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Robert Arditi

Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners

Menlo Park, California

Overview 

Robert Arditi is a Partner at BVP Forge, investing in Series B and Seed stages in sectors like Retail, SMB Software, IoT, and Consumer Internet in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in Bessemer Venture Partners and a portfolio including companies like Mortgage Automator and Parsec Automation Corp, he brings a wealth of experience and expertise to his current role. Arditi's career highlights include serving on the boards of various companies and playing a key role in investments in private equity firms like AbsenceSoft and Parsec.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2021 - Current

    BVP Forge is the unique combination of a dedicated private equity firm for growth-oriented, self-sustaining software-enabled businesses paired with access to a renowned venture capital platform. Forge combines BVP’s front-line industry insights, proven growth IP, and legendary executive network with tailored resources for self-sustaining companies and the ForgeEdge™ operational program. Mission-driven teams gain an ally who values their expertise, respects their legacy, and supports them to build a winning culture and business that withstands the test of time. Forge makes $30-$125M majority and significant minority equity investments from a $780M fund in partnership with the $20B BVP venture platform that has backed industry defining businesses such as LinkedIn, MindBody, PagerDuty, Procore, ServiceTitan, Shopify, Toast, and Twilio. For more information, please visit www.bvpforge.com.

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Board Member

    2023

Parsec Automation is the supplier of TrakSYS, the award-winning manufacturing operations and performance management solution.

  • Partner, BVP Forge

    2021

    BVP Forge is the unique combination of a dedicated private equity firm for growth-oriented, self-sustaining software-enabled businesses paired with access to a renowned venture capital platform. Forge combines BVP’s front-line industry insights, proven growth IP, and legendary executive network with tailored resources for self-sustaining companies and the ForgeEdge™ operational program. Mission-driven teams gain an ally who values their expertise, respects their legacy, and supports them to build a winning culture and business that withstands the test of time. Forge makes $30-$125M majority and significant minority equity investments from a $780M fund in partnership with the $20B BVP venture platform that has backed industry defining businesses such as LinkedIn, MindBody, PagerDuty, Procore, ServiceTitan, Shopify, Toast, and Twilio. For more information, please visit www.bvpforge.com.

BVP Forge operates as a private equity firm that focuses on software-enabled businesses.

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2021 - 2022

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2022

  • Investor

    2021 - 2021

Diligent is the largest GRC SaaS provider, with 1M users, across 23,000 organizations, valued at $7B+ and $500 million+ in revenue.

Raised $30,000,000.00 from Clearlake Capital Group and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities.

  • Board Observor

    2021 - 2021

Leading provider of technology solutions dedicated to driving safer, smarter decision-making in the world's most essential industries.

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2021

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