Rotate Your Device

This site doesn't support landscape mode. Please rotate your phone to portrait.

Sameer Dholakia

Sameer Dholakia

Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Investor, Board Member, Former CEO. Passionate about building great companies with…

San Francisco Bay Area, United StatesComputer Software
Company
Bessemer Venture Partners
Title
Partner
Seniority
Partner
Department
C Suite
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Industry
Computer Software

About

I currently co-lead the growth investment practice at Bessemer Venture Partners. I am passionate about AI-native software companies, partnering with Anthropic, Legora, Valence, Elise AI, Fieldguide, Abridge, EvenUp, DeepL and Jasper to support their next phase of growth. During my sabbatical, I served as Independent Director to ServiceTitan (TTAN), PagerDuty (PD), and Auth0. Prior to Bessemer, I had the privilege of serving as CEO of SendGrid to accelerate the company’s growth (~$30M to >$200M+ ARR, through an IPO and a public-to-public acquisition by Twilio). As an investor, I remain relentlessly focused on supporting exceptional leaders building and scaling their companies.

Experience

Partner

Bessemer Venture Partners · San Francisco Bay Area

Present

I am passionate about AI-native software companies, partnering with Anthropic (Foundation Model AI), Legora (Vertical AI for Corporate Law), Valence (AI Coaching), Elise AI (Vertical AI for Property Management), Fieldguide (Vertical AI for Audit), Abridge (Vertical AI for Health Care), EvenUp (Vertical AI for Personal Injury Law), DeepL (Translation AI) and Jasper (Marketing AI) to support their next phase of growth. Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr, and Toast and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer has teams of investors and partners located in Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley, San Francisco,…

Investor

Waymo · San Francisco Bay Area

Present

Investor

Anthropic

Present

Investor

Abridge

Present

Board Member

EvenUp

Present

Board Observer

Legora

Present

Board Observer

EliseAI

Present

Board Member

Fieldguide

Present

Board Member

Valence

Present

Investor

DeepL

Present

Education

Stanford University

MA, Organizational Studies

Harvard Business School

MBA, Emphasis in Entrepreneurship and Technology

Stanford University

BA, Economics

Find leads like Sameer

Origami finds your ideal customers across 15+ data sources with a single prompt.

Try Origami Free