Bessemer Venture Partners

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Bessemer Venture Partners

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legal form Partnership
founding 1911
Seat United StatesUnited States Menlo Park , California
Branch Venture capital
Website www.bvp.com

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is a US private equity firm based in Menlo Park , California. According to its own information, it has assets under management of US $ 4.5 billion . In the PEI 300 ranking from Private Equity International , which is weighted according to the capital raised by private equity companies in the last five years , Bessemer Venture Partners was ranked 201 for 2018.

Bessemer Venture Partners is one of the oldest venture capital companies in the USA. It was founded as a family office by Henry Phipps in 1911 after he sold his stake in Carnegie Steel .

By 2019, BVP had invested in over 120 budding IPOs, including Periscope , Twitch , Skybox Imaging Pinterest , Shopify , Yelp , LinkedIn , Skype , LifeLock , Twilio , Blue Apron , Snapdeal , Fuze , PagerDuty , SendGrid , DocuSign , Wix.com , Box , Mindbody , and VeriSign .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b About , accessed January 31, 2017.
  2. PEI 300 on the website of Private Equity International , PEI Media, accessed on July 13, 2018 (English).
  3. ^ H. Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck: Portfolio Theory and Management . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-982969-9 , p. 655 (English).
  4. Bessemer Venture Partners - Exits | crunchbase .