Webflow is an intuitive visual editor platform and hosting platform that allows users to design, build, and launch professional and custom websites quickly and easily, saving companies time and developer resources.

Webflow is an intuitive visual editor platform and hosting platform that allows users to design, build, and launch professional and custom websites quickly and easily, saving companies time and developer resources. Its intuitive drag-and-drop tools and features allow for simple and efficient website creation, making it a tool of choice for developers, designers, and marketers.

US companies spent $521 per employee on SaaS subscriptions in 2021, and it’s continuing to grow. Notion has become a top-rated productivity app over the last few years, with each Notion template acting as a SaaS product of its own, helping users reach high productivity and collaboration.

There are over a billion websites worldwide, and all of them are competing with each other for attention. On average, a user will spend 52 seconds on a website. Vercel is a company building the infrastructure to empower many developers to build these web applications from the ground up with ease of use.

Back in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins realized she didn’t understand why great design could only be achieved with complex software like Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Adobe was the clear market leader in creative software, and Melanie set out to make high-quality design much more accessible by building Canva.

LA-based company Whatnot is a livestream shopping marketplace for collectibles that launched in December 2019. Since then, it has become the most valuable independent livestream shopping company in the US, with sales having grown 20x year-over-year in 2021 and tripling in 2022.

As workers spread out across time zones, there is a growing need for asynchronous work tools to capture effective communication without getting lost in the shuffle. Loom makes it easy to create and share asynchronous video recordings with others within a private content library.

As more collaboration, brainstorming, and meetings move online, Miro aims to be the visual collaboration and digital whiteboarding application that enterprises use to get their work done.

In 2012, Bessemer Ventures invested $13 million in Twitch’s Series B round.

Within 2 years, it was acquired by Amazon for a $970M cash exit. This was one of the biggest acquisitions at the time. Today, Twitch is the market leader in video game streaming.

I remember that feeling when I became one a few years ago.

I love productive note-taking.

My notes are all stored in my information capture system. My knowledge database. My Evernote.

In 2011, Bessemer Ventures invested between $10 million in Pinterest’s Series A round.

Within 8 years in April 2019, the company went public at $19 a share. Today it has over 430 million global monthly active users as of February 2022. 

I am a big believer that using Twitter Lists has the power to make a VC's life easier.

In late 2018 I sent out three applications.

By the end of the year, I got accepted to a couple of them. I did both—one right after the other.

The “Caladian Dream” is where startups thrive. It takes the best of what California and Canada have to offer and combines it to create a startup utopia called “Calada.”

There are much more people who place every day bets than there are venture capitalists (VCs) who place bets on startups. These people are your startup’s future investors and they can be part of your next Community Round.