- Bessemer Venture Partners
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company_name = Bessemer Venture Partners
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company_type =Limited liability company
foundation = 1911
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industry =Venture Capital
products =Investments
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homepage = [http://www.bvp.com/ www.bvp.com]
num_employees =Bessemer Venture Partners is a private
venture capital firm with offices inSilicon Valley ,New York ,Massachusetts ,Israel ,China , andIndia .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 investHenry Phipps 's share of the proceeds from the sale ofCarnegie Steel . Since then, Bessemer Venture Partners has operated as a standalone partnership withBessemer Securities Corporation as its primary limited partner.Since its inception, BVP has provided capital to such companies as
Ciena Corporation ,Flarion ,Parametric Technology Corporation ,Skype ,Staples Inc. ,VeriSign andVERITAS Software . Of this group, over 100 Bessemer companies have gone public, includingAmerican Superconductor ,Ciena Corporation ,Gartner ,Ingersoll Rand ,International Paper ,Maxim Integrated Products ,Parametric , Perseptive Biosystems,Staples, Inc. ,VeriSign ,Veritas Software , andW. R. Grace and Company .Other notes
Bessemer Venture Partners is widely known in the venture capital industry for the publication of its " [http://www.bvp.com/port/anti.asp anti-portfolio] ," a light-hearted retrospective by the firm's partners of missed investment opportunities. The "anti-portfolio" describes how and why the firm's investment professionals passed on the earliest (and often most profitable) Series A rounds of now successful companies including
Apple, Inc. ,Ebay ,FedEx ,Google andIntel .External links
* [http://www.bvp.com/ Bessemer Venture Partners] (official website0
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