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Kent Bennett

Partner
Cambridge

Biography

Kent Bennett is a partner in Bessemer’s Cambridge office focusing on B2B application software and consumer “earthquakes.”

Before his career in venture capital, Kent was a creative executive for an entertainment production company, where he developed and sold original material including a network television pilot and a feature film. He began his career with Bain & Co., where he worked on projects in industries spanning IT, retail, consumer products, healthcare, and biotech.

Kent earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and graduated summa cum laude in systems engineering from the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Scholar.

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“Today, successful consumer companies are all built the same way. Incredible product drives cult-like user love and organic growth. Everything else is just details.”

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Provi

Provi is a communication platform and open marketplace that simplifies the operations for bars, restaurants, and retailers in the beverage industry.

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Kent Bennett

Founded

2014

Partnered

2019

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Enterprise
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Recurrency

Recurrency is the developer of an ERP automation platform for planning tools in the distribution ecosystem and offers enterprise resource planning with automated sales, purchasing, and pricing workflows in the tool, and on-demand recommendations, enabling wholesale distributors and B2B retailers to automate and optimize their pricing and sales processes.

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Kent Bennett

Founded

2018

Partnered

2021

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AI & ML Enterprise

Toast

NYSE: TOST
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Toast

Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and hospitality space. In September 2021, Toast went public (NYSE: TOST).

NYSE: TOST

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Kent Bennett

Founded

2011

Partnered

2015

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