Jeffrey C. Smith

Bessemer Venture Partners LP seeks investment opportunities in companies primarily located in the US. The fund focuses on companies with a strong business model, experienced management teams and growth potential. It targets companies operating across a broad range of sectors such as healthcare, information systems, telecommunications, and retailing. It provides financing for seed, early and later stage capital requirements.

Tumbleweed Communications Corp. provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. The firm's products include secure transactions with identity validation, email, and file transfer. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Roost provides online real estate services. The company was founded by Jonathan Gillon, Alex Chang and Alex Lange in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

LiveIntent, Inc. provides email advertising and trading services. It offers branding, direct response, retargeting, mobile application and attribution, email Ad serving, direct selling email inventory, and real time email offer optimization solutions. The company was founded by Matt Keiser and David H. Hendricks in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Virtru Corp. develops software solutions. It specializes in digital privacy, digital security, Email encryption and HIPAA compliant email. The company was founded by John M. Ackerly and William Ackerly in 2012 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Granite Ventures LLC (Granite Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 1992 by Jackie Berterretche, Sam D. Kingsland and Chris B. Hollenbeck. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ancestry.com, Inc. provides online network services for connecting families. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

Wal-Mart.com USA LLC owns and operates superstores. Its product range includes contact lenses, electronics, apparel, furniture, pet products, pharmaceuticals, tires, toys, and jewelry. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Bentonville, AR.

Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Selby Venture Partners (Selby Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Bob C. Marshall. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

BT Counterpane, Inc. provides internet managed security monitoring services. Its services include vulnerability scanning, security assessment, maintenance, training, support, consulting, e-mail scanning, network device management and denial of service attack prevention. The company was founded by Schneier Bruce and Thomas E. Rowley in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Shasta Ventures Management LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in the year 2004 by Ravi Mohan, Tod H. Francis and Rob T. Coneybeer. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park.

Vimo, Inc. provides online comparison services for health insurance and benefit plans. Its services include implementation and launch, sales and marketing, customer support and account management, and consumer service center. It offers administration modules and advanced billing and payment. The company was founded by Chini Krishnan and Shankar Srinivasan in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Doostang, Inc. provides online employment services. Its platform offers jobs in the areas of accounting, insurance, finance, consulting, marketing, PR, advertising, technology, investment banking advisory, and business strategic management. The company was founded by Mareza Larizadeh and Pavel Krapivin in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Zoosk, Inc. engages in the provision of online social dating network services. It specializes in behavioral matchmaking technology. The company was founded by Shayan Ghazizadeh Zadeh and Alex Mehr in 2007 and is headquartered in Lehi, UT.

The Nueva School operates as an independent school serving gifted students and emphasizing integrated studies, arts, and social-emotional learning. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Hillsborough, CA.

CloudPassage, Inc. provides cloud server security solutions. It offers server security products purpose-built for dynamic public and hybrid cloud hosting environments. Virtual servers are cloned, migrated, and cloud-bursted. The company was founded by Carson Sweet, Vitaliy Geraymovych and Talli Somekh in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Lightbend, Inc. provides reactive application development platform for building distributed applications. It offers reactive platform for development such as Akka, play framework, Lagom framework, Apache Spark, and Scala and Java. The firm also offers reactive platform for production such as service orchestration, application monitoring, application resilience, and enhanced availability. The company was founded by Martin Odersky, Jonas Bonér, and Paul Phillips in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Apteligent, Inc. provides mobile services. The firm offers app performance, mAPM, crash reporting, culprit SDKs, app benchmarks, breadcrumbs, and user behavior and business insight products. The company was founded by Andrew Levy, Robert Kwok and Jeeyun Kim in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

iSIGHT Security LLC provides cyber threat intelligence services. The company was founded by Jonathan Couch and John P. Watters in 2007 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Poppin, Inc. markets workstyle products online. Its products include office stationary such as notebooks, writing materials, desk accessories, organizers, furniture, and decors. The company was founded by Randy A. Nicolau, Christopher Burch, Michael Chauliac and Eric Kenneth Seiff in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Auth0, Inc. engages in the provision of universal authentication and authorization platform for web, mobile, and legacy applications. It serves the financial, healthcare, media, retail, and real estate industries. The company was founded by Matias Woloski and Eugenio Pace in 2013 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Rigetti & Co., Inc. develops and delivers integrated quantum and classical computing capabilities. The firm's flagship product, Quantum Cloud Services provides dedicated access to quantum hardware and a development environment tailored for practical applications. The company was founded by Chad T. Rigetti in 2013 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Glint, Inc. engages in the provision of a real-time employee engagement platform for organizations. It offers pulses, dashboard and analytics products. Its solutions include People Success Platform, Employee Engagement, Employee Lifecycle, Manager Effectiveness, and Team Effectiveness. The company was founded by James J. Barnett and Goutham Kurra in 2013 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Velo3D US, Inc. develops and manufactures metal laser sintering printing machines for 3D printing. It offers sapphire printer, flow software, and assure system. The company was founded by Benyamin Buller and Erel Milshtein in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Claroty Ltd. provides cyber security services. It secures cyber physical systems across industrial, healthcare, and enterprise environments. The company was founded by Amir Zilberstein, Benny Porat and Galina Antova and is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Iris Automation, Inc. develops computer vision systems that can make unmanned aerial vehicles, and eventually other robotics and vehicles, truly autonomous. The company was founded by Alexander Harmsen and James Howard and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Impossible Aerospace Corp. manufactures electric aircraft and drones. The company was founded by Albert Spencer Gore in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA.

Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Inc. provides cloud computing services. The company was founded by Christian Weedbrookin 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Center for Inquiry, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 by Richard Dawkins. The organization's mission is to eliminate the influence of religion in science education and public policy, and to remove the stigma surrounding atheism and non-belief. The Center for Inquiry advocates for reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values through specialized policy and political actions focusing on secularist topics and human rights. The organization is a community of freethinkers, activists, leaders, atheists, and humanists who advocate for science literacy and rational thinking in examining religion and other extraordinary claims. The Center for Inquiry provides a virtual library of discussion guides, instructional videos, expert Q&A sessions, and other tools to help groups promote science, reason, and secular values.