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Ethan Kurzweil Live in the TechStars Studio

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BVP's Ethan Kurzweil, live in the TechStars studio, discuss SendGrid, Twilio and the new breed of API driven web infrastructure companies. The discussion is followed by a breakdown of the SendGrid pitch.

Verastem: Christoph Westphal

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CEO Christoph Westphal discusses how Verastem's focus on developing novel drugs targeting cancer stem cells could have a meaningful impact on cancer survival
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Flarion: Ray Dolan

In the spring of 2001, with the telecom market melting down, wireless-broadband startup Flarion was out raising cash. And having a pretty tough time of it.

“We were on thin ice,” recalls former Flarion CEO Ray Dolan. “We were down to two payrolls or three.” To make matters worse, one of the company’s major strategic investors was balking at ponying up more money for the untested venture.

But two of Flarion’s...

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Mastercard Acquires Bessemer’s Truaxis

 

 
 
MasterCard Inc. acquired Redwood City-based Truaxis for an undisclosed sum. Truaxis has developed the leading technology platform for distributing merchant funded reward programs through financial institutions. The company also operates the Billshrink.com web site for helping consumers reduce their bills by analyzing and identifying their usage of common household...

Smule Launches Ocarina 2 for iPhone

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Piazza: Pooja Nath Sankar

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CEO, Pooja Sankar describes the learning community platform and discusses her motivation for founding the company.
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Mellanox: Eyal Waldman

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...

Hunch: Chris Dixon

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CEO Chris Dixon explains how Hunch helps people make better decisions

By The Numbers

  • 101

    years old

  • 105

    IPOs

  • $1.6B

    current fund

  • 50

    investment professionals

  • $7,500

    smallest investment

  • $46M

    largest investment

  • 2.6

    investing rounds per company

  • 27%

    of the time we lose our entire investment

  • 249

    collective years of investing experience

  • 40

    years held longest investment

  • 4

    most times we backed one entrepreneur

  • 35

    first time CEOs in portfolio

  • 6

    Offices worldwide

  • 15

    Countries home to BVP portfolio companies

  • 24%

    of capital invested outside the US

  • 1.07M

    miles flown this year

  • 16,776

    yearly phone minutes per team member

  • 78%

    iphone

  • 8%

    Android

  • 14%

    Blackberry

  • 3,556

    startups introduced to BVP annually

  • 11,250

    meals per year with entrepreneurs

  • 7

    times we passed on FedEx

  • 1

    time we invested in a simulcast bullfight

  • 29,397

    annual emails sent per team member

  • 16.9

    terabytes of total data storage

  • 345

    gigabytes of storage per investor

  • 29%

    annual data growth