Lew Brown

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.

Centillium Communications, Inc. designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable system-on-a-chip solutions that enable high-speed broadband access. Its products include passive optical network chip solutions; mixed-signal integrated circuits, hardware and software applications. The firm also offers fiber to the premises products that include central office transceivers, protocol processors, customer premise equipment transceivers and protocol processors. The company was founded in 1997 by Faraj Aalaei and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Telica, Inc. manufactures telecommunication products. Its products enable service providers to deploy multiple network topologies ranging from single TDM or packet-based end offices to nationwide communications networks. The company offers services to the telecommunication and information technology industries. Telica was founded by John Amand in 1998 and is located in Marlboro, MA

AOptix Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures laser communication systems. Its Composite Optical-RF technology is an integration of wireless optical technology with radio frequency technology, providing ultra-high bandwidth capacity with carrier-grade availability up to 10 kilometers. The company was founded by Anthony P. Mazzarella, J. Elon Graves and Malcolm J. Northcott in 2000 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

BladeLogic, Inc. provides data center automation software solutions. The company was founded by Ittycheria and Vijay Manwani in 2001 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

CloudLock LLC provides cloud data security solutions. It unified cloud security fabric that helps organizations protect sensitive data in public cloud applications such as G Suite, Salesforce, Dropbox, Box, ServiceNow, Office 365, Third-party connected and other apps. The company was founded by Gil J. Zimmermann, Tsahy Shapsa and Ron Zalkind in 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Affirmed Networks, Inc. engages in the provision of network functions virtualization solutions. It offers mobile core solutions, content and security services, virtualized wireless fidelity, service automation, virtual probe and analytics, and network slicing. The company was founded by Anand Krishnamurthy, Harris A. Fishman, Tim Mortsolf , Mohammed Shanableh, Terry Durand, Hassan M. Ahmed, Stephan Noll, and Paul Sherer in 2010 and is headquartered in Acton, MA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of HP, Inc., Octave Communications, Inc. provides voice conferencing equipment. The company is based in Nashua, NH. Octave Communications was acquired by Voyant Technologies, Inc., part of HP, Inc. from January 05, 2004 on January 21, 2003.

Part of Advanced Remote Communication Solutions, Inc., CruisePhone, Inc. provides satellite communications services to the cruise and leisure industry. The company is based in Pompano Beach, FL. CruisePhone was acquired by Advanced Remote Communication Solutions, Inc. on August 16, 1999.

Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Part of CommScope Holding Co., Inc., Philips Broadband Networks, Inc. is a company that provides broadband products and services. The company is based in Manlius, NY. Philips Broadband Networks was acquired by C-COR, Inc. from Koninklijke Philips NV on September 16, 2002 for $77.88 million.

Newview Technologies, Inc. provides software services. The company was founded in September 1998 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX.

QUALCOMM Flarion Technologies develops and provides broadband communication technologies and services. It designs chipsets for wireless gear and wireless network cards that connect PDAs and other devices to broadband networks. The company was founded in 2006 and is located in Bedminster, NJ

Color Chip (Israel) Ltd. designs and manufactures optical sub-systems and components. It develops application specific photonic integrated circuits. The firm delivers optical high-speed transceivers to the datacom/telecom markets and passive optical splitters to the FTTx markets. The company was founded by Shimon Eckhouse, Moshe Price and Shlomo Ruschin in January 2001 and is headquartered in Yokneam, Israel.

Anaqua, Inc. engages in the provision of intellectual asset management software and maintenance services. It offers annuities and renewals, research services, drafting services, paralegal services, implementation services, and intelligent scanning. The company was founded by Paul DiGiammarino in 2004 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Sisense, Inc. provides business intelligence and analytics software services. Its solutions include analytics for business users and embedded and OEM. The firm offers customer service, digital marketing, finance, government, healthcare, human resources, insurance, pharma and transportation services. The company was founded by Adi Azaria, Guy Boyangu, Eldad Farkash, Farkash Eli, Aviad Harell and Elad Israeli in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Intigua, Inc. engages in the provision of virtualization and cloud computing solutions. Its platform manages all monitoring, configuration, security, and backup tools. It also automatically deploys, configure, and troubleshoot tool agents. The company was founded by Shimon Hason and Tomer Levy on May 3, 2010 and is headquartered in Newton, MA.

Vayyar Imaging Ltd. designs and develops radio frequency (RF)-based four-dimensional (4D) imaging sensors that enables applications ranging from breast cancer screening to detecting water leakage, people tracking, and vital signs. The firm offers Vayyar smart products. The company was founded by Naftali Chayat, Miri Ratner, and Raviv Melamed in 2011 and is headquartered in Yehud, Israel.

Sisense Ltd. provides business intelligence and analytics software services. It offers services to the enterprise, government, healthcare, supply chain, manufacturing, retail, and software. The company was founded by Aviad Harell and Guy Boyangu and is headquartered Ramat Gan, Israel.

Electric AI, Inc. provides real-time support and information technology services for small and mid-sized businesses. It offers inventory and service management, procurement, and employee onboarding. The company was founded by Ryan Denehy in August 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Capsule8, Inc. offers attack protection for linux production environments. Its products include attack responsiveness, workflow integration, stability and reliability. The company was founded by John Viega, Dino Dai Zovi, Brandon Edwards and Pete Markowsky in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Exostellar, Inc. provides cloud optimization services. The company is based in Ithaca, NY. The company was founded by Zhiming Shen, Hakim Weatherspoon, Robbert van Renesse. Hakim Weatherspoon has been the CEO since incorporation.

Precisely Holdings LLC engages in the provision of data solutions. Its products include precisely connect, ironstream, assure, syncsort, spectrum quality, context, spatial, and geocoding, trillium, mapinfo, confirm, addresses, boundaries, demographics, points of interest, streets, and engageone communicate, digital self-service, compose and enrichment. The company is headquartered in Pearl River, NY.

Light Labs, Inc. engages in the development of photography solutions through computational imaging technology. It offers a multi-aperture computational camera called L16 and image processing application under the Lumen brand name. The company was founded by Dave Grannan and Rajiv Laroia in 2013 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.