Sameer Dholakia

Partner at Bessemer Growth. Investor, Board Member, Former CEO. Passionate about building great companies with great people.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 14 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026
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Jul 2026
Fireworks is the fastest way to build, tune, and scale AI on open models. Ship production-ready AI in seconds on our globally distributed cloud infrastructure, optimized for your use case. Fireworks powers production workloads at companies like Uber, Doordash, Notion, and Cursor—delivering 15× faster speed, 4× lower latency, and 4× more concurrency than closed models.
Board Observer
Oct 2025
Our mission is to empower exceptional lawyers. We’re building the world’s first truly collaborative AI for legal professionals: a workspace for boundless collaboration between lawyer ingenuity and machine intelligence. Were serving 1000+ clients across the globe and are backed by Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Benchmark, Redpoint, Y Combinator, and other top investors.
Board Observer
Aug 2025
Fixing housing and healthcare with agentic AI to improve how we live.
Board Member
Aug 2025
Valence has created the widest deployed AI-native coach for enterprise, rapidly changing the face of leadership development, learning, and collaboration at work. Our enterprise-grade, responsible AI applications are trusted by the world’s largest and most secure companies like Nestlé, The Coca Cola Company, General Mills, Vanguard Mutual, Experian, Prudential, Schneider Electric, Applied Materials, ServiceNow and more. Join us to shape the future of work and accelerate your career - www.valence.co/careers Find us in New York | Toronto | London
Investor
Apr 2024
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
Board Member
Feb 2024
Fieldguide is a leading AI-native platform transforming how audit, advisory, and assurance work gets done. Purpose-built for regulated environments, Fieldguide brings professionals and agentic AI together to modernize engagement delivery from planning through close, enabling audit and advisory practitioners to deliver higher-quality work, strengthen client experiences, and unlock growth for the decade ahead. Fieldguide is trusted by leading firms including KPMG, RSM US LLP, Baker Tilly, CBIZ, BDO, Grant Thornton, Forvis Mazars, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), CohnReznick, Wipfli LLP, Carr Riggs & Ingram, Cherry Bekaert, Aprio LLP, UHY Advisors Inc., Weaver, LBMC, Elliott Davis, Frazier & Deeter, Cohen & Co, BerryDunn, Schellman, and Warren Averett, among others. Fieldguide is also the recipient of the Accounting Today Top New Products Award as well as a five time winner of the CPA Practice Advisor Technology Innovation Award. Fieldguide is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Thomson Reuters, and other leading investors. Fieldguide announced its $75m series C in February 2026 and has raised $125m to date.
Investor
Oct 2023
Founded in 2018, Abridge is the first AI-native clinician intelligence platform organized around the patient, built for clinicians, and designed to help health systems coordinate the clinical, financial, and evidence-based decisions for every moment of care. Powered by purpose-built AI for healthcare, Abridge connects patients, providers, payers, and life sciences companies. This year, the platform will support more than 100 million patient-clinician conversations across 300 of the largest and most complex health systems in the U.S. With deep EHR integration, Abridge’s automatic speech recognition and note generation has been validated to capture encounters in 28+ languages across specialties and care settings. Abridge is setting the industry standard for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems. Features like Linked Evidence map AI-generated clinical documentation to source data, helping clinicians quickly trust and verify the output. Abridge was awarded Best in KLAS for Ambient AI in 2025 and 2026, in addition to other accolades, including TIME Best Inventions of 2024 and 2025, CNBC Disruptor 2025, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2025.
Board Member
Apr 2023
EvenUp is the leading proactive AI platform for personal injury law, the first of its kind, built on the largest personal injury dataset. Trusted by 2,000+ firms, EvenUp helps legal teams run casework like clockwork—drafting documents, automating workflows, and maximizing the outcome of every case from intake to resolution.
Investor
Dec 2022
DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 200,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals around the world to make sense of the world and express their ideas. Join us in exploring the possibilities of Language AI!
Investor
May 2022
Jasper is the purpose-built generative AI platform for marketing. Built on a foundation of enterprise trust, Jasper deeply understands marketing, delivering advanced brand control and an intuitive AI toolkit that allow marketers to build apps and workflows to accelerate their success. Looking to connect with our team? Shoot us a DM 👋
Board Member - Independent
Sep 2021
We’re building the operating system for the trades, a critical industry that’s been underserved by technology for far too long. Founded by the sons of hard working tradespeople and backed by top investors, our platform delivers a seamlessly integrated experience that enables thousands of business owners to accelerate growth, drive operational efficiencies and deliver a superior customer experience. We currently serve over ten trades industries, and we’re just getting started. Joining our team means that you’ll have the opportunity to make an outsized impact on the trades ecosystem and world at large. Are you built for the challenge?
Board Member - Independent
Oct 2020
The Auth0 Platform takes a modern approach to Identity and enables organizations to provide secure access to any application, for any user. Auth0 is a highly customizable platform that is as simple as development teams want, and as flexible as they need. Safeguarding billions of login transactions each month, Auth0 delivers convenience, privacy, and security so customers can focus on innovation. Auth0 is part of Okta, Inc.
Board Member - Independent
Dec 2019
In an always-on world, teams trust PagerDuty to help them deliver an optimal digital experience to their customers, every time. PagerDuty is the central nervous system for a company’s digital operations. We identify issues and opportunities in real-time and bring together the right people to respond to problems faster and prevent them in the future. From digital disruptors to nearly half of the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50s, over 34,000 paid and free customers rely on PagerDuty to help them continually improve their digital operations—so their teams can spend less time reacting to incidents and more time building for the future. Dutonians believe that we are a part of a bigger movement of businesses being built to benefit everyone—the customer and the employee, as well as our community. We are go-getters fueled by the fire to reinvent how people and companies work together. We take the lead and get creative to be first in the hearts of our customers. Whether it’s keeping the world on or changing it entirely, Dutonians are fueled by the fire to reinvent how people and companies work together to deliver in real-time, across the globe. Join us to lead uncharted efforts and reinvent how companies run.
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2026
Investor
Jul 2026
Fireworks is the fastest way to build, tune, and scale AI on open models. Ship production-ready AI in seconds on our globally distributed cloud infrastructure, optimized for your use case. Fireworks powers production workloads at companies like Uber, Doordash, Notion, and Cursor—delivering 15× faster speed, 4× lower latency, and 4× more concurrency than closed models.
Investor
Feb 2026
On the journey to be the worlds most trusted driver. With the Waymo Driver, we can improve mobility while saving thousands of lives. Download the Waymo One app and ride today. Waymo reaches out to candidates from official channels only (e.g. directly from @waymo.com email addresses, or through our recruiters or sourcers who are noted as such on LinkedIn). We do not contact candidates about career opportunities through instant messaging apps like Telegram, email addresses from domains other than waymo.com (such as Gmail addresses), direct messages on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or text messages. Visit waymo.com to check out our official job listings. Need support? Send us a message – were here to help.
2025
Board Observer
Oct 2025
Our mission is to empower exceptional lawyers. We’re building the world’s first truly collaborative AI for legal professionals: a workspace for boundless collaboration between lawyer ingenuity and machine intelligence. Were serving 1000+ clients across the globe and are backed by Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ, General Catalyst, Benchmark, Redpoint, Y Combinator, and other top investors.
Board Observer
Aug 2025
Fixing housing and healthcare with agentic AI to improve how we live.
Board Member
Aug 2025
Valence has created the widest deployed AI-native coach for enterprise, rapidly changing the face of leadership development, learning, and collaboration at work. Our enterprise-grade, responsible AI applications are trusted by the world’s largest and most secure companies like Nestlé, The Coca Cola Company, General Mills, Vanguard Mutual, Experian, Prudential, Schneider Electric, Applied Materials, ServiceNow and more. Join us to shape the future of work and accelerate your career - www.valence.co/careers Find us in New York | Toronto | London
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