customer data and assets across various applications and business units. This capability helps organizations reduce migration and licensing costs while enhancing the productivity of their engineering teams. By eliminating the need for code, Arcion simplifies the data migration process, making it accessible to a broader range of users.

Firebolt

Series C in 2022
Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse company founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It focuses on providing a seamless and efficient data analytics experience, catering to the needs of data engineering and development teams. By merging high-performance database architecture with the scalability of data lakes, Firebolt enables users to perform analytics at terabyte scale with sub-second response times. This approach allows analysts and end users to access valuable insights quickly and cost-effectively, enhancing the overall user experience in data applications.

Firebolt

Series B in 2021
Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse company founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It focuses on providing a seamless and efficient data analytics experience, catering to the needs of data engineering and development teams. By merging high-performance database architecture with the scalability of data lakes, Firebolt enables users to perform analytics at terabyte scale with sub-second response times. This approach allows analysts and end users to access valuable insights quickly and cost-effectively, enhancing the overall user experience in data applications.

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 designed for next-generation analytics. The platform enables organizations to handle event-driven and streaming data with high scalability and rapid data visualization, allowing decision-makers to access petabyte-scale datasets efficiently. Imply focuses on a category it terms "analytics-in-motion," which emphasizes interactive and cost-effective analytics solutions as opposed to traditional static approaches. By supporting real-time ingestion and analysis, Imply empowers leading companies globally to enhance their business intelligence and operational analytics. The company operates in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, receiving backing from notable investors in the technology sector.

Firebolt

Series A in 2020
Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse company founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It focuses on providing a seamless and efficient data analytics experience, catering to the needs of data engineering and development teams. By merging high-performance database architecture with the scalability of data lakes, Firebolt enables users to perform analytics at terabyte scale with sub-second response times. This approach allows analysts and end users to access valuable insights quickly and cost-effectively, enhancing the overall user experience in data applications.

Streamloots

Venture Round in 2020
Streamloots operates a marketplace that facilitates real-time interactions between live streamers and their audiences. Founded in 2018 and based in San Mateo, California, with an additional location in Cartagena, Spain, the platform enables streamers to define and sell custom interactive content, such as emotes and chat commands, which viewers can purchase and use to engage with their favorite influencers. This interaction not only enhances the streaming experience but also provides a monetization avenue for streamers who lack traditional products to offer. Streamloots' technology integrates seamlessly with various streaming platforms, allowing for dynamic engagement between content creators and their followers.

Firebolt

Venture Round in 2020
Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse company founded in 2019 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It focuses on providing a seamless and efficient data analytics experience, catering to the needs of data engineering and development teams. By merging high-performance database architecture with the scalability of data lakes, Firebolt enables users to perform analytics at terabyte scale with sub-second response times. This approach allows analysts and end users to access valuable insights quickly and cost-effectively, enhancing the overall user experience in data applications.

Netdata

Series A in 2020
Netdata, Inc. is a company that specializes in health monitoring and performance troubleshooting solutions for infrastructure. Incorporated in 2018 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Netdata's software automatically detects various metrics and provides real-time insights into systems and applications through interactive visualizations and health alarms. The platform is designed to monitor a wide range of environments, including physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge devices. It collects metrics with high resolution per second and offers low-latency dashboards that scale efficiently from a single server to thousands. Netdata features unsupervised anomaly detection, powerful visualization tools, and pre-configured alerts to identify common issues promptly. The solution is automated, requiring minimal maintenance, and supports integration with various monitoring systems, making it a versatile choice for organizations seeking to enhance the performance and health of their distributed systems.

Streamloots

Series A in 2020
Streamloots operates a marketplace that facilitates real-time interactions between live streamers and their audiences. Founded in 2018 and based in San Mateo, California, with an additional location in Cartagena, Spain, the platform enables streamers to define and sell custom interactive content, such as emotes and chat commands, which viewers can purchase and use to engage with their favorite influencers. This interaction not only enhances the streaming experience but also provides a monetization avenue for streamers who lack traditional products to offer. Streamloots' technology integrates seamlessly with various streaming platforms, allowing for dynamic engagement between content creators and their followers.

Netdata

Venture Round in 2020
Netdata, Inc. is a company that specializes in health monitoring and performance troubleshooting solutions for infrastructure. Incorporated in 2018 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Netdata's software automatically detects various metrics and provides real-time insights into systems and applications through interactive visualizations and health alarms. The platform is designed to monitor a wide range of environments, including physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge devices. It collects metrics with high resolution per second and offers low-latency dashboards that scale efficiently from a single server to thousands. Netdata features unsupervised anomaly detection, powerful visualization tools, and pre-configured alerts to identify common issues promptly. The solution is automated, requiring minimal maintenance, and supports integration with various monitoring systems, making it a versatile choice for organizations seeking to enhance the performance and health of their distributed systems.

Previse

Venture Round in 2020
Previse is a financial technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate instant payments for corporate buyers, ensuring that all suppliers are paid immediately. This system eliminates the need for suppliers to depend on costly short-term credit, reducing expenses for buyers and empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reinvest in their growth, ultimately benefiting the economy. Suppliers can agree to instant payments with a simple click. Previse employs extensive data analysis and advanced algorithms to assess a corporate buyer's likelihood of settling invoices, allowing funders to quickly release funds to suppliers. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing payment technologies used by buyers and funders, requiring no alterations to their current processes or infrastructure, thus ensuring a frictionless adoption.

Previse

Series A in 2018
Previse is a financial technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate instant payments for corporate buyers, ensuring that all suppliers are paid immediately. This system eliminates the need for suppliers to depend on costly short-term credit, reducing expenses for buyers and empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reinvest in their growth, ultimately benefiting the economy. Suppliers can agree to instant payments with a simple click. Previse employs extensive data analysis and advanced algorithms to assess a corporate buyer's likelihood of settling invoices, allowing funders to quickly release funds to suppliers. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing payment technologies used by buyers and funders, requiring no alterations to their current processes or infrastructure, thus ensuring a frictionless adoption.

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.

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.

Twilio

Series E in 2015
Twilio is a cloud-based communications platform that provides developers and businesses with the tools to create customized communication experiences. By offering a range of application programming interfaces (APIs), Twilio allows users to integrate voice, video, messaging, and authentication features directly into their applications. This enables enhanced customer engagement and more contextual communications. The company utilizes its global network of carrier relationships, known as the Super Network, to ensure efficient and cost-effective communication solutions. Additionally, Twilio supports startups in Europe through its dedicated fund, which encourages the use of its web service APIs to foster innovation in various business sectors.

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.

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.

Twilio

Series D in 2013
Twilio is a cloud-based communications platform that provides developers and businesses with the tools to create customized communication experiences. By offering a range of application programming interfaces (APIs), Twilio allows users to integrate voice, video, messaging, and authentication features directly into their applications. This enables enhanced customer engagement and more contextual communications. The company utilizes its global network of carrier relationships, known as the Super Network, to ensure efficient and cost-effective communication solutions. Additionally, Twilio supports startups in Europe through its dedicated fund, which encourages the use of its web service APIs to foster innovation in various business sectors.

Twilio

Series C in 2011
Twilio is a cloud-based communications platform that provides developers and businesses with the tools to create customized communication experiences. By offering a range of application programming interfaces (APIs), Twilio allows users to integrate voice, video, messaging, and authentication features directly into their applications. This enables enhanced customer engagement and more contextual communications. The company utilizes its global network of carrier relationships, known as the Super Network, to ensure efficient and cost-effective communication solutions. Additionally, Twilio supports startups in Europe through its dedicated fund, which encourages the use of its web service APIs to foster innovation in various business sectors.

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.

Twilio

Series B in 2010
Twilio is a cloud-based communications platform that provides developers and businesses with the tools to create customized communication experiences. By offering a range of application programming interfaces (APIs), Twilio allows users to integrate voice, video, messaging, and authentication features directly into their applications. This enables enhanced customer engagement and more contextual communications. The company utilizes its global network of carrier relationships, known as the Super Network, to ensure efficient and cost-effective communication solutions. Additionally, Twilio supports startups in Europe through its dedicated fund, which encourages the use of its web service APIs to foster innovation in various business sectors.

ACTIV Financial Systems

Venture Round in 2010
ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc. specializes in providing real-time financial market data and solutions tailored for electronic trading strategies. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools including ActivWorkstation, which gives users access to market data, charting, and analytics; ActivFeed, designed for low-latency data distribution; and ActivMiddleware, a set of software components for building real-time distributed systems. Additionally, ACTIV provides managed solutions such as hosted delivery and co-location management, catering to exchanges, enterprises, and automated trading platforms. Its services include algorithmic trading support, market making, and data management, integrating content from exchanges with corporate actions and news. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, ACTIV Financial maintains data centers in major financial hubs including New York, Chicago, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Twilio

Series A in 2009
Twilio is a cloud-based communications platform that provides developers and businesses with the tools to create customized communication experiences. By offering a range of application programming interfaces (APIs), Twilio allows users to integrate voice, video, messaging, and authentication features directly into their applications. This enables enhanced customer engagement and more contextual communications. The company utilizes its global network of carrier relationships, known as the Super Network, to ensure efficient and cost-effective communication solutions. Additionally, Twilio supports startups in Europe through its dedicated fund, which encourages the use of its web service APIs to foster innovation in various business sectors.

Twilio

Seed Round in 2009
Twilio is a cloud-based communications platform that provides developers and businesses with the tools to create customized communication experiences. By offering a range of application programming interfaces (APIs), Twilio allows users to integrate voice, video, messaging, and authentication features directly into their applications. This enables enhanced customer engagement and more contextual communications. The company utilizes its global network of carrier relationships, known as the Super Network, to ensure efficient and cost-effective communication solutions. Additionally, Twilio supports startups in Europe through its dedicated fund, which encourages the use of its web service APIs to foster innovation in various business sectors.

Streambase Systems

Series C in 2007
StreamBase Systems provides software for rapidly building systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming data for instantaneous decision-making. StreamBase's Event Processing Platform combines a rapid application development environment, a low-latency high-throughput event server, and the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data. Investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies use StreamBase to power applications that increase revenue, lower costs, and reduce risk. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts

Streambase Systems

Series B in 2005
StreamBase Systems provides software for rapidly building systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming data for instantaneous decision-making. StreamBase's Event Processing Platform combines a rapid application development environment, a low-latency high-throughput event server, and the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data. Investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies use StreamBase to power applications that increase revenue, lower costs, and reduce risk. The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts

HyperRoll

Series C in 2004
HyperRoll is a provider of data warehouse performance acceleration software, specializing in its Data Performance Management Suite. This suite enhances load times, query times, and throughput for data warehouses, enabling organizations to respond swiftly to changes in data and metadata while reducing overall costs. HyperRoll's innovative software architecture represents a significant advancement in managing business data performance. In addition to its core software offerings, the company also provides solutions across various sectors, including consumer products, retail, finance, supply chain, and customer relationship management. Furthermore, HyperRoll offers advisory, consulting, education, and technical support services to assist clients in maximizing the benefits of their data management strategies.

Streambase Systems

Series A in 2003
StreamBase Systems provides software for rapidly building systems that analyze and act on real-time streaming data for instantaneous decision-making. StreamBase's Event Processing Platform combines a rapid application development environment, a low-latency high-throughput event server, and the broadest connectivity to real-time and historical data. Investment banks, hedge funds, and government agencies use StreamBase to power applications that increase revenue, lower costs, and reduce risk. The company is headquartered 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.
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