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.
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 Risk Management
Astrix Security
Series B in 2024
Astrix Security specializes in protecting non-human identities such as API keys, service accounts, and access tokens, addressing a critical aspect of identity security for organizations. The company's cloud-based platform provides comprehensive visibility into these identities, enabling the automatic identification and mitigation of excessive or harmful access that can lead to supply chain threats and data breaches. By controlling the lifecycle of non-human identities, Astrix offers an agentless solution that enhances risk assessment and facilitates automated remediation. This allows organizations to safely harness the benefits of app-to-app integration and automation while minimizing the risk of service supply chain attacks.
Torq
Series C in 2024
Torq offers a no-code automation platform tailored for security and operations teams, enabling them to efficiently respond to threats and manage risks. The platform allows frontline security professionals to create automated workflows that streamline threat detection and remediation, minimizing manual intervention. By facilitating seamless integration with existing tools, Torq provides a flexible solution that can scale with an organization's evolving needs. This approach enhances communication and collaboration among various systems, ensuring that security teams can deliver improved protection and response capabilities.
Eye Security
Series B in 2024
Eye Security is a cybersecurity and insurtech startup focused on providing comprehensive protection for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) against digital threats. The company offers an affordable all-in-one security solution that includes 24/7 monitoring, incident response strategies, and cyber insurance. By combining expert knowledge with practical services, Eye Security aims to make high-quality cybersecurity accessible to all businesses, ensuring that entrepreneurs are protected from industry-specific threats. The company’s mission is to enhance the security posture of SMEs through effective measures and support, thereby fostering a safer digital environment for organizations of all sizes.
Torq
Series B in 2024
Torq offers a no-code automation platform tailored for security and operations teams, enabling them to efficiently respond to threats and manage risks. The platform allows frontline security professionals to create automated workflows that streamline threat detection and remediation, minimizing manual intervention. By facilitating seamless integration with existing tools, Torq provides a flexible solution that can scale with an organization's evolving needs. This approach enhances communication and collaboration among various systems, ensuring that security teams can deliver improved protection and response capabilities.
Legit Security
Series B in 2023
Legit Security is a provider of enterprise-grade cybersecurity software solutions focused on helping organizations develop secure software efficiently. The company offers an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that secures applications during the development phase, ensuring they are designed to be vulnerability-free. Legit's platform delivers an automated overview of application risks, encompassing code, cloud, and supply chain vulnerabilities, and integrates data from various security tools. This enables teams to prioritize and address critical issues effectively, facilitating the creation of a "secure software factory" that prevents future defects. Additionally, Legit aids organizations in maintaining compliance with various frameworks requiring secure development practices, such as SSDF, FedRamp, DORA, CRA, and PCI/DSS, allowing businesses to innovate rapidly while ensuring software security.
Astrix Security
Series A in 2023
Astrix Security specializes in protecting non-human identities such as API keys, service accounts, and access tokens, addressing a critical aspect of identity security for organizations. The company's cloud-based platform provides comprehensive visibility into these identities, enabling the automatic identification and mitigation of excessive or harmful access that can lead to supply chain threats and data breaches. By controlling the lifecycle of non-human identities, Astrix offers an agentless solution that enhances risk assessment and facilitates automated remediation. This allows organizations to safely harness the benefits of app-to-app integration and automation while minimizing the risk of service supply chain attacks.
Eye Security
Series A in 2022
Eye Security is a cybersecurity and insurtech startup focused on providing comprehensive protection for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) against digital threats. The company offers an affordable all-in-one security solution that includes 24/7 monitoring, incident response strategies, and cyber insurance. By combining expert knowledge with practical services, Eye Security aims to make high-quality cybersecurity accessible to all businesses, ensuring that entrepreneurs are protected from industry-specific threats. The company’s mission is to enhance the security posture of SMEs through effective measures and support, thereby fostering a safer digital environment for organizations of all sizes.
Manta
Series B in 2022
Manta is the world-class automated approach to visualize, optimize, and modernize how data moves through your organization through code-level lineage. By automatically scanning your data environment with the power of 50+ out-of-the-box scanners, Manta builds a powerful map of all data pipelines to drive efficiency and productivity.
Astrix Security
Seed Round in 2022
Astrix Security specializes in protecting non-human identities such as API keys, service accounts, and access tokens, addressing a critical aspect of identity security for organizations. The company's cloud-based platform provides comprehensive visibility into these identities, enabling the automatic identification and mitigation of excessive or harmful access that can lead to supply chain threats and data breaches. By controlling the lifecycle of non-human identities, Astrix offers an agentless solution that enhances risk assessment and facilitates automated remediation. This allows organizations to safely harness the benefits of app-to-app integration and automation while minimizing the risk of service supply chain attacks.
Legit Security
Series A in 2022
Legit Security is a provider of enterprise-grade cybersecurity software solutions focused on helping organizations develop secure software efficiently. The company offers an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that secures applications during the development phase, ensuring they are designed to be vulnerability-free. Legit's platform delivers an automated overview of application risks, encompassing code, cloud, and supply chain vulnerabilities, and integrates data from various security tools. This enables teams to prioritize and address critical issues effectively, facilitating the creation of a "secure software factory" that prevents future defects. Additionally, Legit aids organizations in maintaining compliance with various frameworks requiring secure development practices, such as SSDF, FedRamp, DORA, CRA, and PCI/DSS, allowing businesses to innovate rapidly while ensuring software security.
Torq
Series B in 2021
Torq offers a no-code automation platform tailored for security and operations teams, enabling them to efficiently respond to threats and manage risks. The platform allows frontline security professionals to create automated workflows that streamline threat detection and remediation, minimizing manual intervention. By facilitating seamless integration with existing tools, Torq provides a flexible solution that can scale with an organization's evolving needs. This approach enhances communication and collaboration among various systems, ensuring that security teams can deliver improved protection and response capabilities.
Torq
Series A in 2021
Torq offers a no-code automation platform tailored for security and operations teams, enabling them to efficiently respond to threats and manage risks. The platform allows frontline security professionals to create automated workflows that streamline threat detection and remediation, minimizing manual intervention. By facilitating seamless integration with existing tools, Torq provides a flexible solution that can scale with an organization's evolving needs. This approach enhances communication and collaboration among various systems, ensuring that security teams can deliver improved protection and response capabilities.
Manta
Series A in 2020
Manta is the world-class automated approach to visualize, optimize, and modernize how data moves through your organization through code-level lineage. By automatically scanning your data environment with the power of 50+ out-of-the-box scanners, Manta builds a powerful map of all data pipelines to drive efficiency and productivity.
Torq
Venture Round in 2020
Torq offers a no-code automation platform tailored for security and operations teams, enabling them to efficiently respond to threats and manage risks. The platform allows frontline security professionals to create automated workflows that streamline threat detection and remediation, minimizing manual intervention. By facilitating seamless integration with existing tools, Torq provides a flexible solution that can scale with an organization's evolving needs. This approach enhances communication and collaboration among various systems, ensuring that security teams can deliver improved protection and response capabilities.
Torq
Seed Round in 2020
Torq offers a no-code automation platform tailored for security and operations teams, enabling them to efficiently respond to threats and manage risks. The platform allows frontline security professionals to create automated workflows that streamline threat detection and remediation, minimizing manual intervention. By facilitating seamless integration with existing tools, Torq provides a flexible solution that can scale with an organization's evolving needs. This approach enhances communication and collaboration among various systems, ensuring that security teams can deliver improved protection and response capabilities.
CyberGRX
Series D in 2019
CyberGRX provides the most comprehensive third-party cyber risk management platform to cost-effectively identify, assess, mitigate and monitor an enterprise’s risk exposure across its entire partner ecosystem. Through automation and advanced analytics, the CyberGRX solution enables enterprises to collaboratively mitigate threats presented from their increasing interdependency on vendors, partners and customers. CyberGRX is based in Denver, CO. For more information, visit www.cybergrx.com or follow @CyberGRX on Twitter.
CyberGRX
Venture Round in 2019
CyberGRX provides the most comprehensive third-party cyber risk management platform to cost-effectively identify, assess, mitigate and monitor an enterprise’s risk exposure across its entire partner ecosystem. Through automation and advanced analytics, the CyberGRX solution enables enterprises to collaboratively mitigate threats presented from their increasing interdependency on vendors, partners and customers. CyberGRX is based in Denver, CO. For more information, visit www.cybergrx.com or follow @CyberGRX on Twitter.
Kenna Security
Series D in 2019
Kenna Security, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in vulnerability management and risk intelligence solutions. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Chicago, Kenna offers a platform that helps organizations prioritize vulnerabilities, assess risks, and automate their analysis. This platform leverages Cyber Risk Context Technology to measure and predict cyber risks, enabling security teams to focus on the most critical issues. Kenna serves a diverse range of sectors, including media, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, and transportation, both in the United States and internationally. With a customer base that includes many Fortune 100 companies, Kenna's solutions facilitate cross-functional collaboration to proactively address cyber threats and enhance overall security efficacy.
CyberGRX
Series C in 2018
CyberGRX provides the most comprehensive third-party cyber risk management platform to cost-effectively identify, assess, mitigate and monitor an enterprise’s risk exposure across its entire partner ecosystem. Through automation and advanced analytics, the CyberGRX solution enables enterprises to collaboratively mitigate threats presented from their increasing interdependency on vendors, partners and customers. CyberGRX is based in Denver, CO. For more information, visit www.cybergrx.com or follow @CyberGRX on Twitter.
Kenna Security
Series C in 2018
Kenna Security, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in vulnerability management and risk intelligence solutions. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Chicago, Kenna offers a platform that helps organizations prioritize vulnerabilities, assess risks, and automate their analysis. This platform leverages Cyber Risk Context Technology to measure and predict cyber risks, enabling security teams to focus on the most critical issues. Kenna serves a diverse range of sectors, including media, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, and transportation, both in the United States and internationally. With a customer base that includes many Fortune 100 companies, Kenna's solutions facilitate cross-functional collaboration to proactively address cyber threats and enhance overall security efficacy.
Collective Medical
Series A in 2017
Collective Medical operates a collaborative care management platform designed to enhance patient outcomes by addressing communication gaps in healthcare. Based in Salt Lake City, the company connects a nationwide network that includes every national health plan, hundreds of hospitals, and tens of thousands of healthcare providers. Its system-agnostic platform leverages real-time data, risk analytics, and shared care guidelines to identify at-risk and complex patients. By facilitating actionable collaboration among care teams, Collective Medical aims to reduce emergency department visits and avoidable readmissions for high-risk patients. The platform improves coordination across diverse care teams, streamlines transitions of care, and supports better decision-making, ultimately ensuring patients receive appropriate care in the right setting.
Cofense
Series C in 2016
Cofense specializes in phishing detection and response management software, catering to various sectors, including defense, energy, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing. The company is known for its PhishMe® simulation training, which enhances enterprise-level security awareness among employees. Cofense's Phishing Detection and Response (PDR) platform utilizes a global network of businesses, with over 35 million trained employees actively reporting potential phishing threats. This unique reporting system processes and catalogs thousands of threats daily that often evade traditional email gateway technologies, subsequently eliminating these threats from customers' inboxes. Additionally, Cofense provides services such as penetration testing, social engineering, incident response, and data forensics, enabling organizations to better understand user security behavior, improve their security posture, and reduce the risk of cyber threats.
Kroll Bond Rating Agency
Series C in 2013
Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc. is a credit rating agency that serves the investment community by providing research solutions and credit ratings. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, the agency offers a range of products, including credit profile reports and subscription-based rating services. These services are utilized by finance, risk, and treasury professionals to evaluate the creditworthiness and financial stability of various institutions. Kroll Bond Rating Agency operates across multiple sectors, including structured finance, asset-backed securities, public finance, and corporate finance, delivering timely and transparent assessments of financial performance. In addition to its New York headquarters, the agency has offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Dublin, Ireland.
Kroll Bond Rating Agency
Series B in 2012
Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc. is a credit rating agency that serves the investment community by providing research solutions and credit ratings. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, the agency offers a range of products, including credit profile reports and subscription-based rating services. These services are utilized by finance, risk, and treasury professionals to evaluate the creditworthiness and financial stability of various institutions. Kroll Bond Rating Agency operates across multiple sectors, including structured finance, asset-backed securities, public finance, and corporate finance, delivering timely and transparent assessments of financial performance. In addition to its New York headquarters, the agency has offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Dublin, Ireland.
Elemental Cyber Security
Series C in 2005
Elemental Cyber Security, Inc. specializes in providing cyber security solutions aimed at protecting digital assets for enterprises. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company offers the Elemental Security Platform, which automates cyber security policies, compliance, and risk management. This platform enables organizations to align their business objectives with specific policies tailored for different users and systems within their networks. In addition to its software solutions, Elemental Cyber Security provides maintenance and support services that include product updates, online assistance, training, and evaluations of existing tools to enhance operational efficiency. The company's offerings are designed to streamline security operations, facilitate regulatory compliance, and deliver timely security intelligence, ultimately reducing costs associated with audits and compliance programs.
Elemental Cyber Security
Series B in 2004
Elemental Cyber Security, Inc. specializes in providing cyber security solutions aimed at protecting digital assets for enterprises. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company offers the Elemental Security Platform, which automates cyber security policies, compliance, and risk management. This platform enables organizations to align their business objectives with specific policies tailored for different users and systems within their networks. In addition to its software solutions, Elemental Cyber Security provides maintenance and support services that include product updates, online assistance, training, and evaluations of existing tools to enhance operational efficiency. The company's offerings are designed to streamline security operations, facilitate regulatory compliance, and deliver timely security intelligence, ultimately reducing costs associated with audits and compliance programs.
Finjan Holdings
Venture Round in 2004
Finjan Holdings is a cybersecurity company that specializes in intellectual property licensing and enforcement, both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in East Palo Alto, California, the company possesses a portfolio of patents that focus on software and hardware technologies designed to detect and mitigate malicious code. These patents are integral to advanced cybersecurity measures, including behavior-based detection of malware, which identifies potential threats based on patterns rather than known signatures. Finjan's technologies provide real-time protection against various online threats, such as identity theft, spyware, and phishing attacks. The company also invests in developing mobile security applications and other cybersecurity technologies. While it previously sold its hardware and software divisions, Finjan retains its core patents, which underpin next-generation security products capable of countering sophisticated cyber threats. The company has received recognition from major industry analysts and publications for its innovative solutions, which support businesses in safely implementing their web strategies.
Elemental Cyber Security
Series A in 2003
Elemental Cyber Security, Inc. specializes in providing cyber security solutions aimed at protecting digital assets for enterprises. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company offers the Elemental Security Platform, which automates cyber security policies, compliance, and risk management. This platform enables organizations to align their business objectives with specific policies tailored for different users and systems within their networks. In addition to its software solutions, Elemental Cyber Security provides maintenance and support services that include product updates, online assistance, training, and evaluations of existing tools to enhance operational efficiency. The company's offerings are designed to streamline security operations, facilitate regulatory compliance, and deliver timely security intelligence, ultimately reducing costs associated with audits and compliance programs.
Qualys
Venture Round in 2000
Qualys is a cloud security and compliance solutions provider that assists businesses in identifying and managing security risks and compliance requirements. Founded in 1999 and based in California, the company serves over 10,000 customers globally, including a significant number of small and medium-sized enterprises. The Qualys Cloud Platform offers an integrated suite of applications that simplify security operations and reduce compliance costs by delivering critical security intelligence on demand. It automates various processes, including auditing, compliance, and protection for IT systems and web applications. Qualys performs more than 1 billion IP scans and audits annually, resulting in over 400 billion security events. The company has established strategic partnerships with numerous managed service providers and consulting organizations, enhancing its service offerings. Qualys solutions encompass continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, policy compliance, web application scanning, and more, providing organizations with a comprehensive view of their security and compliance landscape while lowering their total cost of ownership.
CapitalThinking
Series B in 2000
CapitalThinking is a mortgage financial services company based in New York, founded in 1999. It specializes in providing fixed and flexible payment solutions to its customers through an online platform that facilitates applications and quotations. In addition to mortgage services, CapitalThinking offers application software tailored for the financial services industry, which includes compliance and risk management features designed for enterprise-wide credit and operational risk management. The company was acquired by CapitalStream in January 2004, further expanding its capabilities in the financial sector.
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