Byron Deeter

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Mr. Byron Deeter serves as Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Mr. Deeter is an Angel Investor. He is an Investor at Syndio, Rainforest QA. He also serves as Board Member at Phantom Auto, Syndio, Shopmonkey, Zylo & Courier. He serves as the Board Member of the National Venture Capital Association. He served as Board Member at Phantom Auto, SendGrid, Gainsight, and Retail Solutions.He is a leading investor in Cloud and the Internet. He co-authors Bessemer's iconic 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and the annual State of the Cloud Report. He served as Board Member at Tile. He created the Bessemer Forbes Cloud 100 and BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index and worked closely with many of the best founders in the cloud world. And now he is the host of Bessemer's newest podcast, Cloud Giants. To date, nineteen of his investments are valued above $1 billion, including ten IPOs and counting. He first raised a Series A with Bessemer Venture Partners back in 2000, as CEO and founder of Trigo Technologies. His company grew into one of the first global SaaS companies, reaching profitability, and was successfully sold to IBM. He foresaw that cloud computing would change the way people built new technologies and how The Cloud would systematically run the world. In 2005, he returned to Bessemer, this time to lead the fund's global cloud practice. He graduated with honors from The University of California, Berkeley. He is a perennial Midas List investor and active board member/advisor to numerous causes including National Venture Capital Association, Pledge 1%, and Cal Rugby. Although he's a four-time Rugby Collegiate National Champion and Ironman finisher, nothing competes with being a father of three children. He served as Board Member at Instructure.