Investing Profile

Sameer Dholakia

InvestorVCAngelFormer CEO

Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Investor, Board Member, Former CEO

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Stanford University Network

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Stanford University Network

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Harvard Business School Network

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Bessemer Venture Partners Network

102 CONNECTIONS

Trilogy Network

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Current Investing Position

Bessemer Venture Partners Partner

Investment Range

$1M - $250.0M

Sweet Spot

$25.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$1.85B

Sameer Dholakia is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Sameer Dholakia's Investments On Record (8)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Legora	Series DMar 2026$550M Series COct 2025$150M	$820M
Co-investors: Chetan Puttagunta (Benchmark), Jacob Effron (Redpoint Ventures), Zeynep Yavuz (General Catalyst), Logan Bartlett (Redpoint Ventures), Jeannette zu Fürstenberg (General Catalyst), Elliott Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Arun Mathew (Accel), Ryan Morgan (Crossbeam Venture Partners), Seth Pierrepont (ICONIQ Capital), Richard Seewald (Evolution Equity Partners), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Terrence Rohan (Otherwise Fund)
Anthropic	Series GFeb 2026$30B	$100B
Co-investors: Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Marc Stad (Dragoneer Investment Group), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Ravi Mhatre (Anthropic), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Anis Uzzaman (Pegasus Tech Ventures), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital), Siddharth Singhal (trilitech), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Global Ventures), Brennda Reis (Friedom Partners), Vikas Sabnani (Stealth Company (Vikas Sabnani)), Jack Leeney (7GC & Co), Alexandre Perrin (Enauto Ventures), Aatish Patel (Other Ventures), Ishani Patel, Preetha Parthasarathy, Adeel Hussain, Jason Haider, Dustin Moskovitz, Jaan Tallinn
Fieldguide	Series CFeb 2026$75M Series BMar 2024$30M	$130M
Co-investors: Alex Moore (8VC), Arjun Chopra (Floodgate), Ellen Ma (UpHonest Capital), Michael Seibel (Y Combinator), Ivy Nguyen (GFT Ventures)
Waymo	Series DFeb 2026$16B	$16B
Co-investors: David Krane (GV (Google Ventures)), David Cowan (Bessemer Venture Partners), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Jared Middleman (Dragoneer Investment Group), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global)
Upwind Security	Series BJan 2026$250M	$400M
Co-investors: Saam Motamedi (Greylock), Morgan Gerlak (Technology Crossover Ventures), Elliott Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners), Kevin Gabura (Carrick Capital Partners), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Bryant Barr (Penny Jar Capital), Gideon Hayden, Rakesh K. Loonkar, Omri Casspi
EvenUp	Series EOct 2025$150M Series DOct 2024$140M Series BApr 2023$51M	$370M
Co-investors: Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sarah Hinkfuss (Bain Capital Ventures), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), David Cheng (DCM), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Morgan Beller
Valence	Series BSep 2025$50M	$76M
Co-investors: Katie Bullard (Insight Partners), Anna Barber (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Diana Hu (Y Combinator)
Reprise	Series BNov 2021$62M	$82M
Co-investors: Ajay Agarwal (Bain Capital Ventures), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), Jack Altman (Benchmark), Rudina Seseri (Glasswing Ventures), Jayni Shah (Fifth Down Capital), Zach Perret (Mischief Venture Capital), Lauren Farleigh (Mischief Venture Capital), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Trevor Noah, Mark Ghermezian, Howie Liu