Eric Buatois
General Partner at BGV
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2023 - Current
Managing General Partner
2014
BGV is a cross-border VC platform with deep roots in Silicon Valley and an exclusive focus on global Enterprise 5.0 technology innovation. As a pioneer in human-centric enterprise AI, BGV invests in startups that seamlessly combine human ingenuity with intelligent machines to drive efficiency, scalability, and productivity gains. The partnership sources companies from innovation hubs around the world and deploys financial and human capital from seed stage to IPO. With offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, Paris, and Bangalore, BGV has championed a cross-border venture investing model with a portfolio representing businesses in the US, Israel, Europe, and India.
Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.
Raised $150,000,000.00 from Nate Rosenthal.
Board Member
2020
First full "touch to cloud" solution for enterprise mobile applications.
Onymos offers an app foundation that bundles end-to-end functions and building blocks to create software applications.
Raised $15,150,000.00 from Benhamou Global Ventures, Industry Ventures, Engineering Capital and GreatPoint Ventures.
Board Member
2021
Board Member
2020
Enterprise grade AI solutions for Digital Marketing Teams
MadKudu is a predictive lead-scoring solution built exclusively for high-volume B2B SaaS companies to help them accelerate growth.
Raised $27,121,950.00 from Techstars, Sahil Mansuri, Benhamou Global Ventures, Darius Contractor, Elena Verna, HarbourVest Partners, Alven, Felicis, Alven and Partech.
Board Member
2020
Platform.sh transforms DevOps to No Ops. PAAS solution allowing developers to deploy their applications on the cloud in minutes.
Managing Director
2001 - 2015
lead investor for early stage companies ( typically first round of VC financing ). Board member of semiconductor companies such as Hellosoft( sold to Imagination Technology) , UPEK( sold to Apple) , Crocus Technology, CrestaTech and Cortina Systems.(Inphi) Served as chairman of UPEK from 2005 to 2009 and chairman of Crocus technology since inception until January 2010 Strategic Advisor to Benhamou Global Ventures http://benhamouglobalventures.com/team/
Sofinnova Investments specializes in seed, startup, mid, early stage, series A, first venture round, and corporate spinouts.
Vice President, general manager telecom business unit
1998 - 2001
responsible for all the dedicated communications software products ( opencall, openview for service providers) responsible of the overall vertical communication industry
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
Executive Vice president
1994 - 1998
Responsible for all the OSS product for Ericsson networks EHPT was a joint venture between Ericsson and Hewlett Packard
Ericsson Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in innovative companies.
Marketing manager, Telecommunications Business Unit
1987 - 1994
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
Education
masters
1979 - 1982