Jeff Epstein
Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Operating Partner
2011 - Current
Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) invests in early-stage and hyper-growth startups, partnering closely with entrepreneurs to build durable businesses. BVP is a global firm with offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, Cambridge, New York, Bangalore and Herzliya. With $4 billion under management, BVP invests anywhere from $100,000 to $75 million in innovative companies like Pinterest, Twilio, Box, LinkedIn, Shopify, Yelp, Skype and CornerstoneOnDemand. Over 100 BVP companies have gone public – in the last three years alone, BVP has had 46 exits (IPO and M&A) and made new investments in more than 85 companies
BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.
Chair, Board Of Directors
2017
More than 2 million developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience. Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, and video by virtualizing the world’s telecommunications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications. By making communications a part of every software developer's toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.
Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API.
Raised $614,415,525.00 from TCV.
Member Board Of Directors
2021
Okta is the leading independent identity provider.
Okta is a management platform that secures critical resources from cloud to ground for workforce and customers.
Raised $1,229,250,000.00 from Junipero Capital and Employee Stock Option Fund.
Member, Board of Directors
2013
Kaiser Permanente is recognized as one of America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. 10 million members, $56 billion revenue, 37 hospitals, 18,000 doctors, $2.2 billion annual investment in community benefits. Founded in 1945, our mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians, specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert medical teams are supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, care delivery and chronic disease management. Our vision: To be the leader in Total Health by making lives better.
The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (TPMG) is a physician-led medical group in Northern and Central California
Lecturer, Department of Management Science & Engineering and Graduate School of Business
2014
Engineering 245: The Lean LaunchPad: Getting Your Lean Startup Off the Ground Finance 582: Chief Financial Officer Leadership
Member, Board of Directors
2012 - 2021
Shutterstock is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations and videos to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world.
Shutterstock offers an online platform that enables its users to find and buy images, vectors, videos, and music.
Member, Board of Directors
2003 - 2019
Booking Holdings is the world’s leading provider of online travel & related services, provided to consumers and local partners in over 200 countries through six primary brands: Booking.com, priceline.com, KAYAK, agoda.com, rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. Market value of $100 billion.
Booking Holdings provides online travel and travel-related reservation and services.
Raised $2,980,561,321.00.
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
2008 - 2011
Oracle is one of the world's largest technology companies, with a market valuation of over $150 billion.
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Chief Financial Officer, Media Measurement and Information Group
2002 - 2004
Nielsen is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy.
Nielsen provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch and buy.
Raised $650,000,000.00.
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
1998 - 2002
DoubleClick is a premier provider of digital marketing technology and services, now owned by Google. The world's top marketers, publishers and agencies utilize DoubleClick's expertise in ad serving, rich media, video, mobile, search and affiliate marketing to help them make the most of the digital medium. From its position at the nerve center of digital marketing, DoubleClick provides superior insights and insider knowledge to its customers.