By: Jeremy Levine and Talia Goldberg — By: Jeremy Levine and Talia Goldberg Years ago, everyone watched television shows at the same time — when they aired, sometimes huddled around a living room screen. Think about TV’s greatest moments: the Super Bowl, the Beatles debut on Ed Sullivan, a flubbed Best Picture Oscars winner announcement and iconic…

By: Alex Ferrara — By: Alex Ferrara I want to extend a huge congratulations to the incredible NewVoiceMedia team, which announced on November 1st, that it has been acquired by Vonage. We first partnered with NewVoiceMedia back in 2013. At the time, we’d already had the good fortune of working with several great SaaS…

Bessemer Cloud Team Pitch Hours — Before the SaaStr Holiday Party on November 15th, the Bessemer Cloud Team is hosting Pitch Hours in San Francisco for early stage SaaS companies over a two-day period on November 15th and 16th. We want to meet you individually, hear what you’re building and geek out on all things cloud. …

Today, we’re announcing a new, $1.85 billion fund: BVP X. — Today, we’re announcing a new, $1.85 billion fund: BVP X. Ten is a milestone kind of number and launching our tenth fund inspired moments of reflection derived from our experiences working alongside entrepreneurs and companies we’ve advised over the last half-century. It’s no secret that many in the Valley are…

By: Mike Droesch and Jenny Gao — By: Mike Droesch and Jenny Gao Bessemer was proud to partner with the CNCF to host an evening devoted to discussion around exciting new open source infrastructure projects and best practices for enterprises making the cloud-native transformation. Given the high concentration of financial services firms in NYC, we were fortunate…

Looking Back at our 2016 Internal Memo on Glint — Looking Back at our 2016 Internal Memo on Glint We first met Jim Barnett and Goutham Kurra, Glint’s co-founders, nearly two years ago, and were inspired by their vision to make people happier and more successful at work. …

By: Charles Birnbaum and Ben Mathews — By: Charles Birnbaum and Ben Mathews In 2014, the Bessemer team met with Dave Vasen at the office of his recently launched startup, KidCasa. When we arrived, we realized the office was actually his apartment building. Dave was in the earliest days of bootstrapping his company and we got an…

By: David Cowan and Tess Hatch — By: David Cowan and Tess Hatch For 50 years, space innovation meant scaling Apollo-era technologies into ever larger, more durable satellites parked above their terrestrial clients in geosynchronous orbit. Exotic space-ready parts, militarized defenses and layered redundancies ballooned into multi-billion-dollar systems designed to last 40 years or more beyond their…

At Bessemer Venture Partners we are always looking for new ways to help our companies work better, smarter and faster. Sometimes these… — At Bessemer Venture Partners we are always looking for new ways to help our companies work better, smarter and faster. Sometimes these solutions are revolutionary. Sometimes they are simply more efficient. Recently one of our portfolio companies showed us a better way to track employee equity data. Equity data is…