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: Chetan Puttagunta (Benchmark), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Arun Mathew (Accel), Logan Bartlett (Redpoint Ventures), Jacob Effron (Redpoint Ventures), Zeynep Yavuz (General Catalyst), Elliott Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners), 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: Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Aatish Patel (Other Ventures), Alexandre Perrin (Enauto Ventures), Jack Leeney (7GC & Co), Vikas Sabnani (Stealth Company (Vikas Sabnani)), Brennda Reis (Friedom Partners), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Global Ventures), Siddharth Singhal (trilitech), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital), Anis Uzzaman (Pegasus Tech Ventures), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), Adeel Hussain, Jason Haider, Ishani Patel, Preetha Parthasarathy, Jaan Tallinn, Dustin Moskovitz, Elia Montanari
Fieldguide	Series CFeb 2026$75M Series BMar 2024$30M	$130M
Co-investors: Alex Moore (8VC), Arjun Chopra (Floodgate), Ellen Ma (UpHonest Capital), Ivy Nguyen (GFT Ventures), Michael Seibel (Y Combinator)
Waymo	Series DFeb 2026$16B	$16B
Co-investors: Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), David Cowan (Bessemer Venture Partners), Jared Middleman (Dragoneer Investment Group), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global)
Upwind Security	Series BJan 2026$250M	$400M
Co-investors: Saam Motamedi (Greylock), Elliott Robinson (Bessemer Venture Partners), Kevin Gabura (Carrick Capital Partners), Gili Raanan (Cyberstarts VC), Morgan Gerlak (TCV), 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: David Cheng (DCM), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), Morgan Beller (NFX), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital Ventures), Arif Janmohamed (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sarah Hinkfuss (Bain Capital Ventures), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures, formerly The New Normal Fund), Scott Belsky (A24), Gokul Rajaram (Top-Patents)
Valence	Series BSep 2025$50M	$76M
Co-investors: Katie Bullard (Insight Partners), Scott Hartley (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Jenny Fielding (Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)), Anna Barber (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), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Rudina Seseri (Glasswing Ventures), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Lauren Farleigh (Mischief Venture Capital), Zach Perret (Mischief Venture Capital), Jayni Shah (Fifth Down Capital), Trevor Noah, Howie Liu, Mark Ghermezian