 Bessemer Blogs To learn more about the inner workings of BVP’s investors, check their blogs for opinions on everything from venture capital to specific industry trends: David Cowan: Who Has Time for This? When Failure Is An Option Philippe Botteri is a Senior Associate in BVP’s Menlo Park office. Working primarily with Byron Deeter, he focuses on the enterprise software and internet sectors. Most recently, Philippe was a senior engagement manager at McKinsey & Co.’s high-tech practice in Silicon Valley, where he focused in the software, David Cowan joined Bessemer in 1992. Of his 45 early-stage investments, 18 were acquired and 19 went public. Bessemer’s investment practice in data security ranks among our most successful, and we’re proud to have funded more leading innovators in data security than any other venture capital firm (as far as we know). Adam Fisher joined Bessemer in 2007 as a Partner. Based in the Larchmont office, he focuses on the firm’s Israel-related investments in both the U.S. and Israel. Adam is Bessemer’s first partner to be dedicated to Israel, where the firm has made a number of investments, including ART (acquired by Scansoft, now Nuance BVP opened an office in Herzliya in 2007 and seeks to contribute to Israel's rich heritage of technological innovation. Justin is a Partner in Bessemer’s Menlo Park office, focusing on Cleantech investments. He has been with Bessemer since 2001. Justin initiated Bessemer's Cleantech practice in 2005. His Cleantech investments include Silicon Valley Solar and Exclara , and he is also involved in Bessemer's other Cleantech portfoli Jeremy is a Partner with Bessemer Venture Partners. He focuses primarily on software and services investments. Prior to joining BVP in 2001, Jeremy was Vice President of Operations at Dash, an Internet software publisher. Jeremy joined Dash from AEA Investors, a private equity firm with an expertise in leveraged an We believe Cloud Computing is the most important trend in the software industry of the decade. We have been fortunate to work with many of the early pioneers in this high growth market segment, and continue to invest actively to grow our current portfolio. Sarah Tavel is an Associate working with Jeremy Levine in the Larchmont office. She focuses on the software and Internet sectors and has been closely involved in the Metalogix, Yodle, Cornerstone OnDemand, Onestop, and CPower investments. Sarah joined BVP in 2006 as an Analyst with responsibility for identifying se |