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Pinterest, Inc sold by Bessemer Venture Partners: $31.18m-Feb 17,18,19
The Company operates a visual discovery platform, where users can create and manage theme-based image collections and share inspirations for their lives. Its visual discovery platform acts like a virtual Pinboard, where people uses pins to share their weddings, home decorating ideas, travel destinations, save images and videos on Web and organize their favorite recipes. Its offered platform is also integrated with image recognition technology, which allows users to take pictures through their smartphones and provides related information and ideas to the object. It offers online marketing services to brands, which allows brands to connect with people on the basis of their shared tastes and interests. It offered Pins include Recipe Pins, Video Pins, Product Pins and Shop the Look. Number of employees : 2 545 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/PINTEREST-INC-57086058/company/
Bessemer Venture Partners (Bessemer) is an American venture capital firm. The firm has over $5 billion under management and invests globally, with offices in San Francisco, Redwood City, New York City, Boston, Israel, and India. In 1911, Henry Phipps, a co-founder of Carnegie Steel, established Bessemer Securities as a family office. In 1974, Bessemer Securities expanded beyond immediate family management and the venture capital firm, Bessemer Venture Partners, was created. In 1975, Bessemer Venture Partners opened an office in Silicon Valley. In 1985, the firm opened an office in Boston and began investing in health and life sciences. In 2003, Bessemer expanded its operations to India. In 2007, Bessemer expanded its operations to Israel. It purchased early stakes in LinkedIn, Box Inc., and Shopify Inc.
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Jeremy S. Levine has served as a Director of Pinterest since April 2011. He is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, which he joined in 2001, where his investment interests include entrepreneurial startups and high growth companies including consumer internet, consumer software and business software and services. Prior to joining Bessemer, Mr. Levine was Vice President of Operations at Dash.com Inc., an internet software publisher, from 1999 to 2001. Prior to Dash, Mr. Levine was an Associate at AEA Investors, a management buyout firm, where he specialized in consumer products and light industrials, from 1997 to 1999. Previously, Mr. Levine was with McKinsey & Company as a management consultant from 1995 to 1997. He currently serves on the board of directors of Shopify, and previously served on the board of directors of MINDBODY, Inc. from 2010 to 2017 and Yelp from 2005 to 2019. Mr. Levine holds a Bachelor of Science from Duke University.
https://investor.pinterestinc.com/governance/board-of-directors/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=c9e8b672-f85e-4f6c-8a1b-f69ae613a155
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Palantir, Inc co-founder sold $53.60m-Feb 18,19,22
Palantir Technologies Inc. builds software platforms for institutions. The Company operates two segments: commercial, which serves customers working in non-government industries, and government, which serves customers that are agencies in the United States federal government and non-United States governments. It has built two software platforms, Palantir Gotham (Gotham) and Palantir Foundry (Foundry). Gotham is a software platform, which is constructed for analysts at defense and intelligence agencies. Gotham enables users to identify patterns hidden within datasets, ranging from signals intelligence sources to reports from informants, and helps the United States and allied military personnel. Foundry creates a central operating system for organization’s data. Individual users can integrate and analyze the data.
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