Investment firm · 29 mentions
Bessemer
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“Then after the MBA, at Harvard, then you decide to join Bessemer like you were pointing to.”
From Matt Salzberg“I concluded I had more to learn still, and that's when I joined Bessemer after that to build out my network of early-stage investors, learn the pattern recognition that venture capitalist have for knowing what the elements of success are in the early stages of a company, so ultimately, I could put in place something like that.”
From Matt Salzberg“At what point did you really decide, "Hey, this Bessemer thing is cool, but I need to start my own thing right now."?”
From Matt Salzberg“Actually, when I joined Bessemer, in my job interview at Bessemer, I told one of the senior partners that I was going to leave and try to start a company as soon as I humanly could, while at Bessemer.”
From Matt Salzberg“So, I spent a lot of my time at Bessemer getting ready to leave.”
From Matt Salzberg“Actually, an entrepreneur in residence at Bessemer named Jason Finger, who was the founder of Seamless and was hanging out at Bessemer at the time thinking about what he was going to do next.”
From Matt Salzberg“You gave your notice at Bessemer.”
From Matt Salzberg“Like I said, day one the idea that I had was different than Blue Apron when I first left Bessemer.”
From Matt Salzberg“When I left Bessemer, and I was working on this other idea which I call Petridish, the crowdfunding site for science and research, I think I raised like 700 to $800,000 right as I was doing that.”
From Matt Salzberg“Fidelity, Bessemer, Stripes Group, [Buss 25:08] Group just to name a few.”
From Matt Salzberg“Then Bessemer put in 5 million at our B.”
From Matt Salzberg“I knew Bessemer from Bessemer.”
From Matt Salzberg“Then Stripes Group, who I had met while I was at Bessemer led the C.”
From Matt Salzberg“The first real institutional capital was when Byron Deeter at Bessemer Ventures led our Series A.”
From Ara_Mahdessian Vahe_Kuzoyan“I'll speak to the one that I understand the best, which is the one that I'd say is practiced at Sutter Hill and companies like Matrix who were also investors from the beginning, and Bessemer.”
From Gene Berdichevsky“And great investors, too: Bessemer, Matrix, Sutter Hill Ventures, 8VC.”
From Gene Berdichevsky“And you got really great investors. You got Bessemer, Pitango, and a bunch of others.”
From Ido Susan“My experience with Bessemer – they were my investors in Intucell as well, and now in DRIVENETS, it's amazing.”
From Ido Susan“If you have a chance to get money from Bessemer, don't think twice.”
From Ido Susan“I know that also pitching Bessemer was not easy, and you were turned down quite a few times.”
From Uploaded - Dealmakers - Tomer Tagrin“Bessemer, by the way, is our largest investor, and Adam, the leading partner, which I consider him as a friend.”
From Uploaded - Dealmakers - Tomer Tagrin“And that contributed, as well, to some of those super sophisticated U.S. investors like Bessemer.”
From Uploaded - Dealmakers - Amin Shokrollahi“So, Steve Rodden Bessemer and Bessemer brought in a lot of my other later investors.”
From Uploaded - Dealmakers - Amin Shokrollahi“They hear Bessemer, that’s basically that’s it because these guys have done due diligence, and they do really good stuff.”
From Uploaded - Dealmakers - Amin Shokrollahi“Then, a few months later, Bessemer invested in our Series A.”
From Milind Mehere“Bessemer has a great blog post on Shopify, their investor in Shopify, and in that blog post, in their investment thesis, they said they thought Shopify would never be worth more than $700 million because they didn’t think that category was big enough.”
From Uploaded - Dealmakers - Oisin OConnor“Israel is the only place outside the U.S. now, with the exception of India and China that all the big firms have had a local presence, LightSpeed and Greylock and Bessemer, and Sequoia all have offices in Israel, and that just continued to put the right fuel into the fire.”
From Uploaded - Dealmakers - Rotem-Iram“So Bessemer backed us previously, and Mangrove also joined that round.”
From Uploaded - Dealmakers - Allon Bloch“It was actually Bessemer, in their old office building.”
From Bill Powers
