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 (13)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Legora	Series DMar 2026$550M Series COct 2025$150M	$820M
Co-investors: Jacob Effron (Redpoint Ventures), Logan Bartlett (Redpoint Ventures), Chetan Puttagunta (Benchmark), Jeannette zu Fürstenberg (General Catalyst), Zeynep Yavuz (General Catalyst), Elliott Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners), Arun Mathew (Accel), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Yuri Sagalov (10100), Seth Pierrepont (ICONIQ Capital), Ryan Morgan (Crossbeam Venture Partners), Richard Seewald (Evolution Equity Partners)
Anthropic	Series GFeb 2026$30B Series EMar 2025$3.5B Secondary MarketMay 2024$450M	$100B
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), 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), Marc Stad (Dragoneer Investment Group), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Brennda Reis (Friedom Partners), Vikas Sabnani (Stealth Company (Vikas Sabnani)), Jack Leeney (7GC & Co), Alexandre Perrin (Enauto Ventures), Aatish Patel (Other Ventures), Jaan Tallinn, Ishani Patel, Adeel Hussain, Jason Haider, Preetha Parthasarathy, 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: 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), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Bryant Barr (Penny Jar Capital), Kevin Gabura (Carrick Capital Partners), Gideon Hayden, Omri Casspi, Rakesh K. Loonkar
EvenUp	Series EOct 2025$150M Series DOct 2024$140M Series BApr 2023$51M	$370M
Co-investors: David Cheng (DCM), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sarah Hinkfuss (Bain Capital Ventures), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, LP), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange)
Valence	Series BSep 2025$50M	$76M
Co-investors: Katie Bullard (Insight Partners), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Anna Barber (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)