Byron Deeter

Byron Deeter is a Partner in BVP's Menlo Park office after having previously been a successful entrepreneur, investor, and consultant. At Bessemer, he focuses on  investments in the Cloud Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS) and Internet sectors. 

Most recently, Byron was an executive at IBM, as a result of its 2004 acquisition of Trigo Technologies, the cloud-computing company he co-founded. At Trigo, Byron served as founding president & CEO, then became vice-president of business development as the company grew to profitability, 150 employees and a $40+ million run-rate. BVP worked closely with Byron and the executive team after Trigo's founding in 1999, and invested in all institutional financing rounds.

Prior to Trigo, Byron worked in private equity with TA Associates where he focused on technology investing with investments in companies such as Kintana (acquired by Mercury Interactive). He came to TA from McKinsey & Company, where he was involved with Fortune 500 clients in the media and technology markets, and was active in McKinsey's Innovation and Technology Management practice.

Byron holds a degree with honors from UC Berkeley in political economy. He was named a California Emerging Leader Scholar and an Alumni Scholar, and was a varsity member of Cal's national championship rugby team. Byron is the author of "Bessemer's 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS" and was recently named one of the ten "Thought Leaders of the SaaS Revolution."

  
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Trigo created enterprise software solutions for Product Information Management. BVP's David Cowan participated in all of Trigo's institutional rounds from its founding in 1999 by a team that included Byron Deeter, who has since become a BVP partner. The company was acquired in 2004 by IBM (NYSE:IBM).