 Healthcare Practice Overview BVP has invested in healthcare-related companies since the early 1980s. Drawing on our investors’ experience in medicine, science, information technology, and management, BVP has backed developers of innovative therapeutics, providers of healthcare services, and supplier Acceleron Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics that modulate the growth of tissues including bone and muscle. Acorn manufactures a device to treat congestive heart failure. A drug discovery and product development company that is creating novel peptide drugs for the treatment of serious and life-threatening conditions related to kidney disease and cancer, BVP invested in Affymax in 2005. Eighteen months later, the company went public on NASDAQ as AFFY. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (formerly Allscripts, Inc.) provides software that allows physicians to automate most routine information-gathering tasks. BVP’s Chris Gabrieli invested in Allscript’s second round in April 1988. The company went public in July 1999 as NASDAQ:MDRX. Ambar Bhattacharyya is an Senior Associate at Bessemer Venture Partners, working out of the Cambridge, MA office. Aran Ron is an Operating Partner specializing in healthcare. Based in the New York office, he works closely with Bob Goodman. Aran brings to Bessemer more than 25 years of experience in practicing and teaching medicine and managing health plans Arris was founded in 1989 to develop drugs more quickly using high throughput computer screening. BVP invested in 1992. Arris went public the following year as NASDAQ ARRS and five years later merged with the human DNA prospecting firm Sequanna Aveo Pharmaceuticals discovers and develops novel cancer therapeutics. In March 2010, it went public (NASDAQ: AVEO). Bob Goodman, a founding partner in Bessemer’s New York office, joined the firm in 1998. He focuses on investments in software, communications and healthcare IT. Bob is currently a member of the board of directors of VoIP-communications company BroadSoft ; telecommunications provider GTS ; mobile-adver Chris Gabrieli has led Bessemer's life science practice since 1986. Previously, he had dropped out of medical school to run GMIS, a medical information company backed by Bessemer. In 1999, Chris took a leave from Bessemer and established Massachusetts 2020, an education-oriented non-profit. EPIX, founded in 1988, develops imaging agents for use in MRIs. BVP participated in its early rounds. The company went public as NASDAQ EPIX in 1997. GMIS developed software that facilitated the medical insurance payment process by translating medical terms into codes. BVP's Bill Burgin invested in the company in 1984 and hired Chris Gabrieli, its interim CEO, first as a consultant in 1987 and then BVP's Chris Gabrieli invested in this developer of treatments for allergies and auto immune diseases in 1988. It went public in 1991 as NASDAQ IMUL. IPC provides physician services, management and IT solutions for the emerging specialty of inpatient (hospitalist) care. In January 2008, it went public (NASDAQ: IPCM). BVP's Chris Gabrieli invested in and served as Chairman of Isis, a company developing a new class of drugs based on antisense oligonucleotides, which inhibit cells from producing disease-causing proteins. Isis went public in 1991 (NASDAQ:ISIP).
Kent Bennett is a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners, working out of the Cambridge, MA office.
The trusted partner for health and human services’ largest connected community of providers and payers, Netsmart provides comprehensive financial, clinical and management solutions for healthcare delivery organizations. In June 2010, it was acquired by Genstar Capital. On Q ity is an innovative diagnostic company that provides physicians with the tools they need to make the best decision when treating individual cancer patients. Products currently in development are based on two core technologies 1) DNA repair biomarkers Opta, a maker of food additives, was founded in 1987 as part of Enzytech, a biopharmaceutical research company. In 1991, Enzytech spun out the food division to concentrate on drug delivery processes. BVP's Chris Gabrieli had invested in Enzytech in Oxagen is developing an improved treatment for asthma. PerSeptive Biosystems developed and manufactured an integrated system for the purification, analysis, and synthesis of bio-molecules, reducing the time and cost of drug discoveries. BVP’s Chris Gabrieli invested in the company’s second round in December 1989. PerSeptive went public in May 1992 as NASDAQ:PBIO. Purchase Proteon Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company using tissue remodeling techniques to develop novel pharmaceuticals that address the medical needs of patients with renal and vascular diseases. Restore Medical developed a series of therapeutic devices to treat snoring and other sleep-disordered breathing conditions. It went public in 2006 (NASDAQ:REST) and was acquired in 2008 by Medtronic (NYSE:MDT). Sirtris is a biopharmaceutical firm developing enzymes that activate our natural defenses against disease. It went public in May 2007 (NASDAQ:SIRT) and was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) in 2008. Stephen Kraus is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, working out of the Cambridge, MA office. Stromedix is a biotechnology company committed to developing innovative therapies to treat fibrosis. BVP's Chris Gabrieli led the first round in VistaCare, now a leading hospice care provider that went public in 2002 as NASDAQ VSTA. |