About Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. Over 100 Bessemer companies have gone public, including American Superconductor, Ciena, Gartner Group, Ingersoll Rand, International Paper, Maxim, Parametric, Perseptive Biosystems, Staples, VeriSign, Veritas, and W.R. Grace.

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Bessemer Venture Partners is the longest-standing venture capital practice in the United States. Between 1911 and 1975, the team operated as part of Bessemer Securities Corporation, established in 1911 to invest Henry Phipps's share of the proceeds from the sale of Carnegie Steel. Since then, Bessemer Venture Partners has operated as a standalone partnership with Bessemer Securities Corporation as its primary limited partner.

Bessemer Venture Partners is widely known for its anti-portfolio, a light-hearted retrospective by the firm's partners describing why they mistakenly passed on the Series A rounds of now successful companies."

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  2. LinkedIn Corporation: LinkedIn Raises $22.7 Million from Goldman ...

    tradingmarkets.com (Oct 23 2008) Explore Article

    ... by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, the European Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, ... LinkedIn Corporation: LinkedIn Raises $22.7 Million from Goldman Sachs, The McGraw-Hill Compan... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bessemer Venture Partners   SAP Ventures   David Cowan

  3. MHT and ACG name top Tech Dealmakers for 2007

    masshightech.com (Jul 25 2008) Acquisition , Funding Explore Article

    ...eighton, co-founder, Akamai. Deal advisers - Legal: Latham & Watkins LLP. Financial: Alta Partners; Bessemer Venture Partners; BlueRun Ventures; Granite Global Ventures; Leapfrog Ventures; Morgenthaler; Reed Elsevier Ventures... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Charles River Ventures   Global   Frito-Lay

  4. New funding values LinkedIn at $1 Bn

    SiliconIndia (Jun 19 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    ...led the investment round, and LinkedIn's existing investors, venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Greylock Partners also joined, the company said. According to Jeffrey Glass, Venture Partner at... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Wipro   Reliance ADAG   Azim Premji

  5. LinkedIn, Valued At $1B In The Latest Round, Claims 1 Million Users In India

    VCCircle (Jun 18 2008) Explore Article

    ...Capital Ventures, the VC arm of Bain Capital, and joined by the existing investors Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Greylock Partners. The five year old company has so far raised more than $80 million in multipl... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bessemer Venture Partners   Bain Capital   Economic Times

  6. New funding values LinkedIn at $1 bn

    livemint.com (Jun 18 2008) Social Networking , Acquisition Explore Article

    ...d the investment round, and LinkedIn’s existing investors, venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Greylock Partners also put in money, the company said. Jeffrey Glass, Venture Partner at Bain C... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bessemer Venture Partners   News Corp   Greylock Partners

  7. Buzz Links: Takei To Wed, ‘Family Guy’ Invades Madison Ave.

    blogs.wsj.com (Jun 18 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    Four venture capital firms–Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners– are investing $53 million into the ... Buzz Links: Takei To Wed, ‘Family Guy’ Invades Madiso... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   DreamWorks Animation   New York Times   Paramount Pictures

  8. New funding values LinkedIn at $1 billion

    washingtonpost.com (Jun 17 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    ...led the investment round, and LinkedIn's existing investors, venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Greylock Partners also put in money, the company said. Jeffrey Glass, Venture Partner at Bain C... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bessemer Venture Partners   Eric Auchard   News Corp

  9. New funding values LinkedIn at $1 billion

    news.yahoo.com (Jun 17 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    ...led the investment round, and LinkedIn's existing investors, venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Greylock Partners also put in money, the company said. Jeffrey Glass, Venture Partner at , said... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   News Corp   Bessemer Venture Partners

  10. New funding values LinkedIn at $1 billion

    Guardian Unlimited home (Jun 17 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    ...led the investment round, and LinkedIn's existing investors, venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Greylock Partners also put in money, the company said. Jeffrey Glass, Venture Partner at Bain C... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bessemer Venture Partners   Microsoft   Sequoia Capital

  11. LinkedIn Valued at $1 Billion

    PC World (Jun 17 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    ...led the investment round, and LinkedIn's existing investors, venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Greylock Partners also put in money, the company said. Jeffrey Glass, Venture Partner at Bain C... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   News Corp   Bain Capital Ventures   Bessemer Venture Partners

  12. Vc, Pe firms accelerate raising funds this year

    livemint.com (May 19 2008) Explore Article

    ...ndia corpus, are now earmarking a specific portion of their global pool of capital for this market. Bessemer Venture Partners was among the first to adopt this model for India, when it set aside $350 million for investments h... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Lightspeed Venture Partners   Draper Fisher Jurvetson   Bessemer Venture Partners

  13. Craigslist Competitor OLX Raises $13.5M

    TechCrunch (Apr 11 2008) Social Networking , Funding Explore Article

    ...ever heard of, having secured an additional $13.5M in Series B funding today from General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund, and DN Capital. The round [...] Craigslist Competitor OLX Raises $13.5M Mark Hendri... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bessemer Venture Partners   Fabrice Grinda

  14. Sramana’s Challenge: Kyunki ‘SaaS’ Bhi Kabhi…

    VentureWoods (Mar 7 2008) Explore Article

    ...ive assessment of the consolidated and de-productized information security market by David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners. David has hit the bullseye here, beautifully explaining the current and underlying bottlenecks ail... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Wipro   Google   Cisco

  15. Budget Shivers: VC firms jittery over tax norms

    The Economic Times (Feb 28 2008) Explore Article

    ...Carlyle, General Atlantic Mauritius, WestBridge Ventures, Intel Capital, Citigroup Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Blackstone, NEA-IndoUS and Oak India. Adds Canaan Partners' Alok Mittal:... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bessemer Venture Partners   Canaan Partners   Blackstone

  16. VC funds jittery on Budget-eve

    The Economic Times (Feb 27 2008) Explore Article

    ...Carlyle, General Atlantic Mauritius, WestBridge Ventures, Intel Capital, Citigroup Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Blackstone, NEA-IndoUS and Oak India. India has treaties with almost 70 ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bessemer Venture Partners   Canaan Partners   Blackstone

  17. VC Roundup:Sequoia To Invest $500-$600 Mln; Bessemer Appoints Garg As MD; Trident Eyes India

    contentSutra.com (Oct 22 2007) Explore Article

    ...re capital business to grow further from its current $15 billion to $20 billion size. Separately, Bessemer Venture Partners has appointed Devesh Garg managing director for India, to be based in Mumbai. Garg has been with Be... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bessemer Venture Partners   Ravi Shankar   Sequoia Capital

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