Investing Profile

Sameer Dholakia

InvestorVCAngelFormer CEO
Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
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Networks Sameer is a member of
Stanford University Network
1415 CONNECTIONS
Stanford University Network
1415 CONNECTIONS
Harvard Business School Network
828 CONNECTIONS
Bessemer Venture Partners Network
147 CONNECTIONS
Anthropic Network
88 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Bessemer Venture Partners Partner
Investment Range
$1M - $250.0M
Sweet Spot
$25.0M
Investments On Record
24
Current Fund Size
$1.85B

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Sameer Dholakia's Investments On Record (13)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Upwind Security
Series CSep 2026$300M
Series BJan 2026$250M
$1B
Co-investors: Elliott Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners), Saam Motamedi (Greylock), Morgan Gerlak (TCV), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Bryant Barr (Penny Jar Capital), Rakesh K. Loonkar (Picture Capital), Gideon Hayden (Leaders Fund), Kevin Gabura (Craft Ventures), Omri Casspi (Shevat Ventures)
Anthropic
Series HMay 2026$50B
Series GFeb 2026$30B
Series EMar 2025$3.5B
Secondary MarketMay 2024$450M
$100B
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Hugo Van Roy (Sequoia Capital), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Preetha Parthasarathy (Sapphire Ventures), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Marc Stad (Dragoneer Investment Group), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Adeel Hussain (Stagsted Properties), Alexandre Perrin (Cleverton Ventures), Matt Murphy (Kleiner Perkins), Aatish Patel (MintInvestor), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Guru Chahal (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Anis Uzzaman (Pegasus Tech Ventures), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital), Siddharth Singhal (trilitech), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Korea), Vikas Sabnani (Stealth Company (Vikas Sabnani)), Jack Leeney (7 Global Capital), Jaan Tallinn, Jason Haider, Ishani Patel, Dustin Moskovitz
Legora
Series DMar 2026$550M
Series COct 2025$150M
$820M
Co-investors: Logan Bartlett (Redpoint Ventures), Chetan Puttagunta (Benchmark), Zeynep Yavuz (General Catalyst), Elliott Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Seth Pierrepont (ICONIQ Capital), Jacob Effron (Forus), Yuri Sagalov (Wayfinder Ventures), Ryan Morgan (Crossbeam Venture Partners), Arun Mathew (Accel Partners), Richard Seewald (Evolution Equity Partners)
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)
EvenUp
Series EOct 2025$150M
Series DOct 2024$140M
Series BApr 2023$51M
$370M
Co-investors: Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), David Cheng (Costanoa Ventures), Sarah Hinkfuss (Halyard Collective), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, LP), Scott Belsky (A24), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Raviraj Jain (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Arif Janmohamed (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Morgan Beller (NF Forward), Arjun Sethi (Tribe-V Venture Capital)
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)
EliseAI
Series EAug 2025$250M
$360M
Co-investors: Cathy Gao (Sapphire Ventures), Alex Immerman (Andreessen Horowitz), Jo Ann Corkran (Golden Seeds)

Sameer Dholakia's Experience

Partner Bessemer Venture Partners2022 - Present
Board Member ServiceTitan2021 - Present
Board Member PagerDuty2019 - Present
Board Member - Independent PagerDutyPresent
Board Member - Independent Auth0Present
Board Member - Independent ServiceTitanPresent
Investor JasperPresent
Investor DeepLPresent
Board Member EvenUpPresent
Investor AbridgePresent
Board Member FieldguidePresent
Investor AnthropicPresent
Board Observer EliseAIPresent
Board Member ValencePresent
Board Observer Legora (formerly Leya)Present
Investor WaymoPresent
Investor Fireworks AIPresent
Client Partner Trilogy, Inc.Present
CEO CitrixPresent
CEO - Twilio SendGrid TwilioPresent
Board Member Auth02020 - 2021
CEO - Twilio SendGrid Twilio Inc.2019 - 2020
CEO SendGrid2014 - 2019
Group VP and GM, Cloud Platforms Group Citrix Systems2011 - 2014
VP Marketing Citrix Systems2010 - 2011
CEO VMLogix, Inc.2007 - 2010
Client Partner Trilogy2004 - 2007
VP Strategic Alliances Trilogy1999 - 2002
Director, Automotive Business Development Trilogy1998 - 1999
Director, Pricing Product Group Trilogy1995 - 1998

Sameer Dholakia's Education

Harvard Business School MBA Emphasis in Entrepreneurship and Technology
Stanford University BA Economics
Stanford University MA Organizational Studies

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