Part I: The future of AI is vertical - Bessemer Venture Partners
Talks about Vertical AI, LLM-native applications and SaaS
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Sam Bondy
Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Sam Bondy is an Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners in San Francisco, specializing in FinTech and SaaS sectors and investing in Series A and Seed stages. With a background in economics and financial modeling, he has served as a board member or observer for various tech companies, including Canva and Shopmonkey.
Bondy's career highlights include his role at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he has made strategic investments in early-stage and growth companies, and his involvement as a board member or observer for a range of successful tech startups.
Work Experience
Early & Growth Investor
2023 - Current
BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.
Investor
2024
Board Observer
2024
MaintainX is a provider of a work order and procedure digitization platform for industrial and frontline teams.
Raised $103,800,000.00 from Jeff Lawson, Ridge Ventures, August Capital, Rob Bernshteyn, Chris Comparato, Amity Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Allison Pickens, Bessemer Venture Partners and Jeff Immelt.
Board Observer
2024
Shopmonkey provides a process management software designed for auto repair shops.
Raised $110,000,000.00 from Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ Growth, Aurum Partners, Headline, I2BF Global Ventures, K5 Global and Index Ventures.
Board Observer
2024
Board Observer
2024
Website and marketing system used by the world’s leading real estate agents and brokers.
Raised $50,500,000.00 from Switch Ventures, Toba Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Scribble Ventures, 75 & Sunny, Scribble Ventures, Toba Capital, Dirk Nowitzki, Switch Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Investor
2024
Investor
2024
Investor
2024
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that focuses on increasing the safety of large-scale AI systems.
Raised $13,740,377,627.00 from Amazon.
Board Member
2024
Courier is a notification-creation program for app developers that offers push notifications, emails, chat, slack, and custom channels.
Raised $47,500,000.00 from Twilio, Matrix, Google Ventures, Slack Fund, Y Combinator and Bessemer Venture Partners.