In the fall of 2001, Mellanox Technologies CEO Eyal Waldman was going through the often-excruciating process of venture-capital due diligence. Bessemer Venture Partners was sussing out the firm, which makes semiconductor-based interconnect products for servers and storage devices, for a possible investment.
Then, 9/11 hit.
Throughout the market, “everybody stopped investing,” Waldman recalls. Some companies...
When Bessemer Venture Partners got ready to seed-invest in chip-design firm Berkeley Design Automation, it was on one condition: That Ravi Subramanian be installed as CEO.
Bessemer Partner Rob Chandra says he had a “fondness” for Subramanian, whom Chandra had worked with when Subramanian was running a previous Bessemer company, MorphICs Technology, a fabless semiconductor firm which made chips for 3G phones. But...
Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Prerna Gupta, who is CEO of Khush (now part of Smule), whose music apps,like Songify and LaDiDa, have been used to create over 200 million songs worldwide. You can follow her @prernagupta.
When I became an entrepreneur at the age of twenty-three, I began in earnest, as do all entrepreneurs, chasing a dream. My dream was clear. I would build a consumer technology company...
Jeff Smith was a happy music Ph.D. student at Stanford University two-and-a-half years ago when Bessemer Partner David Cowan came calling—again.
Smith, who had been CEO of Bessemer portfolio company Tumbleweed Communications before stepping down to pursue music full time, always kept in touch with Cowan, a noted Internet-security expert. Cowan had invested in Tumbleweed’s B round in 1997. After...
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