Devesh Patel

Bessemer Venture Partners LP seeks investment opportunities in companies primarily located in the US. The fund focuses on companies with a strong business model, experienced management teams and growth potential. It targets companies operating across a broad range of sectors such as healthcare, information systems, telecommunications, and retailing. It provides financing for seed, early and later stage capital requirements.

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. engages in the business of designing, developing, and selling a family of proxy and other appliances, and related software and services that secure, accelerate, and optimize the delivery of business applications, web content, and other information to distributed users over a wide area network or across an enterprise’s gateway to the public internet. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia and Pacific. The Americas segment includes North America, Central America, and Latin America. The company was founded on March 13, 1996 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

TVL Management Corporation (Trinity Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Gerald Casilli and Noel Fenton. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Google LLC engages in the operation of internet portal and search index website. It provides online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, and software solutions. The company was founded by Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin on September 4, 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

White Sky, Inc. engages in the provision of mobile security and commerce applications. It offers FastConnect, a secure mobile password manager and one-tap ecommerce checkout solution for consumers. The company was founded by William L. Loesch and Jerry Thompson in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Truaxis, Inc. provides loyalty rewards and personalized statement solutions for financial institutions, merchants, and consumers. It offers StatementRewards, a loyalty platform for U.S. credit and debit cardholders. The company was founded by Samir Kothari and Schwark Satyavolu in 2007 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Virtru Corp. develops software solutions. It specializes in digital privacy, digital security, Email encryption and HIPAA compliant email. The company was founded by John M. Ackerly and William Ackerly in 2012 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Digital Shadows, Inc. provides digital risk management and monitoring services for organizations. It offers data analytics with human data analysis to management and mitigate risks of an organization’s brand exposure, cyber threat, data exposure, infrastructure exposure, physical threat, and third party risks. The company was founded by Alastair Paterson and James Chappell in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

BT Counterpane, Inc. provides internet managed security monitoring services. Its services include vulnerability scanning, security assessment, maintenance, training, support, consulting, e-mail scanning, network device management and denial of service attack prevention. The company was founded by Schneier Bruce and Thomas E. Rowley in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Vimo, Inc. provides online comparison services for health insurance and benefit plans. Its services include implementation and launch, sales and marketing, customer support and account management, and consumer service center. It offers administration modules and advanced billing and payment. The company was founded by Chini Krishnan and Shankar Srinivasan in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

The Nueva School operates as an independent school serving gifted students and emphasizing integrated studies, arts, and social-emotional learning. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Hillsborough, CA.

Water.org, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that has transformed over 58 million lives worldwide by providing access to safe water and sanitation. The non-profit company is based in Kansas City, MO, and has subsidiaries in the United States. Water.org pioneers market-driven financial solutions to the water crisis and has been helping women, children, and families for over 30 years. Water.org is committed to sharing its evidence, research, and data to achieve universal access to safe water and sanitation. The company's unique approach to solving the water crisis is scalable, allowing them to meet the needs of millions worldwide without safe water and sanitation. Learn about their solutions and how to help today. The company was founded by Matt Damon and Gary White, with Gary White serving as CEO since its inception.

iSIGHT Security LLC provides cyber threat intelligence services. The company was founded by Jonathan Couch and John P. Watters in 2007 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Auth0, Inc. engages in the provision of universal authentication and authorization platform for web, mobile, and legacy applications. It serves the financial, healthcare, media, retail, and real estate industries. The company was founded by Matias Woloski and Eugenio Pace in 2013 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

Digital Shadows Ltd. provides cyber situational awareness solutions that helps organizations protect against cyber attacks, loss of intellectual property, and loss of brand and reputational integrity. It offers Digital Shadows SearchLight, a flagship solution analysis platform that provides a view of an organization’s digital footprint and the profile of its attackers. The company was founded by Alastair Paterson and James Chappell in 2011 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Rigetti & Co., Inc. develops and delivers integrated quantum and classical computing capabilities. The firm's flagship product, Quantum Cloud Services provides dedicated access to quantum hardware and a development environment tailored for practical applications. The company was founded by Chad T. Rigetti in 2013 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Velo3D US, Inc. develops and manufactures metal laser sintering printing machines for 3D printing. It offers sapphire printer, flow software, and assure system. The company was founded by Benyamin Buller and Erel Milshtein in 2014 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Branch International, Inc. provides financial services through its mobile application. The company was founded by Matthew Flannery, Daniel Jung and Random Bares in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Iris Automation, Inc. develops computer vision systems that can make unmanned aerial vehicles, and eventually other robotics and vehicles, truly autonomous. The company was founded by Alexander Harmsen and James Howard and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Squire Technologies, Inc. provides Squire, a web and mobile application that allows the client to book and pay for a haircut or shave in three clicks. Its application are used to discover barbers based on style, budget, location, and others; and check availability and book a timeslot that fits the client schedule; and pay for service and tip. The firm's platform also gives the tools the barber needed to connect with existing clients-and gain new ones. The company was founded by Songe LaRon, Dave Salvant, and Yas Tabasam in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Impossible Aerospace Corp. manufactures electric aircraft and drones. The company was founded by Albert Spencer Gore in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA.

Baton Systems LLC designs and develops a blockchain-inspired, bank-to-bank payments infrastructure solution. The firm offers Baton platform. The company was founded by Arjun Jayaram in 2016 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Inc. provides cloud computing services. The company was founded by Christian Weedbrookin 2016 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Synapse Financial Technologies, Inc. provides banking platform that enables companies to provide finance products. The company was founded by Sankaet Pathak and Bryan Keltner and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Center for Inquiry, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 by Richard Dawkins. The organization's mission is to eliminate the influence of religion in science education and public policy, and to remove the stigma surrounding atheism and non-belief. The Center for Inquiry advocates for reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values through specialized policy and political actions focusing on secularist topics and human rights. The organization is a community of freethinkers, activists, leaders, atheists, and humanists who advocate for science literacy and rational thinking in examining religion and other extraordinary claims. The Center for Inquiry provides a virtual library of discussion guides, instructional videos, expert Q&A sessions, and other tools to help groups promote science, reason, and secular values.