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

77 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: Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Jacob Effron (Redpoint Ventures), Chetan Puttagunta (Benchmark), Arun Mathew (Accel), Logan Bartlett (Redpoint Ventures), 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	$51B
Co-investors: Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Anis Uzzaman (Pegasus Tech Ventures), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital), Siddharth Singhal (trilitech), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Global Ventures), Jack Campbell (Signal Bay Capital), Brennda Reis (Friedom Partners), Vikas Sabnani (Stealth Company (Vikas Sabnani)), Jack Leeney (7GC & Co), Alexandre Perrin (Enauto Ventures), Aatish Patel (Other Ventures), Preetha Parthasarathy, Adeel Hussain, Ishani Patel, Elia Montanari, Jason Haider, Dustin Moskovitz
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: Jared Middleman (Dragoneer Investment Group), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global)
Upwind Security	Series BJan 2026$250M	$400M
Co-investors: Elliott Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners), Kevin Gabura (Carrick Capital Partners), Saam Motamedi (Greylock 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: Sarah Hinkfuss (Bain Capital Ventures), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Morgan Beller (NFX), Allison Pickens (Bessemer Venture Partners), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Scott Belsky (A24), Gokul Rajaram (Top-Patents)
Valence	Series BSep 2025$50M	$75M
Co-investors: Katie Bullard (Insight Partners), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Anna Barber (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund))
Reprise	Series BNov 2021$62M	$82M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Ajay Agarwal (Bain Capital Ventures), Ryan Petersen (Founders Fund), 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