Bessemer Venture Partners

Founded in 1911, Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Redwood City, California. With over $4 billion under management, the firm invests globally across various sectors including artificial intelligence & machine learning, biotech, cloud, consumer, cybersecurity, deep tech, developer, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces, and vertical software. Known for its long-standing support of entrepreneurs, Bessemer has backed companies such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, and Linkedin.

Eric Arnold

Vice President

Kent Bennett

Partner

Thomas Berger

Partner

Charles Birnbaum

Partner

Sam Bondy

Investor

Past deals in Restaurants

Dinii

Series B in 2024
Dinii is a software company specializing in digital ordering platforms for restaurants and local take-out shops. It offers online ordering services, allowing customers to select products, settle orders, receive printed invoices, and order via QR codes.

Klook

Series E in 2023
Klook is a global online platform facilitating the booking of travel experiences, services, and accommodations. It offers a wide array of activities such as tours, theme park tickets, cultural experiences, and adventure activities across numerous destinations worldwide. Additionally, Klook provides essential travel services like public transport passes, airport transfers, car rentals, SIM cards/eSIMs, and dining reservations to cater to various aspects of travel planning.

Restaurant365

Private Equity Round in 2023
Restaurant365 is a provider of restaurant enterprise management software tailored specifically for the food service industry. Its comprehensive, cloud-based platform integrates essential modules for accounting, inventory management, scheduling, payroll, and human resources. By streamlining these critical functions, Restaurant365 helps restaurant operators manage their daily operations more efficiently and profitably. The software is designed to alleviate the burdens often faced by restaurant management, enabling users to control food costs and optimize labor, ultimately enhancing overall operational performance in the digital age.

Toast

Series F in 2020
Toast is a cloud-based point-of-sale and restaurant-management platform for the food service and hospitality industry. It offers an end-to-end system that combines front-of-house and back-of-house functionality, including tableside ordering, online ordering, delivery tracking, labor management, and real-time reporting. The platform serves a broad range of establishments such as restaurants, bakeries, cafes, bars, nightclubs, and pizzerias, with a focus on mid-market operators primarily in the United States. Toast generates revenue from the sale of restaurant-grade hardware and recurring subscriptions and services tied to transaction volume. As of fiscal 2024, it served approximately 134,000 restaurant locations, and its typical customer generates slightly more than $1 million in annual revenue. The company is headquartered in Boston and maintains additional offices in Portland, Oregon; Omaha, Nebraska; and Dublin, Ireland.

Restaurant365

Series C in 2019
Restaurant365 is a provider of restaurant enterprise management software tailored specifically for the food service industry. Its comprehensive, cloud-based platform integrates essential modules for accounting, inventory management, scheduling, payroll, and human resources. By streamlining these critical functions, Restaurant365 helps restaurant operators manage their daily operations more efficiently and profitably. The software is designed to alleviate the burdens often faced by restaurant management, enabling users to control food costs and optimize labor, ultimately enhancing overall operational performance in the digital age.

Toast

Series E in 2019
Toast is a cloud-based point-of-sale and restaurant-management platform for the food service and hospitality industry. It offers an end-to-end system that combines front-of-house and back-of-house functionality, including tableside ordering, online ordering, delivery tracking, labor management, and real-time reporting. The platform serves a broad range of establishments such as restaurants, bakeries, cafes, bars, nightclubs, and pizzerias, with a focus on mid-market operators primarily in the United States. Toast generates revenue from the sale of restaurant-grade hardware and recurring subscriptions and services tied to transaction volume. As of fiscal 2024, it served approximately 134,000 restaurant locations, and its typical customer generates slightly more than $1 million in annual revenue. The company is headquartered in Boston and maintains additional offices in Portland, Oregon; Omaha, Nebraska; and Dublin, Ireland.

Restaurant365

Venture Round in 2018
Restaurant365 is a provider of restaurant enterprise management software tailored specifically for the food service industry. Its comprehensive, cloud-based platform integrates essential modules for accounting, inventory management, scheduling, payroll, and human resources. By streamlining these critical functions, Restaurant365 helps restaurant operators manage their daily operations more efficiently and profitably. The software is designed to alleviate the burdens often faced by restaurant management, enabling users to control food costs and optimize labor, ultimately enhancing overall operational performance in the digital age.

Karma

Series A in 2018
Karma develops an application that helps restaurants, grocers and cafés reduce their food waste by selling their surplus to consumers at reduced prices. Its application serves as a sales channel via which merchants offer take away food items to registered users. Elsa Bernadotte, Mattis Larsson, Hjalmar Nordegren, Ludvig Berling, and Steven van Wel founded Karma on September 1, 2015. Its headquarters is in Stockholm in Sweden.

Restaurant365

Venture Round in 2018
Restaurant365 is a provider of restaurant enterprise management software tailored specifically for the food service industry. Its comprehensive, cloud-based platform integrates essential modules for accounting, inventory management, scheduling, payroll, and human resources. By streamlining these critical functions, Restaurant365 helps restaurant operators manage their daily operations more efficiently and profitably. The software is designed to alleviate the burdens often faced by restaurant management, enabling users to control food costs and optimize labor, ultimately enhancing overall operational performance in the digital age.

MealPal

Series B in 2017
MealPal, Inc. is a subscription-based platform that offers lunch plans for weekdays, allowing members to choose and reserve meals from a diverse network of participating restaurants and chefs. Founded in 2015 and based in Miami, Florida, the company provides its services through a mobile application, facilitating user access to hundreds of meal options for a flat monthly fee. This service not only enables users to discover new dining options and save money but also helps restaurants increase revenue during peak hours. MealPal has successfully facilitated over 10 million lunch reservations and operates in major cities including Washington, D.C., San Francisco, New York, Miami, Boston, London, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Originally named MealPass, Inc., the company rebranded to MealPal, Inc. in September 2016.

Toast

Series C in 2017
Toast is a cloud-based point-of-sale and restaurant-management platform for the food service and hospitality industry. It offers an end-to-end system that combines front-of-house and back-of-house functionality, including tableside ordering, online ordering, delivery tracking, labor management, and real-time reporting. The platform serves a broad range of establishments such as restaurants, bakeries, cafes, bars, nightclubs, and pizzerias, with a focus on mid-market operators primarily in the United States. Toast generates revenue from the sale of restaurant-grade hardware and recurring subscriptions and services tied to transaction volume. As of fiscal 2024, it served approximately 134,000 restaurant locations, and its typical customer generates slightly more than $1 million in annual revenue. The company is headquartered in Boston and maintains additional offices in Portland, Oregon; Omaha, Nebraska; and Dublin, Ireland.

Swiggy

Series E in 2017
Swiggy is a consumer-focused technology company offering an integrated app for food ordering, grocery shopping, restaurant reservations, and event bookings. It facilitates doorstep delivery of these items via its network of on-demand delivery partners.

MealPal

Series A in 2017
MealPal, Inc. is a subscription-based platform that offers lunch plans for weekdays, allowing members to choose and reserve meals from a diverse network of participating restaurants and chefs. Founded in 2015 and based in Miami, Florida, the company provides its services through a mobile application, facilitating user access to hundreds of meal options for a flat monthly fee. This service not only enables users to discover new dining options and save money but also helps restaurants increase revenue during peak hours. MealPal has successfully facilitated over 10 million lunch reservations and operates in major cities including Washington, D.C., San Francisco, New York, Miami, Boston, London, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Originally named MealPass, Inc., the company rebranded to MealPal, Inc. in September 2016.

Swiggy

Series D in 2016
Swiggy is a consumer-focused technology company offering an integrated app for food ordering, grocery shopping, restaurant reservations, and event bookings. It facilitates doorstep delivery of these items via its network of on-demand delivery partners.

Toast

Series B in 2016
Toast is a cloud-based point-of-sale and restaurant-management platform for the food service and hospitality industry. It offers an end-to-end system that combines front-of-house and back-of-house functionality, including tableside ordering, online ordering, delivery tracking, labor management, and real-time reporting. The platform serves a broad range of establishments such as restaurants, bakeries, cafes, bars, nightclubs, and pizzerias, with a focus on mid-market operators primarily in the United States. Toast generates revenue from the sale of restaurant-grade hardware and recurring subscriptions and services tied to transaction volume. As of fiscal 2024, it served approximately 134,000 restaurant locations, and its typical customer generates slightly more than $1 million in annual revenue. The company is headquartered in Boston and maintains additional offices in Portland, Oregon; Omaha, Nebraska; and Dublin, Ireland.

RestaurantTrade

Series C in 2002
RestaurantTrade the leading provider of Web-based software for the hospitality industry.
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